The Physical Education Study Program (Penjas) Faculty of Teacher Training and Education (FKIP) Megarezky University (Unimerz) held an outreach with the theme "Impact E-Sports "For Children's Motor Development" which was held at SMK Negeri 2 Pangkep, on Friday (1/12/2023).
This activity is the final assignment of the 2022 Class A Physical Education Study Program students in the Motor Learning course, the aim of which is to visit SMA/SMK equivalents by socializing hot issues that are developing among students, namely regarding students' interest in online game.
This activity received a warm welcome from the Principal, H. Rusli Wahid, who was represented by the Deputy Head of Student Affairs, Muh. Tahir. He really appreciated activities such as those carried out by Megarezky University by inviting students to discuss with each other sharing information and strengthening relationships through the themes raised because many students at SMK Negeri 2 Pangkep also love E-Sports this and even has many teams.
The discussion activity was interesting, because students from various departments seemed quite enthusiastic in asking questions, including what the positive and negative impacts of playing were online game in improving children's motor development.
This was immediately answered by the imam and Eka as presenters at this time online game like PUBG, Mobile Legend, Free Fire, Dota 2, Valoran, and various other types have begun to be competed in various official competitions. And as technology develops, it will not be impossible in the future E-Sports This will be included in the curriculum at various levels of education due to the difficulty of getting open land to carry out physical education learning practices.
“One of the positive impacts of E-Sports This can train the sensitivity of the eye's reflexes so that it can make reaction movements better, fine motorbike skills namely movements based on small muscles that can also be trained when playing online game so it can affect eye and hand coordination when playing," he explained.
Wahyu Munandar, who took part in this activity, also added another positive impact. He added that by playing online game can train soft skills children, including children, need endurance, focus and concentration in completing missions, the ability to communicate with a team is a supporting factor in winning the game and skills in problem solving (problem solving) in completing the mission.
“Here are some soft skills who can be trained while playing online game and of course this activity also has a negative impact where children can lose track of time because they play games for too long, many basic school tasks may be neglected and the most dangerous thing is that children's social activities (direct interactions) will be lost because of too much time playing games. he explained.
"This will have a negative impact on the child's general health, especially since this activity is carried out at night until early in the morning when the body should be resting," he added.
Furthermore, Wahyu also gave tips so that you canmanage time in playing games, gives the body the opportunity to do conventional sports so that the body/body when moving can help other physical development and direct interaction can shape the child's social development to develop. Every year, Megarezky University has an interesting program to attract prospective new students, including at the Anniversary moment they often hold futsal, badminton and E-Sports between students, plus this campus is known to often invite artists from the capital to entertain new students after completing campus introduction activities.
"This is of course an attraction for people who want to continue their education at tertiary level to choose Unimerz as a campus that really follows developments and trends that are of great interest to students," he said.
At the end of the activity the pupils and students immortalized the moment with a group photo in the hope that in the future many students of SMK Negeri 2 Pangkep can join the Megarezky University campus.
