Re:France to ban mobile phones in primary, junior and middle...
by photojosh on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @08:08PM
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> All it takes to educate is to structure a game such that the lessons being learned are useful in the real world.
This!
There's a game my 7 year old couldn't put down until he finished it. It teaches the concepts of basic Euclidean geometry. There are similar ones for algebra and programming that is a little bit beyond him now, but I'll try him on them again in a few months/year.
He also has made these contraptions with random materials. A hammock out of a bit of surplus netting, for instance. I'm pretty sure hours of Minecraft helped with the desire to create things.
Now I do need to find a gamification of basic logic and critical thinking...
This!
There's a game my 7 year old couldn't put down until he finished it. It teaches the concepts of basic Euclidean geometry. There are similar ones for algebra and programming that is a little bit beyond him now, but I'll try him on them again in a few months/year.
He also has made these contraptions with random materials. A hammock out of a bit of surplus netting, for instance. I'm pretty sure hours of Minecraft helped with the desire to create things.
Now I do need to find a gamification of basic logic and critical thinking...