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Handwriting promotes learning more than typing, scientists claim
A Norwegian team of scientists has investigated the influence of handwriting and typing on brain activity and memory abilities.
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Story Dice: Writing stories with dice
With StoryDice's digital story dice, your students can determine the content and order of a storyline by digitally rolling the dice.
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Tim Surma with a crash course in cognitive psychology
Tim Surma is research manager of the Expertise Center ExCEL and can draw on twenty years of experience in teaching in secondary education. He also co-wrote the book Wijze Lessen: twelve building blocks for effective didactics.
In 2018 he was a guest …
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Dealing with weak executive functions
Executive functions are less developed in people with ADD. This is referred to as 'weak' executive functions.
In the article you can read more about executive functions, dealing with weak EF and training EF.
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Learning with the Leitnerbox: Explanation
How can you learn useful concepts, sums or other reproduction knowledge? Active and spaced repetition, also called retrieval and spacing, is crucial for this. How can you approach this as a pupil or student? A good way is to use the Leitnerbox. A …
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More than smart: Review of book
Lieven Coppens discusses the book More than smart - Talent-oriented guidance of gifted children and young people.
This book by Corry Wolters is about how one can coach and guide the talents of gifted children and young people, preferably before …
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Actua in your language lessons
You can also teach your students reading and listening skills and vocabulary by working with current events.
The following sites provide news items adapted to the level of children and young people.
French
For the French course you can visit …
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Podcast: Improve your students' online information skills with these tips
Searching for information online is becoming increasingly important. What can schools do to improve students' online information literacy?
More and more research shows that students are comfortable with media and devices. At the same time, they do not …
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Boost your foreign languages with Netflix
Blog post explaining how Language Learning with Netflix works.
Via this extension you can play subtitles on Netflix in two languages in a Chrome browser and look up vocabulary in a foreign language.
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Ten tips to learn
In recent years, we know more and more about the brain and learning. This knowledge is useful to have and to share with your students. That way you can teach them to learn.
To help with that, this article contains a poster with ten learning tips that …
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Help students to reflect on their work
The students deliver their task in the appropriate drawer:
- green (went very well),
- yellow (it took some effort),
- red (too difficult).
The students do self-assessment via this return system with three return containers.
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The System of the Houses
Kassim, a teacher from a school in Rwanda, introduced The System of the Houses there.
There the students are not only divided into grades, but also into houses , each with their own color.
Jan Royackers wrote an article about this.
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