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Martin Burrett

Evidence of changes to children's brain rhythms following 'brain training' - 0 views

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shared by Martin Burrett on 26 Aug 16 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 26 Aug 16
     
    New research questions the strong claims that have been made about the benefits of 'brain training' - enhanced mental skills, a boost to education, improved clinical outcomes and sharper everyday functioning. This new study found evidence that 'brain training' changed brain signalling but no indication of other benefits...
Fred Delventhal

Fun 4 The Brain - educational games for addition, subtraction, multiplication, division... - 1 views

www.fun4thebrain.com/index.html

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shared by Fred Delventhal on 04 Apr 09 - Cached
  • Fred Delventhal on 04 Apr 09
  • Fred Delventhal on 04 Apr 09
     
    All games here were made by Exuberant Games. Each game goes through important information for a certain subject matter for grades Kindergarten through 6th grade. The math games are great if you need to review your math facts for addition, subtraction , or division. Be sure to check out our new games for other subjects. * English games to review parts of speech * Reading games to help learn sight words * Science tutorials and games are coming soon! via http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2009/04/fun-4-brain-great-educational-games.html
Ted Sakshaug

BrainBashers : Puzzles and Brain Teasers - 0 views

www.brainbashers.com/index.asp

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shared by Ted Sakshaug on 29 Apr 09 - Cached
  • Ted Sakshaug on 29 Apr 09
     
    an exciting collection of brain teasers, puzzles, riddles, games and optical illusions. With thousands of brain teasers and puzzles, over one hundred awards, BrainBashers is updated with optical illusions and games regularly and has 5 new puzzles added every other week.
Julie Shy

team building activities, ideas, games, business games and exercises for team building,... - 14 views

www.businessballs.com/freeteambuildingactivities.htm

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shared by Julie Shy on 01 Jun 12 - Cached
  • Julie Shy on 01 Jun 12
     
    Some really good activities here! Free team building games and exercises ideas to warm up meetings, training, and conferences. Team building games and activities are useful in serious business project meetings, where games and activities help delegates to see things differently and use different thinking styles. Games and exercises help with stimulating the brain, improving retention of ideas, and increasing fun and enjoyment.
Megan Black

GirlsGoTech.org - The Games - 14 views

www.girlsgotech.org/games.html

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shared by Megan Black on 06 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Megan Black on 06 Mar 10
     
    Girls Go Tech is from the Girl Scouts and has a super groovy mandala maker, a cryptic code game, a game to compose digital music, and a mixed messages game to work both sides of the brain.
Martin Burrett

Wondermind - Play games & explore your brain - 4 views

wondermind.tate.org.uk

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shared by Martin Burrett on 03 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 03 Feb 12
     
    A beautifully made science site of games to teach you about the brain. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Science
Fred Delventhal

Games for kids to play online | Audio stories for children | Fun for your brain! - 0 views

lightupyourbrain.com

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shared by Fred Delventhal on 06 Jun 09 - Cached
  • Fred Delventhal on 06 Jun 09
     
    Hi! I'm Chuck Brown...and that's my face over there to the right (well, it's not exactly my face... but people think it looks a lot like me!). I'm your host for this site. Light Up Your Brain is about inspiration, creativity, and the fun of being a kid. I've assembled some great audio stories, games and links to outside resources.
Brian C. Smith

The Creativity Crisis - Newsweek - 15 views

www.newsweek.com/...the-creativity-crisis.html

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shared by Brian C. Smith on 11 Jul 10 - Cached
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      anonymous on 19 Jul 10
       
      If you've ever seen or heard Raif Esquith speak then you know how much he values music with young children. Watch this clip: http://www.tubechop.com/watch/79846
  • The lore of pop psychology is that creativity occurs on the right side of the brain. But we now know that if you tried to be creative using only the right side of your brain, it’d be like living with ideas perpetually at the tip of your tongue, just beyond reach
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      Brian C. Smith on 26 Jul 10
       
      Hello, Mr. Pink. Are you reading?
  • those who diligently practice creative activities learn to recruit their brains’ creative networks quicker and better. A lifetime of consistent habits gradually changes the neurological pattern.
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  • The home-game version of this means no longer encouraging kids to spring straight ahead to the right answer
  • The new view is that creativity is part of normal brain function.
  • “As a child, I never had an identity as a ‘creative person,’ ” Schwarzrock recalls. “But now that I know, it helps explain a lot of what I felt and went through.”
  • In China there has been widespread education reform to extinguish the drill-and-kill teaching style. Instead, Chinese schools are also adopting a problem-based learning approach.
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  • Bill Guinee on 13 Jul 10
     
