By Michael J Greenwood
Creative learning games can be used to learn any subject from basic color and shapes, to language, to numbers, and much more. Of course, they also encourage the development of either artistic and/or musical abilities or talents which is a valid and worthwhile goal by itself.
Our brains are divided into two hemispheres, the left and the right, and each controls or deals with the different aspects that make us human, make us who we are. To put it as simply as possible, the left side deals with logic and individual details of our world, whereas the right is connected to our feelings and the overall picture of each situation we come across. Our left hemisphere can learn the name of any object we see, and the right will know what it actually does, what its purpose is. Our left hemisphere learns about language and how to read, whilst our right hemisphere deals with shapes and patterns as well as mathematics. Even from this basic explanation of our brain's hemispheres it's very easy to see that there must be a huge advantage in engaging both sides for a child's learning, although a child can become better at using one side of the brain. This is known as hemispheric dominance.
Creative learning games achieve their goal by simultaneously doing a number of things. They stimulate the child's creativity and imagination to encourage development of the right side of the brain. Through doing, seeing or hearing something artistic or musical the right-side of the brain is being used. And at the same time they develop the left-side of the brain by having a strong educational content and aspect to them. By learning and thinking about a subject the left-side is engaged with and used as well.
Another benefit of using and developing both hemispheres of a child's brain by using creative learning games is that it will improve their use of their memory. This must be considered of utmost importance for the child's successful future development. The left-side is responsible for creating memories and the right for retrieving them in the future. Thus, we can easily see that both sides are required to have a practical and useful memory. There is no purpose in having the memory if you can't actually retrieve it.
From the above, it's easy to see that there are very real, practical and desirable effects from using creative learning games for your children.
Creative learning games can be used to learn any subject from basic color and shapes, to language, to numbers, and much more. Of course, they also encourage the development of either artistic and/or musical abilities or talents which is a valid and worthwhile goal by itself.
Our brains are divided into two hemispheres, the left and the right, and each controls or deals with the different aspects that make us human, make us who we are. To put it as simply as possible, the left side deals with logic and individual details of our world, whereas the right is connected to our feelings and the overall picture of each situation we come across. Our left hemisphere can learn the name of any object we see, and the right will know what it actually does, what its purpose is. Our left hemisphere learns about language and how to read, whilst our right hemisphere deals with shapes and patterns as well as mathematics. Even from this basic explanation of our brain's hemispheres it's very easy to see that there must be a huge advantage in engaging both sides for a child's learning, although a child can become better at using one side of the brain. This is known as hemispheric dominance.
Creative learning games achieve their goal by simultaneously doing a number of things. They stimulate the child's creativity and imagination to encourage development of the right side of the brain. Through doing, seeing or hearing something artistic or musical the right-side of the brain is being used. And at the same time they develop the left-side of the brain by having a strong educational content and aspect to them. By learning and thinking about a subject the left-side is engaged with and used as well.
Another benefit of using and developing both hemispheres of a child's brain by using creative learning games is that it will improve their use of their memory. This must be considered of utmost importance for the child's successful future development. The left-side is responsible for creating memories and the right for retrieving them in the future. Thus, we can easily see that both sides are required to have a practical and useful memory. There is no purpose in having the memory if you can't actually retrieve it.
From the above, it's easy to see that there are very real, practical and desirable effects from using creative learning games for your children.
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