ChesspalacePolgar Gyarmathy

Dr. habil. Gyarmathy ÉvaInstitute for Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology

of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Strategy Games in the Education of the

Digital Age

Strategy Games in the Education of the

Digital Age

„I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots.”

Albert Einstein

The third of the children has diagnosed as

suffering specific learning difficulties

Current reply from the

education

Different ways of thinking

LITERACY

Logical thinkingDetails

Facts, relationsWords, language

Knowledge, scienceRecognition

Systematic thinkingKnowing the name of things

Thinking in realityActing

StrategySequentiality

AUDIO-VISUALITY

Feelings, intuitionSeeing as a whole

Imagination, patternsSymbols, imagesPhilosophy, art

BeliefsSpatial-visual thinking

Knowing how things workFantasy

Recognising possibilitiesTaking risksSimultaneity

Left R ight

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SpeechReadingW ritingCountingLogic

AnalysisRela tionsParts

V isua litySpatia lab ilities

ImaginationMusica lityEmotionsHumorMovingW hole

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Two types of information processing

Different ways of thinking

LITERACY

Logical thinkingDetails

Facts, relationsWords, language

Knowledge, scienceRecognition

Systematic thinkingKnowing the name of things

Thinking in realityActing

StrategySequentiality

AUDIO-VISUALITY

Feelings, intuitionSeeing as a whole

Imagination, patternsSymbols, imagesPhilosophy, art

BeliefsSpatial-visual thinking

Knowing how things workFantasy

Recognising possibilitiesTaking risksSimultaneity

Different ways of thinking

LITERACY

Logical thinkingDetails

Facts, relationsWords, language

Knowledge, scienceRecognition

Systematic thinkingKnowing the name of things

Thinking in realityActing

StrategySequentiality

AUDIO-VISUALITY

Feelings, intuitionSeeing as a whole

Imagination, patternsSymbols, imagesPhilosophy, art

BeliefsSpatial-visual thinking

Knowing how things workFantasy

Recognising possibilitiesTaking risksSimultaneity

Systematic thinking

Strategy

CHESS IN SCHOOL SUPPORTED BY EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT

• The European Parliament adopted the Written Declaration “Chess in School” in 2012.

• The EP’s declaration has an aim to bring attention to chess as a teaching tool to schools. and makes kids:

• smarter,• more critical thinker,• better problem solver, • more independent decision maker• while enjoying themselves.

It directly contributes to academic performance

STRATEGY

Chess is Officially in the National Curriculum

There are many methods. Judit Polgar’s method is one of more, but

• chess is a tool and not the aim,• there are courses for teachers to learn

the method,• the teachers don’t have to play chess.

STRATEGY

chess

chess

Chess is Officially in the National Curriculum

• Methodical research is needed• Longitudinal studies should be started• Approriate test material has to be created• The main variables should be identified

STRATEGY

Chess is Officially in the National Curriculum

• the neurological harmony,• the elimination of the

diagnoses,• the critical thinking in the

schools and beyond.

STRATEGY

Towards

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