Serious games as new educational tools

1. Games allow learners to explore environments that are inaccessible to most people (such as the ocean floor or outer space) and gives concrete form to certain abstract problems such as mathematical equations, thus opening up new learning possibilities for students

2. today’s young adults, adolescents and children are very motivated by Video Games and educational applications

3. playing games could constitute a support for learning when traditional teaching methods are too boring

4. Games could provide a way of enhancing engagement and motivation in children with learning difficulties or attention disorders,