May 2010 Blog Posts
Barbara Prashnig’s book, “Learning Styles in Action”, does more than help you implement learning styles: it actually helps you solve your stress and discipline issues.
The book is full of scenarios and diverse real-life situations. Among others, “Learning Styles in Action” shows you:
How learning styles can help underachieving or disruptive students
Multi-sensory teaching and learning in action
Ways to integrate learning styles and ICT (computer technology)
How to create a real learning styles classroom
The do’s and don’ts of using learning...
If you've read the previous post in the series (Learning Styles and Using Google), you will have seen that many students and school children are sadly incapable of getting information out of search engines. A number of factors may be at play here, and today we will look at one of them in more detail: the inability to read facts.
Thanks to the TV and the Xbox, many children today aren't as good readers as their parents were at this age. However, we see children who are fluent readers and who love reading fiction still struggle with reading web pages and...
There's a joke making its rounds on email lately, "Living without a Cell Phone". It's all about how hard our childhood's been compared to that of our children. One of the points it makes is the ease with which today's school children can access information online, whereas anybody over 30 still remembers having to go to the library and look it up in the card catalogue, request the book, wait two weeks, fetch the book....
It sounds like Generation Y and Z is living in Utopia and they "don't know how good they've got it". However, a recent study by Otago...
We all agree how important it is for the next generation to love books, right?
Absolutely!
But when it comes to books, it's not all about reading... not only about the skill of reading. It's also about the actual stories. Stories are a useful way to teach children our values (it pays to be noble and righteous, because good overcomes evil in the end), introduce the concept of "baddies" in a loving, secure environment, as well as inform us about the way things work (from making soup to what a hearing aid is).
All children love stories, so it makes sense...