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As a special education teacher, one of most important goals for students with special needs is to develop problem solving skills and strategies to assist the students when a problem arrives. The problem solving skills theses students described using when gaming are valuable skills. Both students described the skill of preservense when gaming. Alexandra described the strategy of taking a break and attacking the problem later while Bryan described developing more tools to assist him.  Both students described needed literacy skills in learning different ways to attack a problem and learning how to work with others to accomplish a task. Neither student described reading skills to assist in gaming. From my interviews, I am unsure if the two students see the skills they are learning to be valuable. As described in the research this week that with guidance from a teacher, the students could learn additional methods to apply these skills in other aspects of their academics.

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Skills like teamwork are important if you are playing with other people. Someone needs to gather something to meet the objective. Then the other one protects them. If if doesn't work, you keep trying or trade places.

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Being able to connect to other people is fun. Being able to talk to people back and forth. Meeting people from around the world is fun.

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Keep trying. If that doesn't work, you get more stuff to make your character better. Then go back and do the mission again.

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Yes. I make a chat party. We go to support different missions and help each other. You help them get stuff. You talk with other friends to figure out what you need.

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You don't need skills. You just have to have fun.

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Games can get boring. Then you don't play them for awhile. I just play them for too long and then take a break from them for awhile.

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What haven't I asked you about gaming you would like to share?

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I like being able to do whatever. I have no limits.

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What interest you the most about video games (favorite part)?

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I usually take a break and start again tomorrow. If you play too long, your head starts to hurt. But if that doesn't work, you keep trying. That is the fun of games. You keep trying.

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What do you do if a level is hard for you to beat?

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Do you talk (communicate) to others while gaming?

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If I am ask, I play like on the IPad. Sometime on Minecraft if you are in survive mode, then you can divide up tasks. Someone can go get food. Then the other can go get wood.

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Good instinct on where to go. I play Minecraft and that's important. Like if you are stuck because rocks have fallen on you, you need to be wiser and go to the hills instead of going to the swamp. This way you can build stuff to help yourself.

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What skills do you need to have to be a good video game player?

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Bryan is a 12 year male student who is in the 7th grade. He lives in Germany and attends a DoDEA middle school. He enjoys role playing and first person shooter games.

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Alexandra is an 11 year old female student who is in the 6th grade. She lives in Germany and is home schooled by her mother.  Her favorite video game is Minecraft.

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To understand more about students' experiences with video gaming, I asked two middle students five questions about their gaming experiences.