Brain Age Boosts Students' Math Performance By 50%
I know that lil' polygonal numbah-suckah Dr Kawashima's always flappin' on about how his simple techniques will activate my gray matter, lower my brain's "age" and give me the power to manipulate objects with my mind (it's called a boyfriend), but a new study of 600 students across 32 UK schools makes an astounding claim: fooling around with Brain Age for 20 minutes at the beginning of every day (for nine weeks) boosted students math scores by an undeniable 50%.
"Computer games help flatten out the hierarchy that exists in schools - they are in the domain of the learner as opposed to the domain of the school and the added likelihood of learner place in their own learning being decided for them," said Derek Robertson, LTS's National Adviser for Emerging Technologies and Learning."This intervention encouraged all children to engage and get success in a different contextual framework; one in which they don't know their place."
Not only did boys and girls improve their test scores equally and initially less-able students improve the most, but their interpersonal relationships improved - as well as increased likelihood to take personal responsibility and an improved outlook toward school on the whole.
I wish they'd had magic video games in school when I was a kid: the most we ever got was a slow death from dysentery.
Study: Brain Age Boosts Student Math Performance By 50 Percent [Gamasutra]
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Posted to Hot Stuff, Miscellany, Video Games on 25 September 2008
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