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Recreational Gaming; Forging the Path to Metacognitive Thinking

BY: Tony Muccio The mission to entertain has always been linked to the mission to educate. These immortal words appear in Dr. Brian Goldfarb’s 2002 publication Visual Pedagogy not as the title to a chapter, or as the beginning of … Continue reading

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Stimulating the Learning Process

By Dr. Joseph Luciani Children, especially children and adolescents with attentional difficulties, don’t necessarily suffer from focusing problems; they struggle because of a lower threshold to boredom. The view that children with attentional problems can’t focus is contradicted by these … Continue reading

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Video Games Increase Intelligence

When we think of games that increase intelligence levels, we think of chess, Sudoku, or crossword puzzles. Though these games are linked to increased levels of mathematical and logical comprehension, they do not necessarily improve the decision-making skills that we … Continue reading

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