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  • BILLXU
    University: Peking University
    Nationality: China
    April 23, 2019 at 12:29 pm

    With the development of social material conditions, education for young students from 5 to 8 years old is drawing increasing attention from the public and there does arise a heated-debated topic about the lessons students should take. While an array of people urge that some lessons, including video games, should be eliminated from young students’ lessons table, I believe these lessons do matter most for the following reasons.

    The first key factor is that these lessons serve as a role to stimulate students’ interest in studying, which is crucial for young students from 5 to 8 years. It is undoubted that interest plays an essential part in the process of studying due to the fact that the interest in a specific field promotes students to have further study in it. Lessons including video games, can achieve this goal by providing fun for students and enabling them to study as well, satisfying their needs of acquiring knowledge and exploring their interests. Take myself for an example. I got exposed to a video game called Assassins Creed when I was just 7. I was deeply attracted by the charming plots, describing historical events in  Roman empire. Ever since I have been enthusiastic in studying history and the experience does benefit me a lot. On the contrary, however, if these joyful lessons were removed, young students might feel bored when studying. So, taking courses including video games is important for young students from 5 to 8 years old.

    The second contributing factor is that lessons, including video games, well match young students cognitive ability, considering at the view of young student’s growth. Several scientific researches have indicated that it is not until 12 years old that students’ cognitive ability begins to develop at a fast speed. In other words, the cognitive ability of young students from 5 to 8 years old is so weak that they might have trouble understanding difficult problems and knowledge. The interesting lessons, including video games, convey understandable knowledge to young students through a joyful way, making the hard knowledge easy to command.   Nevertheless, through other types of lessons have the privilege to teach large quantities of knowledge to students in a  short time, young students are actually more likely to get distracted and frustrated owing to the fact that they fail to understand the knowledge. A recent research launched by THU has suggested that the potential of those who have received lessons including video games and other types of entertainment  can be dug more than 30% compared with whose never have the chances of getting exposed to these interesting lessons. Needless to say, the lessons including video games, do matters for young students.

    Taking all these into consideration, I recommend parents and teachers offer the chances of studying these interesting lessons to young students from 5 to 8 years old. The choice will never fail you.