Tag Archives: BrainWare Safari
01
Jun

Brain Games: Pattern Memory

This is a classic word scramble game. In this game you will be given a set of scrambled letters, and you are required to rearrange them into a meaningful word. If you are stuck, you can click the hints button to get the meaning of the word.  Find more games – added weekly to this [...]

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11
May

Stop Committing Children to Virtual Wheelchairs – by Roger Stark

For the first time since 2003, 4th graders failed to make any progress in reading on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).  Why improvement before and none since?  The push with NCLB (No Child Left Behind) raised the concept of accountability, measuring and providing consequences for not meeting Adequate Yearly Progress.  What this suggests [...]

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23
Apr

2/3 of Achievement Gap Occurs During the Summer …

The Washinghton Post had a great story about summer and student's ability to regress during this time  It's called "the summer brain drain" because during those long, hot months away from school, kids supposedly forget a lot of what they had learned in class.  Read More The good news is that you can have your [...]

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17
Mar

BrainWare Safari Program at Bailly helps pupils cultivate cognitive skills

Gary Community School Corp. educators are hopeful a new software designed to boost cognitive skills will in turn increase student achievement. Some 165 students at Bailly Preparatory Academy spend about 45 minutes a day on BrainWare Safari. The software instituted at Bailly in January reinforces cognitive skills such as attention, memory and visual processing and [...]

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27
Jan

BrainWare for Professionals

BrainWare Safari for Professionals Cognitive Skills Defined Cognitive Skills Strengthened by BrainWare Research Summary of BrainWare Implementations in Schools Cognitive Skills and Math Cognitive Skills and Reading A Study of the Effectiveness of Cognitive Skill Therapy in Video Game Format Dr. White, Superintendent of Indianapolis Public Schools provides Letter of Recommendation for BrainWare Safari   [...]

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17
Dec

BrainWare Safari Research

From BrainWare: Several studies have been completed using BrainWare Safari in different settings to demonstrate its effectiveness.   Each study or case-study was performed using evaluation methods that were suitable for the setting, some were evidence-based and some were case studies.  In each study, the recommended use of BrainWare Safari was 30 to 60 minutes, 3 [...]

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