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Dr Aric Sigman paints a grim picture in his landmark book, “Remotely Controlled” where he argues how over exposure to media and particularly television, is detrimentally affecting our lives. Most importantly, he details how that affect is greatest on the young.

The effect manifests perniciously through learning difficulties. Sadly, once affected it appears difficult to undo..

Unfortunately, many children are overstimulated and consequently have restricted attention spans with all the attendant problems this loads onto teachers.

A breakthrough approach for educating children with ADHD

Having understood the problem – we stumbled onto a solution – very much by accident. These children “want to be active” so actively educate.

How this happens is 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, just to name a few.

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 holds the attention of children and adults.

With this understanding, giant games to educate developed.

Giant games for teaching and school fundraising

There’s now a huge choice of these giant games to teach numeracy and literacy. Children live the learning through being physically active and moving and so experience learning in a more participative and memorable manner.

We’ve uncovered how aboriginal education with giant games worked brilliantly because traditionally these stories were shared by sitting in a circle and looking at images drawn in the earth. Giant games, with the brilliant colors and huge size all seems so much more natural for those learning.

 

Raising funds with giant games is gaining popular support with those arranging school fetes, fairs and community events.  Games when played at this size involve social interaction; people helping, sharing, laughing and participating. These games are good for building improved social interaction and cohesion.

 

Giant games for education are seen by advanced thinking teaching professionals as groundbreaking.