Would it help them to study if they were calmer?
Now imagine them actually competing to be the most focussed, calmest student in the class…
One of the biggest challenges facing teachers is the lack of focus that they see in many students, who they say are often
either too easily distracted or too stressed to benefit from the learning opportunities on offer.
We think this explains the extraordinary excitement when we first showed one of our neurofeedback technologies,
Mindball, to teachers here in the UK. For this is a training device where students take control of a ball and move it
towards a goal with their minds (see picture, below), by learning how to become calmer and more focussed.
How could you use neurofeedback in your school or centre?
If you think that neurofeedback could be beneficial in your school, then Vivifeye can help you set up a neurofeedback
programme that matches your exact needs, perhaps to:
* help promote a calmer school environment;
* work with specific students with behaviour issues;
* encourage a class to improve its level of attention.
There are various types of training available, of which Mindball is probably the simplest to use
and the most fun for the students. It can be set up in a couple of minutes, there is no computer to attach or programme to learn or configure
and the students quickly “get” how to train themselves, either with a teacher or mentor present or on their own. Nor
will you need to tell your students to take part – they will want to do that of their own accord!
There are other neurofeedback training devices available as well, such as Thought Technology’s ProComp2,
that monitor the EEG in a wider variety of locations on the head and across a greater spectrum of frequencies. This allows you to develop
much more tailored programmes for specific issues. For example, children with Attention Deficit Disorder typically have
too much slow brainwave activity in the front of the brain and autistic children have too much fast brainwave activity.
The techniques used for this sort of training are software-based and run on standard computer equipment. Vivifeye can help you
select the most appropriate training methods and supply the equipment you will need for EEG monitoring, the software that
analyses the EEG data and the various software training games. We can also provide on-going support with training programmes
and results analysis.
