Dear Dariusz Prokopowicz , firstly, I worked on simulators development driven for radar operations and air traffic control. Thier purpose was trainning. It was about ten years ago. In that time the name serious game was not used and games were just for fun. But, the way digital games evoluted make possible nowadays to find games being used for teaching in different areas. I saw AR games, as well less sophisticated digital games, being used to teach Physics or Mathematics, History and Geomorfology. Personally, I am working on two games for cultural heritage teaching.

I believe that in this moment, is possible to use games as a support tool for teaching. May be an ideal form of how to use it was not found yet, but I believe it is just a matter of time for it happens.

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To answer this question fist see the job being done by AbleGamers (on US), specialEFFECT (On UK). The thing is: games and computer environment activities are generally the bad guys when thinking in educational and helping proposes, lots of young people dont play with LEGOS right now, they prefer to jump directly to Minecraft which have the same development strategy in kids.

In other way, if teens wanna be pushed to be racional and in long term be able to see that Maths are easy to handle strategy games can give a hand.

The first start sentence on my comment, could give you a hard way to see what you are asking for, disabled people being helped to move and helped in a lot of development processes with gaming and addaptative resources.

In my opinion, computer games bring not only benefit but also enormous harm. We need to study mathematics, physics, biology, and other subjects with using good book textbooks, not computer games. It should be understood that sitting at a computer for a long time damages the eyes and destroys the vigorous activity of the brain, which leads to the degradation of mental abilities. Only the analysis of the read text from the books can be useful. The more we will have computer games for teaching subjects, the more we will get people with degraded psyche. Therefore, we should not place high hopes on computer games as a quick way to study subjects. One thing must be understood: “to know” and “to understand” are two different things. You can know a lot, but do not understand anything. Games can give you only information, but only books can help you understand this information, because the books concentrate attention and make you think, unlike computer games.

agree with@ Gennady Fedulov

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This study investigates to what extent serious games support learning processes.

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/2d7f/20b98562caa2e27952c2319976bb2112b285.pdf

Games have a high potential in motivating people and they can be helpful to try something out in the virtual world without having to fear the consequences outside the game world. Even in most cases learning together with others, who aren't watching a screen, seems to be more effective, it gives the chance to reach more people through different educational strategies. Dynamic content and degrees of difficulty can be chosen individually and keep the Learners in Flow.

That was the topic of my thesis, according to what I've learned and my own opinion, games can simulate experiences that cannot be done in real life or are very difficult to make, not so much for presenting complicated, abstract and concise materials.

It's best to simulate experiences and activities, while books present more abstract form of learning which video games aren't the suitable media to represent.

Didactic methods based on computer games are included in the new education 4.0. Therefore, education systems should be improved in such a way as to make the most of the techniques known for the current technological progress known as Industry 4.0.

On the other hand, as part of the technological revolution of Industry 4.0, other technologies are also being developed that should be effectively implemented into modern education tools so that education systems can be improved and adapted to new technologies that are currently being dynamically developed and implemented in industry. In addition, these new technologies Industry 4.0 should also enrich the work of scientists in research laboratories of universities and schools. Scientific research conducted in the field of new technologies, innovations, etc. should also be correlated with Industry 4.0.

Apparently, we are now living in the era of the fourth technological revolution, known as Industry 4.0.

The previous three technological revolutions:

1. The industrial revolution of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, determined mainly by the industrial application of the invention of a steam engine.

2. Electricity era of the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century.

3. The IT revolution of the second half of the twentieth century determined by computerization, the widespread use of the Internet and the beginning of the development of robotization.

The current fourth technological revelation, known as Industry 4.0, is motivated by the development of the following factors:

- artificial intelligence,

- cloud computing,

- machine learning,

- Big Data database technologies,

- Internet of Things.

On the basis of the development of these IT instruments and technologies, business analytics of companies such as Business Intelligence and the above-mentioned areas have been dynamically developing in recent years.

The technological revolution described as Industry 4.0 is progressing more and more dynamically. The reforms in the school system should follow this progress, so that modern education 4.0 would be fully adapted and correlated with the progress of Industry 4.0.

The technological revolution Industry 4.0 is carried out so quickly that education systems and fields of study, teaching methods are adapted to these changes often with a significant delay.

On the other hand, research conducted in research centers at universities should support the creation of new innovations in technological solutions for the needs of industry 4.0.

Therefore, the education system should be improved in such a way as to create as much synergy and correlation as possible between the current technological revolution of Industry 4.0 and the reformed systems of new education 4.0.

One of these areas of new teaching techniques are the above-mentioned computer games. In many training centers, for example in the field of training pilots, drivers, cosmonauts, aircraft controllers, etc., simulators that technologically use modern computer games are used. Computer games should therefore be used in the process of improving didactic techniques in education systems 4.0.

I invite you to the discussion.

@ Gennady Fedulov I see and understand the point in your statements, but I have to disagree. It depends on the style, the deepness, the complexity and detailedness of the game, just like in case of books. It's false to state that "all books are inappropriate to teach food technology, just because children's books are". For example: the tradicional way of seeing things are "Chess is the best game to improve strategic thinking". But its not. In Chess both competitor knows every information about the opponents resources, opportunities and has a chance to counter them. If that was close to reality, there would be never need for spying in any similar event. In a TCG/CCG game (like, Hearthstone, MTG, MTGA etc...) there are much more variables and options, much more options for diversity for options. On top of that it's closer to reality where the participants dont know exactly what the opponent has, just knows the pool of possibilities. Here comes in the chance to use it to teach strategic thinking, more over statistics, Probability theory. Lets go to other part of the topic.

RPGs have proved successful in language learning where the classic book based school methods failed. In the easter regions of Europe the knowledge of foreign languages is in bad status, but in the last 1 decade, when a generation grown up on video games, it semms to get improved. Moreover the base storytelling of RPGs, MMORPGs worked as practice tools for communication in foreing languages.

RTS games could help teaching process management and human resource management, FPS/MOBA games are improving cooperation and communication.

It's easier for people to learn something, when 1: they dont feel it as burden, but quality time and entertainment, and 2: when they are not just an external viewer, but interactive participant of a process.

Very interesting Paul Gee Vision about connections between Video Games and learning, all teachers should read his book

Paul Gee What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy