What’s Your Brain Age?
For decades Nintendo has been exercising your thumbs. Now they’re going to exercise your mind.
Their recent game is called Brain Age and is surely something we teachers can’t be unhappy with. In their own words:
What is Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day?
Exercise is the key to good health, both for body and mind – and now there’s finally a way to make mental exercise simple, fun, even competitive. Inspired by the work of prominent Japanese neuroscientist Dr. Ryuta Kawashima, Brain Age features activities designed to help stimulate your brain and give it the workout it needs like solving simple math problems, counting people going in and out of a house simultaneously, drawing pictures on the Nintendo DS touch screen, and reading classic literature out loud.
You can read about Brain Age and even the scientific Neurological explanation for how it all works.
There are some interesting possibilities here for mobile learning – in fact it IS mobile learning. Now all I need is to find a teenager with a Nintendo and I can check my own Brain Age and go for some improvement!
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