Nintendo Brain Games Are Good For Pupils Pupils’ mathematical skills, attendance and punctuality are actually improved by playing Nintendo’s Brain Training at school, a study claims… read more.
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Slideshare presentations of DS experiences
Posted on June 4, 2010 by teachingwithds
The following 2 slideshares are of schools/classrooms that have trialled the Nintendo DS systems in their classrooms. Dawn Hallybone of Oakdale Junior School http://www.slideshare.net/HandheldLearning/dawn-hallybone-presentation Anthony Evans of Peter & Pauls Catholic School http://www.slideshare.net/skinnyboy/nintendo-project-report-presentation
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Oakdale Junior School DS report
Posted on May 31, 2010 by teachingwithds
A great artilce on the Future Lab site featuring teacher Dawn Hallybone. “It’s the only time we are quiet,” quips Kianna, aged 11. And there is no dissent from Dawn Hallybone, her teacher at Oakdale Junior School. In fact the silence in the Year 6 maths lesson is remarkable as the pupils immerse themselves in [...]
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DS Trial – Worongary SS
Posted on May 3, 2010 by teachingwithds
The year 6 team at Worongary SS on the Gold Coast, Australia, have pooled their classroom budgets to purchase 7 DS lites with Brain Training as a trial in an attempt to further improve our NAPLAN problem solving results. To begin the trial we had the students sit a problem solving test and recorded their [...]
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