Newsletter: Navigating Games for Health and Education

By Alvaro Fernandez | September 30, 2008

Here you have the twice-a-month newslet­ter with our most pop­u­lar blog posts. Please remem­ber that you can sub­scribe to receive this Newslet­ter by email, sim­ply by sub­mit­ting your email at the top of this page. Quick, Are videogames good or bad? That’s an impos­si­ble ques­tion. Good or bad for what? What  spe­cif­ic games are we talk­ing about?…

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Nintendo Brain Training and Math in UK Schools

By Alvaro Fernandez | September 25, 2008

Com­put­er game boosts maths scores (BBC): — “It also found improve­ments in pupils’ con­cen­tra­tion and behav­iour.” — “The study involved more than 600 pupils in 32 schools across Scot­land using the Brain Train­ing from Dr Kawashima game on the Nin­ten­do DS every day.” — “Researchers found that while all groups had improved their scores, the group…

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