Online Games

After reading my friend's (Katrina) about online games such as Candy Crush, I must admit that I am one of those addictive Candy Crush Player. In Katrina's post, she mentioned that through games, it helps us to connect with each other. i strongly agree with what she mentioned and would like to add information from my side.

It helps us in a way that when we got stuck in a game, we can simply print-screen it to show to our friends and ask for help.

Below is screen shot of Candy Crush from my phone.

The main page of the game.

 The page before entering to play the game. The star will later indicate your marks collected. In order to get three stars, player must get the amount of scores set.

This shows the example of the game, level 167. In this game, player needs to break all the jellies. 

This game needs friend help by asking them to send us (the player) lives in order to continue playing when we are out life. Also, I realise that when I play this game, I started to get closer to the rest of the players by communicating and sharing the strategies to complete the level in order to proceed to next level.

Besides, this game actually requires thinking skills. people always say that whenever we use ICTs tools, we tend to rely so much on those tools without needing to think critically. But in this game, you will need to think and use some tactic to fulfil the requirement needed in each level. ICTs tools do not make people lazy but to grab people's attention with creative ideas (SchoolNet, 1997). I agree with this statement as you need to grab children's attention first before making them to think or come out with good response.

All in all, there are still advantages in playing certain games.

Reference:

SchoolNet. (1997). Teaching and Learning With ICT. Retrieved on March 12, 2013 from https://www.google.com.my/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&cad=rja&ved=0CEQQFjAD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fschoolnet.gov.mt%2Fictsec%2FICTPedagogyHeads.doc&ei=toBMUebpPIayrAfPioCYAw&usg=AFQjCNFY9B6IYQUzDTQ-yqFfppgNPh454g&bvm=bv.44158598,d.bmk