Activity Description
A firefly challenge has just begun! A game of observation and memory awaits you!Children need to engage their attention and working memory to achieve the goals of the game. Through this activity, they practice attention, working memory, observation skills, and visual motor coordination. Children also become familiar with the use of new technologies and gain proficiency in using peripheral devices.
Targeted cognitive skills
- Short Term Memory: The ability to the reproduce, recognise, or recall a limited amount of material after a period of about 10 to 30 seconds.
- Working Memory: The ability to hold information in consciousness for adaptive use. This can include information from all sensory modalities, verbal and nonverbal ones. Working memory is conceptualized to include two separable components: maintenance of information and manipulation of information. Maintenance of information includes memory for verbal information, spatial information and other information (including emotional) across multiple sensory channels. Manipulation of information is the process of operating on information stored in working memory storage.
- Decision making: The cognitive process of choosing between two or more alternatives, ranging from the relatively clear cut (e.g., ordering a meal at a restaurant) to the complex (e.g., selecting a mate).
- Inhibition: The process of restraining one’s impulses or behavior, either consciously or unconsciously, due to factors such as lack of confidence, fear of consequences, or moral qualms.
- Spatial orientation: The ability to perceive and adjust one’s location in space in relation to objects in the external environment.
