This depends on the nature of games, social situation and child psychology.

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Thank you Ijaz Durrani for your contribution.

"Educational games have been seen as effective tools for enhancing learners' learning (game-based learning platforms). However, in recent times, we have noticed some problems with the isolation of games users (in general). Can educational games also increase the isolation of learners?"

interesting dr Yacine Lafifi , may be also increase the anger behaviors, so we should increase the social interactions, effective communication, timing the educational games...

Solaiman Elsheikh I agree with you. Your propositions about the improvement of social interactions with the students and increasing communication rate with them are welcome.

I don't think so, but we have to monitor and control how long child plays.

Thank you Mundher Alsaaidi منذر السعيدي for your answer. I think that there are some games that have health problems especially with adults over the world.

Yes, especially when playing electronic games, and sometimes it causes autism to spread to children.

Thank you Abdelkader Mohamed Elsayed for your answer.

I prefer the scientific way to address this type of questions. Instead of pondering whether educational games would increase the isolation of learners or not (for both sides you will find advocates), it may be reasonable to let learners speak of themselves.

If you assume or suspect that any intervention would produce harmful effects on students, you still have the option to adopt an ex-post facto (retrospective) research design. In ex-post facto design, the researcher “investigate possible cause-and-effect relationships by observing an existing condition or state of affairs and searching back in time for plausible causal factors” (Cohen et al., 2007, p. 264). Alternatively, you may search the literature if there were some other researchers who conduct such studies.

Alaa Aldahdouh I appreciate your contribution, which is very rich in knowledge and reasonable. I look for some shared experiences about the subject. Thank you.

The educational gaming can promote a wide range of cognitive skills (the core skills the brain uses to think, learn, remember and pay attention). In comparison to those who don’t play video games regularly, habitual action educational gaming players show enhanced attention, memory, information processing and task-switching cognitive abilities,. As a result, gaming has the potential to promote engagement and an active mind for individuals isolated during the current coronavirus pandemic. but this These games increase isolation by turning it into a daily practice that separates the child or student from the social scientist surrounding him and saliva affects the intellectual and cognitive storehouse, and thus increases social isolation because of the lack of contact with peers and the family.

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Yacine Lafifi

children should be monitored.

Thank you Mohammed Habes for your explanations. I totally agree with you. You have emphasized the advantages of serious games and their isolation problem. I really appreciated your contribution.

Thank you Nirmala S.V.S.G for your contribution.

Thank you Yacine Lafifi

To my experiences, each phenomenon have it's own nature. In one side, yes you are right. In other side, game can also make social isolation more bearable.

You are right Mehmet Firat . I agree with you. Thank you for your contribution.

When the COVID-19 pandemic is over, I think some students won't go back to conventional, face to face education, led by behavior inertia or economic reasons. That's something no one is talking about: computer-mediated schooling has to be taken as a complement to traditional education, not its full long-term substitute.

I agree with you Bruno Castro on the fact that e-learning is a complement to face-to-face teaching. That's why I always say that the best solution for teaching is the mixed model where there are face to face sessions and online learning.

If the educational games are traditional based on jaw and installation, they are good and develop intelligence, but if they are electronic, they lead to the isolation of students.

Dear Dr. Yacine Lafifi ,

This link is very important, it about Education and COVID-19: UN helps children continue their learning:

https://www.un.org/en/coronavirus/education-and-covid-19-un-helps-children-worldwide-continue-their-learning

Thank you dear Abdelkader Mohamed Elsayed for sharing the link

This depends on the nature of games, social situation and child psychology.

Parents need to know how to help make sure their children’s gaming does not become harmful. They should establish ground rules like “gaming should occur only after your child completes their other responsibilities for the day”, “offer positive reinforcement for non-gaming activities”, and “control gaming time by one or two (maximum) hours a day”. Research has shown that video games can strengthen parent-child and family relationships when used in the right contexts.

Playing video games may be a good way to meet basic psychological needs. People who are players should do so in moderation and look after their family’s health and wellbeing. People new to gaming could think about it as another tool to keep healthy - the range of digital games is vast and there are many online guides for beginners wanting to start.In summary games , if indulged in via parental control, could prove socially interactive for children during a chilling LD. Left to themselves , children may surpass the norms and break guide lines that would be psychologically damning. Leading to severe isolation and related disorders. It all depends on parental control.

Thank you T.R. Das for your answer. But, what do you mean by child psychology and its relation with games and isolation?

Yes, I fully agree with you Ijaz Durrani . Thank you for citing the best conditions and circumstances to use efficiently educational games.