To celebrate the impact that this work has had in Scottish schools and to test the ability of teachers and pupils alike we decided to have the Dr Kawashima (how fast can you do your sums) Challenge at this year’s Scottish Learning Festival? This event was supported by Nintendo and they kindly donated 30 […]

LTS Dr Kawashima Summary Report
As a result of a small scale intervention that we carried out in some classrooms last year we managed to fund an extended study to explore further the findings that we identified in relation to mental maths attainment and academic self-concept as a result of playing Dr Kawashima’s Brain […]

As part of this year’s Consolarium inspired Gamezone Challenge at this year’s SLF we have the DR Kawashima Challenge: How fast can you do your sums? Delegates are invited to take the x20 challenge within this game and see if their score gets on the leaderboard! If a score features in the top eight by […]

This week has seen my colleague from the University of Dundee, Dr David Miller, carrying out the post-tests in participating schools in Dundee with me making my way to Stornoway to carry out those in the Western Isles. The life of a Development Officer for LTS is not an easy one I may add what […]

Time flies when you’re playing Brain Training in the classroom it seems. The extended research study into the use of Dr Kawashima’s Brain Training that I am doing with Dr David Miller from the University of Dundee is coming to an end. I can hardly believe that it’s been ten weeks since this began and […]

The past two weeks have been rather hectic, with the promise of more of the same next week. I’m writing this post from the Western Isles EDC offices in Stornoway having completed another leg of the LTS extended Dr Kawashima project.
Last year we carried out a small-scale intervention using Nintendo DS & Dr Kawashima in […]

What was the name of the first dog in space? You don’t know…well the children in a P.2 class in Aberdeenshire do and they were able to tell me all about him. (Answer at the end of this blogpost!)
A previous blogpost talked of the Nintendogs project that we  initiated in two P.2 classes up in […]

Some time ago I received a very interesting proposal from the team in Aberdeenshire for a games-based-learning project that we could undertake in a couple of P.2 classrooms. The idea was to use the popular Nintendogs game for the Nintendo DS as a the context through which a cross-curricular project could be developed. What is […]

Move over Dr Kawashima there is a new Professor in town! Yes, Professor Kageyama is about to hit your DS screen with his Maths Training programme. Due out next week this ‘game’ is similar to Dr Kawashima in the sense that it is meant to be played for a short time each day. As the […]

The Consolarium’s work in using the Nintendo DS in the classroom has been lucky enough to garner a lot of media recognition this week. This really came about as a result of our invitation to Stephen Heppell’s ‘Be Very Afraid’ event and also our invitation frm ELSPA to present our work at the London […]