Monday, March 3, 2014

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Video games have advanced learning by leaps and bounds. Things such as luminosity, ipad games, even leapfrog is helpful for both you and old developing minds. Lumosity is an online brain training and neuroscience research company based in San Francisco, California. Lumosity offers a brain-training program consisting of 39 games in the areas of memory, attention, flexibility, speed of processing, and problem solving. Leapfrog creates award-winning educational solutions that delight, engage and inspire children to reach their potential. We know that children learn best when they’re having fun, and that every child learns differently. With solutions that are personalized to each child’s level, every day brings pure learning fun. Lastly we have apple, the inventers of the infamous ipad. A tool used in over 200 ways through apps that work the mind through fun and interesting games furthermore expanding the brain and extracting all it has to offer. Through these few processes among many more you can see that video games when used productively can prove to be beneficial to the user in an educational way while still maintaining the fun element that is oh so curtail in todays society 
Three things i am interested in are Sleeping,because for an individual to obtain their maximum brain and body compactly they must be all around well rested. sleep is also an excellent form of relaxation for the body.secondly we have Video games. Video games are pre judged to only be for leisure time or wasting time. little do most know that they can be extremely beneficial to people when used in the right way. Video games can also be used as a source of hand eye coordination and even educational through the right programs.  last but not least we have cooking. This one is by far one of my favorites, food is not only a critical part to ones survival but it is also a needed trait to have as you become independent and dont live with your parents. With three ver good topics selected  I decided to talk about video games. As previously stated for the means of technology they one fit the criteria for being a forever revolutionizing tool, as well as appealing to the educational aspect with some of its functions and features.

driving question: how can video games be helpful to the people while also increasing their motor skills and learning? Can it help with the amount of information they retain opposed to traditional methods? Can it increase the will to want to learn to expand the learners attention span as well as keep it too?

Thursday, February 6, 2014

passion project 20%

Three things i am interested in are Sleeping,because for an individual to obtain their maximum brain and body compactly they must be all around well rested. sleep is also an excellent form of relaxation for the body.secondly we have Video games. Video games are pre judged to only be for leisure time or wasting time. little do most know that they can be extremely beneficial to people when used in the right way. Video games can also be used as a source of hand eye coordination and even educational through the right programs.  last but not least we have cooking. This one is by far one of my favorites, food is not only a critical part to ones survival but it is also a needed trait to have as you become independent and dont live with your parents. With three ver good topics selected  I decided to talk about video games. As previously stated for the means of technology they one fit the criteria for being a forever revolutionizing tool, as well as appealing to the educational aspect with some of its functions and features. 

driving question: how can video games be helpful to the people while also increasing their motor skills and learning? Can it help with the amout of information they retain opposed to traditional methods? Can it increase the will to want to learn to expand the learners attention span as well as keep it too?