    Very interesting article from Newsweek about how creativity works in the brain, and how it can be trained in an educational setting. It describes a "crisis" trend where creativity scores in America are decreasing.
Martin Burrett

The Great Brain Experiment - 8 views

www.thegreatbrainexperiment.com

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shared by Martin Burrett on 27 Dec 13 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 27 Dec 13
     
    This is a fun Android and Apple app from University College London were players complete a range of games to exercise the brain cells and provide researchers with real, but anonymous data to use in their study. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Science
Martin Burrett

Axon - 2 views

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shared by Martin Burrett on 04 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 04 Sep 12
     
    A logic science game designed to teach about neutrons and the brain. Connect the neutrons to score points a micrometre at a time. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Science
Fred Delventhal

Brain Pop K-3 Games - 0 views

www.brainpopjr.com/games

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shared by Fred Delventhal on 10 Mar 09 - Cached
  • Fred Delventhal on 10 Mar 09
     
    These are free. @mslinch: FYI: all of the BrainPOP Jr. K-3 games are free. :) http://www.brainpopjr.com/games/ #gr8t
Michael Walker

Build Your Own Brain Gym: 100 Tools, Exercises, and Games | Healthcare Administration D... - 17 views

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shared by Michael Walker on 20 Jul 10 - Cached
  • Michael Walker on 20 Jul 10
     
    Great enrichment activities
Martin Burrett

Brain Games: Play Free Puzzle Games Online, Free Puzzles - 5 views

www.proprofs.com/games

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shared by Martin Burrett on 31 May 12 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 31 May 12
     
    A site with logic games, word searches, crosswords, sudoku and many other puzzles. You can create your own and embed them onto your site. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+%26+Web+Tools
Maggie Verster

Brain Games & Brain Training - Lumosity - 11 views

www.lumosity.com

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shared by Maggie Verster on 01 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Maggie Verster on 01 Oct 09
     
    # Shown to improve memory and attention # Detailed feedback and improvement tracking # Fun and easy: full workout in less than 10 minutes/day # Start your training today
  • Maggie Verster on 01 Oct 09
     
    # Shown to improve memory and attention # Detailed feedback and improvement tracking # Fun and easy: full workout in less than 10 minutes/day # Start your training today
Martin Burrett

A Game A Day - 4 views

www.agameaday.com

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shared by Martin Burrett on 02 May 12 - Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 02 May 12
     
    Get a different educational Java game every weekend to try in your class. There are two levels of difficulty to choose from. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Educational+Games
Vicki Davis

Anatomy Arcade - 10 views

anatomyarcade.com

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shared by Vicki Davis on 15 Apr 13 - Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 15 Apr 13
     
    Anatomy arcade is such a great website. I love whack-a-bone for learning the bones in the body. They also have Poke a muscle, and match a brain and a new digestive jigsaw. They have apps now as well with whackabone for the ipad. Great games for learning anatomy - share with your favorite teacher.
Cara Whitehead

Summer Program - 2 views

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shared by Cara Whitehead on 12 May 13 - No Cached
  • Cara Whitehead on 12 May 13
     
    VocabularySpellingCity has a new summer word study program that allows children to sharpen academic skills as they play. These simple assignments are a daily workout for the brain, building literacy skills such as vocabulary, spelling, and writing.
Vicki Davis

Home - Gymnasium for Brain - 22 views

www.gymnasiumforbrain.com

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shared by Vicki Davis on 01 Dec 11 - Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 01 Dec 11
     
    A website recognized by the Australian Education association and american Library association. As you look for activities to improve thinking - this website has puzzles, and activities that are bound to have you thinking and talking. There's also a kids corner. If you like game based learning, there are some great tools here. "A gym dedicated to the wellness of the mind."
Ted Sakshaug

Fuel the Brain | Educational Resources and Games - 16 views

www.fuelthebrain.com

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shared by Ted Sakshaug on 02 Jun 10 - Cached
  • Ted Sakshaug on 02 Jun 10
     
    It is our dream that teachers won't have to hunt and search for activities for hours or spend a fortune on materials. We hope to continue to build this site until it is a comprehensive collection of teaching materials across several grades. The site currently focuses on kindergarten-third grade objectives. We have begun with mathematics but will continue to create across subjects.
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