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 

2 comments:

  1. This is a very interesting topic because I believe in some cases this can help you with motor skills. Try to explain why you choose this topic and what this could mean to society.

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  2. This is a very interesting topic and i could see that you are going in a good direction here. I believe thats this could definitely help students with their motor skills. Try to go into detail more about how it could actually benefit students instead of just telling them.

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