Can games make your child a better citizen?

What's this? An article on a mainstream news site proclaiming that gaming will not turn our children into mini Charles Mansons? It's true!

According to a story published at MSNBC, the Pew Internet & American Life Project is discovering that online games are positively affecting our children's civic experiences. The research doesn't simply track how much time kids are spending in social games, but it's delving into what the children are doing with that time.

"Video games can provide hands-on learning opportunities for kids that can be much more meaningful than reading a textbook," this article states. It goes on to make an interesting analysis of social interaction in our favorite online games, "Helping a newbie get his sea legs in a game simulates the real-world experience of volunteering. And playing games online can expose kids to people with worldviews that differ from their own - in positive and negative ways."

source : www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26726230/

Definitely it affects

they had to do research to figure this out? it speaks for itself.

gaming has always helped people develop, it just depends what you play that affects how you are developing. for example i loved manhunt, in a sense it made me like gore more. but then again you get people that play sims, that learns them about managing stuf.

whatever we play it affects us almost as if we are the main characters... but note this mostly hapens if its a game you realy enjoy.. well thats my theory anyway