Do you think that children learn social skills by playing on the computer? and why?

Question

I am doing a research paper on this so please answer in as much detail as possible.

Answer 1

Not really...they bring their social skills with them...

If anything the NET begs impersonality as well being rude in many cases because people aren't face to face

It might teach them how to become

netaholics though

Answer 2

Absolutely not. Playing computer games isolates a person. Instead of playing with others (either other children or other adults) they sit in front of a black box and control the actions of made up characters in a made up situation. The only way for a child to learn social skill is by actually being SOCIAL. In a social situation with other people.

Also, I don't think you can necessarily call a person with a lot of friends "social". Anyone can make friends with people their age. The sign of a child with actual social skills is a child who is comfortable around people of all ages. A computer does not teach anything about people. It's like going to the ocean to learn how to climb mountains. Oceans can't teach mountain climbing, and computers can't teach social skills.

Answer 3

No, children can learn many skills from the right games....but social skills are not one of them. Trips to the park, play groups, classes, church groups,  and family are all situations that allow for social interaction, which is how children learn social skills.

Answer 4

No, not really. Social skills are more about reading body language, interpreting and using correct tone of voice, using societal behavioural standards (like saying, Thank you, excuse me, etc.) You can't do that with a computer. You might be able to chat, but the chat is void of intonation, body language, etc., and is very limited.

Jane Healy has a wonderful book called Endangered Minds and in it, she speaks about the effects of screen time on the development of children's social skills. See if you can find it at your library. FANTASTIC book.

Answer 5

yes interactice environment community social sociality society

Answer 6

No, I don't think they do.  Who are they socializing with?  No one.  They are playing games by themselves.

Answer 7

No, to learn social skills you have to interact with someone, and virtual interaction would generally not count. This is because they are not learning what to say to someone in person and how to talk to people in a group setting but in a personal sense. Hope this helps.

Answer 8

Interestingly, I googled "computer use and social skills," and got sites making every claim across the spectrum.

The only thought I had when looking at these sites is that computer use is no better or worse than being trapped in a classroom all day.

Answer 9

No, they learn to be antisocial. They learn to tune out everyone and everything around them. They never learn how to interact with other kids.

Answer 10

yes Kids learn social skills.

For instance if kids are playing a strategical game or counterstrike they get ideas on how to approach in their social life.

For instance, few months before I was playing HITMAN and that   my mother, father and I had to go to a technical fair which was held in another city. In this fair only person can enter with one child. But if I have to take both my mother and father in. I had played a trick with the guard which I had learnt in this game. Guard got confused whether my mother had entered or not.

I feel that by playing these games, we got idea "how to break security" and many more physical behavior of a person. But some guys say that these games give adverse effect on young generation. I would just ask these person that whether the old generation were pure and free from crime.

One more thing these games atleast make us to challenge the existence world and to create good impression on elders about or knowledge. To eliminate crime, we should know about the foundation of crime.

About racing games, I am fond of playing need for speed.

I got huge knowledge from all the version of the games and now I can challenge many of my elder people about the car engines. When my dad will allow to drive car, I am sure that I can drive better than my elders and get better my mileage and at the same time can speed up the car nicely.

I am just of eleven years but you cannot cross me about the knowledge about the cars.

I am an example that I had learnt very much from these computer games

Answer 11

no, because playing on the computer doesn't take any social skills your just sitting in front of a computer screen by yourself...not talking to people

Answer 12

Hi, Freda.

Yes, if they are interacting with others.

Simply, playing anything with others either competitively or cooperatively is known to be an important component of social development. Video games are one such activity.

A few examples from my 11 year-old son's life:

1. Getting together with friends to play console games (X-Box, PlayStation, Wii). My son usually plays with a few friends and their siblings, who sometimes have their friends over, too. He meets new people with a shared interest. They tend to play video games somewhat less than half the time they're together, but then play highly active games outside most of the rest of the time.

2. Playing console games with family members (father and his sister), step-brothers, and extended family (aunt, uncles). Family members, especially the young adult males, introduce their own new games on a regular basis, and teach my son how to play.

3. Playing portable games (Nintendo DS) with school friends, and talking about games. The enthusiasm for video games is widespread, and it's a pretty sure bet that school-age boys can immediately find common ground, talk about their separate experiences, share tips and tricks, and even link up their portables to play together just about anywhere.

4. My son plays two online MMORPGs which allows in-game chat and trading. One of the main differences between the MMORPGs and console/portable games is that he's quickly learned how to spot and handle someone who is trying to take advantage of him. Another is the fun of getting a lot of people (most strangers) to do something as a group.

5. Online game communities. My son also frequents a web site with lots of Flash games, which has built in chat rooms and messaging. For the most part, he isn't interested in chatting, so I can't say this one is a social skills-builder;  he and I play team games together sometimes when he is with his mother.

There was a very interesting interview on an episode of XPlay in which studies of violent gaming were discussed. The findings suggested that males who do not play video games, and those who play only violent games, are more likely to be violent themselves. I interpreted this to mean that either factor was a warning sign that a boy may have anti-social tendencies. They also mentioned they found one indicator for girls, and I THINK it was playing violent video games exclusively, but double check.

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~Os

Answer 13

no. you can be alot more open over the computer then you would be face to face with an actual person. its usually the anxiety of knowing the people who know who you are (like physically seeing you) that kids who play on computers avoid. idk if that makes much sense, but i find it completly different. you learn socail skill personally by actually exprecience. you learn something else through internet realtions.

Answer 14

Quite honestly, have you looked at some of the conversations on the internet?  It's not exactly the pinnacle of social evolution and forward thinking.  More often its a bunch of people calling each other names because they can do it anonymously, without suffering the consequences they'd face if they did the same thing in the real world.

It seems that any social skills a child could learn on the internet could be better learned in a real social setting, without the isolation and the lack of accountability that the internet provides.

Answer 15

only to a degree, social interactions require physical contact, otherwise they're only learning how to talk behind a mask where they never are able to witness any true reactions, or see the good or bad consequences of what they say.

Answer 16

No, I don't think that children learn social skills by playing on the computer. My reason is that they are not learning how to interact with people face to face. There's a big difference between interacting with someone through the computer vs face to face.