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
g loba lpara lle lvisua l
SpeechReadingW ritingCountingLogic
AnalysisRela tionsParts
V isua litySpatia lab ilities
ImaginationMusica lityEmotionsHumorMovingW hole
analitica lsequentia lverba l
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
