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For example, the wildly popular game Angry Birds is now teaching children basic coding principles. Video games also hone spatial thinking, reasoning, memory, perception, and problem-solving-- all which come in handy for a wide-range of technical careers. 6. Video games help gauge children's cognitive development and facilitate individualized learning. Traditionally the best way to assess students' progress and abilities were through tests and quizzes, but these only reveal a small sliver of how that student is doing. Video games can offer highly detailed statistics in real-time.
Now a new study from the Pew Internet & American Life Project found that 97 percent of kids played video games regularly. The survey group was composed of 1,102 young people between 12 and 17, and also polled their parents on topics. Boys do hold a slim lead in video game play percentage. While 94 percent of girls now play video games, 99 percent of boys do. Video games may be the great uniter, as race, ethnicity, income, and, for the most part, gender showed little variation. In fact, 7 percent of kids said they didn't even have a computer in their house, but they owned a game console.