Dr Aric Sigman paints a grim picture in his watershed book, “Remotely Controlled” where he argues how over exposure to media and particularly television, is ruining our lives. Sadly, he details how that impact is significant for the young.
The effect manifests perniciously through learning difficulties. Unfortunately, once affected it appears difficult to undo..
Unfortunately, many children are shows signs of ADHD and consequently have restricted attention spans making teaching these children difficult.
Some ideas for educating children with ADHD
Having understood the problem - we stumbled onto a solution – a matter of happenstance. These children need to be active so actively educate.
How this comes about seems to be linked to how we perceive huge things. Some examples are Eyre’s Rock in Australia, The Pyramids in Egypt, and The Eiffel Tower in Paris are some that come to mind.
Big things make us stop and take notice.
In the same way, going from a table top game to a giant game metres in size where you don’t have board pieces because you are the pieces, it becomes “Alice in Wonderland” like. We’ve found it grabs the attention of children and adults.
It’s from this point we invented giant games to educate.
The giant games educational resource
There’s now an extensive variety of these giant games to teach numeracy and literacy. School students live the experience of learning by being physically active and moving and so experience learning in a more participative and memorable manner.
We’ve observed how aboriginal education with giant games worked extraordinarily well because traditionally these stories were told by sitting in a circle and looking at images drawn in the earth. Giant games, with the ability to share stories of Country all seems so much more attention grabbing for those learning.
Fundraising with giant games is already popular with those event planners responsible for school fetes, fairs and community events. Giant games when played at this size involve social interaction; people helping, sharing, laughing and participating. It creates a great atmosphere.
Giant games for education are seen by advanced thinking teaching professionals as a break-through in educational tools.
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