One of the biggest gripes about US students is that they have no sense of geography.
I have a six-year-old who knows every state by it’s shape, so I thought I’d tell you how he learned it: From video games.
First, he was in the car one day searching for a new app on my iPhone. He went to top ten downloads for kids, and found one about states. He didn’t really want to learn about states, but he was sick of playing Angry Birds and Battle Bears and he couldn’t find anything else. Read more