A growing body of evidence suggests that game play has cognitive benefits for young and old alike. Child development experts say that games help foster the concepts of strategy, logic, and planning, and can improve a child’s concentration and sense of spatial relationships. In addition, cognitive workouts provided by board games and puzzles are associated with maintaining brain function in the elderly.

In addition:

• Games Motivate Learners
• Games are FUN with a Purpose
• Games Appeal to all… Continue

Today's curricula assume that our children will consume information, process it, and apply it as directed. However, there is very little that teaches our children just HOW to process that information. Students who are taught HOW to learn rather than being drilled and filled with seemingly disconnected facts and figures are perfectly capable of piecing together information to deduce the correct answers.

Our children need to be equipped to challenge what they hear and see, to analyze ev

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