Two Games That Have the Potential to Enhance Adult Learning

Mind 360 is a program/website that has interactive games designed to improve cognitive functions. The site may be accessed at http://www.mind360.com. I explored this site and it was awesome. I find it applicable to adult education. From my experience, I see older students over the age of 52 enrolling in college for retraining or to obtain their masters degrees.
 Because everyone can improve their cognitive function at any age, whether you are a student, senior citizen, or young adult, your mental fitness can always use exercise. "Games have crossed generations; they have taken their place alongside books and television....(Squire, 2011). Within mind360 the following games are offerred: At school: improve your test scores, increase memory, better homework scores, and learning to enjoy studying.
There are also games that cater to executive functioning. These games focus on building the ability to problem solve, plan, make decisions and adapt to changing situations. There are also game to build logic and reasoning. They include good decision making, abstract thinking and arriving at favorable conclusions. Mind360 allows you to track your progress, play with friends, track your progress with friends, guide you on how to improve and even give detailed results after each exercise. I tried one of the executive games on more than one occasion. At first I scored 86% accuracy, average response time of 2.68 seconds, total solved 22 and my total score was 7540. On my second try, I improved with accuracy of 96, 1.9 seconds, total solved 30 and total score 11580.
Mind360 has appealed to me, and I will certainly introduce it to my Introduction to Psychology class when studying intelligence and cognitive functions. I will also introduce it to friends and colleagues. Memory games may also be accessed at http://www.mind360.com/games/internal/wordseek.

Another game that will enhance adult learning is called Puzzlejuice. These games may be accessed at http://puzzlejuicegame.com/. These games improve your motor skills and brain power. this consist of stacking blocks that turn into words. Rotation of blocks of different colors finds you managing, matching and tapping colors and also finding words. these are enough to keep your brain challenged and fully entertained. There are difficulty levels, along with objectives. There are apps for the ipad and the ipod touch. Puzzlejuice is available and featured by Apple for under $3.00. I would recommend this game to my basic writing and speech communication learners for vocabulary building and constructing orderly sentences.

References

Mind 360 Program: http://www.mind360.com.

Puzzlejuice: http://www.puzzlejuice.com
    
Squire, K. (2011). Video games and learning: Teaching and participatory culture in the digital age.
New York, NY. Teachers College Press.