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Create an efficient summary in six steps
By making a summary, you are actively working on the learning material. This allows you to absorb information more efficiently. In addition, such a structured document provides a clear overview of your learning material. Two birds with one …
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Four methods for taking notes
In this article you will find information about four note-taking methods:
- Cornell;
- blurting;
- mind maps;
- question and answer.
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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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Children's books about how the brain works
A list of books about how the brain works.
The way the brain works is very complicated. However, it can be very useful to talk to children about how the brain works. If you start using mindset methods or would like to get started with a growth …
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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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Repeat subject matter: Practice box
Article in which Erika explains how to prepare your students for the tests in a nice way with a box full of repetition exercises.
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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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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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