The years of educational disruption during the Kovid epidemic have a profound effect on the consequences of children’s learning worldwide. Poor socio -economic background children are particularly affected.
Research shows that Children’s cognitive skills are decreasing – Weak memories in children are reflected in spreading attention and reducing flexible thinking skills.
Therefore, some experts are suggesting that special ‘brain training’ programs are used in the school to implement those skills.
Cognitive scientists are interested in testing whether thesis will help train children’s working memory, with brain training programs that offer children with puzzles and other challenges.
The working memory is the staging area of the mind, where the information is processed in the short term. This is the bit that you use when you are struggling through a mathematics or logic problem – the part of our brain that can feel blocked when you cannot find a solution.
“The challenge is that the working memories of some children are limited, and it is a huge hurdle to learn,” Thomas Perry, a social scientist and education researcher, Warwick, a social scientist and education researcher in the UK.
Brain training programs claim to promote thesis brain skills.
German studies suggest that brain training increases children’s attainment
A recent study It was claimed to show that the 12-hour-working memory training program affected children’s attention, IQ and Long-Tartum educational results.
In the study, 572 German school children were 6-7 years in three years. A group of children completed a 12-hour long working memory training over a period of 5 weeks. The children who trained missed time equal to mathematics or German classes. Meanwhile, a children’s control group had regular classes.
He found that the children who completed training had increased the ability to work until one year after training.
Three years after the program, researchers found that trained children had 16% more chances of entering an academic track in secondary school – 46% instead of average 30%.
“I was surprised by the width of profit, not only for working memory and closely related educational subjects. IQ and self-control improving as IQ and self-control improving as IQ and self-control.”
Are brain training apps worth it?
The study trained the children working through a series of various cognitive tasks, including the visuosuosphere tests whether they would also remember where things were on a screen.
He used publicly available apps NooroWhich the study writer claims that it can help strengthen the core learning system of children in the brain.
Perry, who was not involved in the research, said that the study properly measured how the working memory training mediated academic performance.
However, he said, “We cannot make grand claims based on a study. We need to verify the results with various schools and various teachers with large -scale efficacy tests.”
Already, Howyvar, he said that there were indications that teachers who had thought about promoting IQ and significant thinking were important, they were teaching the lesser nouns related to the curriculum.
“It is harmful to some children. For example, underprivileged children are often not immersed at home, so they need real -time in school to learn to study. Reading fixing time working memory training in the long term.”
Research in ‘Brain Training’ is inconclusive
Perry was involved in large -scale reviews of more than 400 separate studies of cognitive training programs at the school. Reviews run by UK education settlement foundationIt was found that studies testing cognitive training in research settings (not in classes) show effective effects on children’s learning. But when they are tested in classes, they show limited results.
Perry said, “A picture is emerging from research that some studies show that working memory training is potentially effective in some settings, but no impact has been shown from other studies,” Perry said.
Perry said, “We do not have an important body of study to say that working is a good thing for the memory training teacher, or how to do it,” Perry said.
For example, large -scale brain training programs were shown in American schools No or very small effects on children’s educational consequences,
Meta-Anellis It is found that working memory training programs do not apply overall cognitive performance or long -term measures of intelligence.
Some experts have said that working memory training programs are not normal for “real world” cognitive skills.
“Important thinking skills, for example, are based on knowledge that is created over time. If you have significant thinking, say, about science, it is not necessarily translating in OTH subjects,” Perry said.
“So, I suspect that we can double the working memory of children and suddenly make them superintendents.”
Edited by: Zulfiker Ebony
