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Online games for kids top list: free educational flash games

Posted by: Luk on: December 2, 2009

Nowadays Kids spend a lot of their time on internet, that’s why free online games can be a great educational tool and a precious resource for teachers and educators.
For this reason I decided to post this free online games top list, to flag some interesting and educational flash games websites found online. This is [...]

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Ecofriendly gifts to teach ecology to our kids

Posted by: Luk on: September 24, 2009

Ecofriendly gifts could be a great way to teach children an ecologic view.
I think that everyone of us knows how important are renewable energies to reduce the earth pollution and try to preserve our ecosystem.
Now days there are a lot of  ecofriendly gifts that work with solar energy and can be given to kids to [...]

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Games news: chess and education in Germany

Posted by: Luk on: September 11, 2009

Germany,
This summer instead of going on holidays, a group of researchers from the University of Trier in Rhineland-Palatinate, studied the experimental introduction of chess in elementary school for the new academic year.
The results show that 6 years old children that have begun to learn how to play chess learn more easly not only math but [...]

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Classic board games memories

Posted by: Luk on: September 8, 2009

Once upon a time families used to have fun playing classic board games, this was before the tv and the digital revolution where fun and games are always condensed into a screen.
Some of us seem really nostalgic for those happy days, when families had fun together sitting around a table and playing classic board games, [...]

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Games news: the “baby glutton”, a nice doll or a bad toy?

Posted by: Luk on: August 28, 2009

WASHINGTON
Americans little girls learn how to be a mother too soon with the new Baby glutton, a doll that simulate the breast-feeding with sounds and mouth movements. This toy, produced by Berjuan, a spanish company, comes with a special bra for girls to make the playing mother experience as real as possible.
The doll as special [...]

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Life skills games

Posted by: Luk on: July 29, 2009

When a parent is looking for a gift for his kid, he should find one of those clever games that will help him build his logical and creative mind.
Parent’s favourite choice in this sense has to be a life skill game such as an educational board game, a quiz game or a construction toy.
Kids love [...]

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Math games for children

Posted by: Luk on: July 18, 2009

All the games are based on math, there’s not  sport match without a score or  a dice without numbers.
Board and card games need math and players have to do different calculations during a game.
For this reason math games can be, especially for children, a great Mathematics Teaching Method.
Every educator knows how difficult is teaching math [...]

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How to make math more interesting for kids

Posted by: Luk on: July 4, 2009

Some children hate math, was the same for me when I was a kid, like many other classmates of mine I didn’t like numbers, equations and when  our teachers explained  formulas and wrote exercises on the board my mind was always somewhere else.
I think the real problem is that math appears boring to the kids [...]

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Games from a psychological prospective

Posted by: Luk on: June 21, 2009

On a cognitive level the game is important for memory improvement, concentration, attention.
It’s a matter of fact that a poor recreational activity can compromise the cognitive development of a child.
Swiss psychologist Piaget proposed a classification of games types based on the structure of the game itself and at the same time on the genetic evolution [...]

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Clever Games and the social development of the child

Posted by: Luk on: June 18, 2009

Games are very important during the child’s growth, and for this reason is very important promote clever gaming activities to our kids. On a social level, children start to develop their gaming activities in three different stages:

Individual games; is typical of new born babies  and it doesn’t involve any social interaction;
Collateral games, children between [...]

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