Surprising Facts about Learning
1. Sometimes allowing your children to play video games can be helpful. A study by Cheryl K. Olson shows that playing scary and violent video games help children master their fears in real life. Her study was featured in the Review of General Psychology, it suggests that there are a lot of psychological benefits to video games. In boys who struggle with stress, fear, and anger- negative emotions that can have violent consequences; video games acted as a safe alternative for the release of pent up emotion. There were other findings as well, comprising the fun of "unreality"- experimenting with a world where natural laws are suspended, plus the fun of challenge, mastery, and playing with other identities. These finding reveal that video games can be an alternate way to release negative emotion, and help children alleviate their innate desire for risk and adventure.
2. It's always fun to incorporate creative arts in teaching. The Southwest Educational Developmental Laboratory put out a classroom math lesson that included a rap song! It is not all that surprising that rap music helps with mathematical concepts; the steady rhythm and the cadence of rhyming words make the song easier to remember. The children can learn the song, and eventually the mathematical rule. Music is a proven method to aid learning, it activates the auditory system that allows the child to use another of their five senses to learn.
3. Most people would see daydreaming as a waste of time and sometimes a lack of the ability to focus, but recent studies have found the opposite is true. Daydreaming has many benefits, and one of them is associated with longer attention span, increased resolve, creativity, and even a higher IQ.
1. Sometimes allowing your children to play video games can be helpful. A study by Cheryl K. Olson shows that playing scary and violent video games help children master their fears in real life. Her study was featured in the Review of General Psychology, it suggests that there are a lot of psychological benefits to video games. In boys who struggle with stress, fear, and anger- negative emotions that can have violent consequences; video games acted as a safe alternative for the release of pent up emotion. There were other findings as well, comprising the fun of "unreality"- experimenting with a world where natural laws are suspended, plus the fun of challenge, mastery, and playing with other identities. These finding reveal that video games can be an alternate way to release negative emotion, and help children alleviate their innate desire for risk and adventure.
2. It's always fun to incorporate creative arts in teaching. The Southwest Educational Developmental Laboratory put out a classroom math lesson that included a rap song! It is not all that surprising that rap music helps with mathematical concepts; the steady rhythm and the cadence of rhyming words make the song easier to remember. The children can learn the song, and eventually the mathematical rule. Music is a proven method to aid learning, it activates the auditory system that allows the child to use another of their five senses to learn.
3. Most people would see daydreaming as a waste of time and sometimes a lack of the ability to focus, but recent studies have found the opposite is true. Daydreaming has many benefits, and one of them is associated with longer attention span, increased resolve, creativity, and even a higher IQ.