Chess improves holistic, visual thinking, develops the systematic thinking, decision making, problem solving, creative thinking. It is the route to the critical thinking that is needed in the digital age. Chess improves memory and concentration and prevent the specific learning difficulties, like dyslexia, through the neurological harmonization.

1. Dr. habil. Gyarmathy Éva
Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology
of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Strategy Games in the
Education of the
Digital Age

2. Strategy Games in the
Education of the
Digital Age
„I fear the day that technology will
surpass our human interaction. The
world will have a generation of idiots.”
Albert Einstein

3. The third of the children has
diagnosed as suffering
specific learning difficulties

4. Current reply from
the education

5. Different ways of thinking
LITERACY
Logical thinking
Details
Facts, relations
Words, language
Knowledge, science
Recognition
Systematic thinking
Knowing the name of things
Thinking in reality
Acting
Strategy
Sequentiality
AUDIO-VISUALITY
Feelings, intuition
Seeing as a whole
Imagination, patterns
Symbols, images
Philosophy, art
Beliefs
Spatial-visual thinking
Knowing how things work
Fantasy
Recognising possibilities
Taking risks
Simultaneity

6. L e ft R ig h t
g lo b a l
p a r a lle l
v is u a l
S p e e c h
R e a d in g
W r itin g
C o u n t in g
L o g ic
A n a ly s is
R e la tio n s
P a r t s
V is u a lity
S p a t ia l
a b ilit ie s
Im a g in a tio n
M u s ic a lit y
E m o t io n s
H u m o r
M o v in g
W h o le
a n a litic a l
s e q u e n t ia l
v e r b a l
Two types of information processing

7. Different ways of thinking
LITERACY
Logical thinking
Details
Facts, relations
Words, language
Knowledge, science
Recognition
Systematic thinking
Knowing the name of things
Thinking in reality
Acting
Strategy
Sequentiality
AUDIO-VISUALITY
Feelings, intuition
Seeing as a whole
Imagination, patterns
Symbols, images
Philosophy, art
Beliefs
Spatial-visual thinking
Knowing how things work
Fantasy
Recognising possibilities
Taking risks
Simultaneity

8. Different ways of thinking
LITERACY
Logical thinking
Details
Facts, relations
Words, language
Knowledge, science
Recognition
Systematic thinking
Knowing the name of things
Thinking in reality
Acting
Strategy
Sequentiality
AUDIO-VISUALITY
Feelings, intuition
Seeing as a whole
Imagination, patterns
Symbols, images
Philosophy, art
Beliefs
Spatial-visual thinking
Knowing how things work
Fantasy
Recognising possibilities
Taking risks
Simultaneity
Systematic thinking
Strategy

9. CHESS IN SCHOOL SUPPORTED
BY EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT
• The European Parliament
adopted the Written
Declaration “Chess in School”
in 2012.
• The EP’s declaration has an
aim to bring attention to chess
as a teaching tool to schools.and makes kids:
• smarter,
• more critical thinker,
• better problem solver,
• more independent decision maker
• while enjoying themselves.
It directly contributes to
academic performance
STRATEGY

10. Chess is Officially in the
National Curriculum
There are many methods. Judit Polgar’s
method is one of more, but
• chess is a tool and not the aim,
• there are courses for teachers to learn
the method,
• the teachers don’t have to play chess.
STRATEGY

11. chess

12. chess

13. Chess is Officially in the
National Curriculum
• Methodical research is needed
• Longitudinal studies should be started
• Approriate test material has to be created
• The main variables should be identified
STRATEGY

14. Chess is Officially in the
National Curriculum
• the neurological harmony,
• the elimination of the
diagnoses,
• the critical thinking in the
schools and beyond.
STRATEGY
Towards

15. http://www.diszlexia.hu/E
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