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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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Keys to Hybrid Education
This article provides tools to motivate students to
to learn, both in a regular class setting and during hybrid education.
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Cognitive functions in relation to executive functions
In this article you can read what Emiel van Doorn believes is the relationship between cognitive functions and executive functions.
In addition, he states that it is impossible to properly support and guide children and young people without having …
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Six lesson ideas to activate prior knowledge in all students
Not all students have the same prior knowledge.
However, this prior knowledge largely determines how the new subject matter is received and processed. It is therefore important to do something with this as a teacher.What exactly is that, …
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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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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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This is how you respond to extreme statements in class
In every class a provocative statement comes up from time to time. The right to free speech is not above the principle of equality and the principle of non-discrimination. In this article you can read how you can respond appropriately.
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A safe environment to make mistakes is essential
In the article you will receive useful tips to create a safe environment in which making mistakes is allowed and accepted.
The accompanying poster contains possible solutions to the statement: 'If I have done something wrong then ...'.
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Lexima Magazine: 2024 edition
Lexima Magazine is a publication of Lexima. With this magazine we inform education and healthcare professionals about prevention and treatment of reading, writing and arithmetic problems, compensatory solutions and ways to work on promoting …
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The student council is the first door to what is on the minds of students: Student participation
Student participation that brings about more than just a drinks machine or the 100 days? Director Patricia Hanegreefs and teacher Gert Goyens of Wico Campus Overpelt explain how the input of their students in terms of content strengthens the …
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Less stress in the classroom: Nine tools
Abdominal pain before a test or presentation. Distracted by a sharp comment from a classmate. Class throws nine simple tools in your lap to get your students' stress down.
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COSMO: Blog about augmented and virtual reality in the assembly sector
A (short) article is posted on this blog every week about Augmented and Virtual Reality in the assembly sector. This blog is linked to the COSMO survey.
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