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Reading and language education: Inspiration day
As part of the Reading Offensive, Flanders Literature and Everyone Reads worked with ninety schools on two effective approaches to promoting reading: interactive reading aloud in nursery and primary education and author residencies in …
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Spelling in the spotlight: Online inspiration session
We zoom in on the remediation pillar of the integrated approach to reading problems.
The negative PIRLS results made full media coverage. The reading level of our Flemish ten-year-olds reached a dramatic low. Will you help tackle this?
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New series of Book Seeker webinars
During the 2023-2024 school year, Elke Leest, the organization behind Boekenzoeker, is organizing a third series of webinars. They familiarize professionals and parents with the recent range of books for children and young people.
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Media Scanners: Workshop
Information bubbles, propaganda, censorship... These are phenomena that are as old as our (visual) language. But how do you recognize them? How do we avoid polarization? The Media Scanners workshop introduces students to sources from the Second …
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Long live bamboo sticks
Bamboo is a technique developed by artist Antoon Versteegde. Bamboo sticks are connected with elastic bands to create large works of art. We look at some of his works, and also examine bamboo sticks ourselves to discover what makes them so strong. …
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Rocket Fun: Design, Launch and Improve
In this super fun workshop, the participants will look for the properties of an ideal rocket. How many fins are optimal, at what launch angle does the rocket fly the furthest, how sharp should we make the tip, and should it be weighted or not? And …
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Language robot: Working with AI
The workshop exists in a version for third grade primary school, and a version for secondary school.
If you write a text together with a language robot, is that art?
Computer programs that write texts such as ChatGPT, the news is full of them.
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Become a Styrofoam architect
The students get to work like real architects: after a short introduction to force distribution and strength theory, they learn the different techniques to design and construct an apartment building with our super fun Styrofoam cutters. But their …
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French, Spanish, Dutch: Drama in the classroom
THEATrAAL offers drama / drama / expression lessons in French, Spanish or Dutch, in primary and secondary education. There are several options: you can opt for a separate drama workshop or a series of lessons of 10 hours during which you work …
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Trial mobile
The Test Mobile is a cart full of demo material that we use to drive from class to class. In each class, a stop is made to demonstrate a number of scientific principles using everyday and less everyday objects in such a way that the students' …
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Spaghetti Bridges: Building and Testing
Building spaghetti bridges is a workshop where children have to make a bridge that spans a certain width using only uncooked spaghetti and a heat glue gun. The group that builds the bridge that can support the most weight without breaking is …
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Primitive dance
During this workshop, the children explore what their body can do, as it were, and learn to move purely by feeling. Sometimes slow, then exciting again, the music takes the children on a journey through all kinds of rhythms and sounds.
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