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10 Amazing Sensory and Activity Games to help your Pre-schooler Learn the Alphabet

Teaching young children the alphabet is a bit like inducting them in to a secret society. ‘You mean these weird shapes and squiggles actually mean something?’

The 7 Best Musical Instruments to Learn On Your Own

Music is food for soul. Through the ages, it has been used to express emotions that words on their cannot do sufficient justice. When you are on a long drive, getting bored on a subway, strenuously working out, jogging, or having dinner with friends, music brightens up everyday life.

How to Encourage the Reluctant Reader – Top 5 Tips to get your little ones reading

When I was four years old, my father bought me a book I instantly fell in love with, ‘Milly Molly Mandy Stories’. While I could hardly read back then, I loved looking at the pictures and following the random adventures of a little girl while my parents read it aloud for me.

5 Best Ways to Introduce Early Years Kids to Coding and Computer Programming

Introducing your children to the world of coding can be a bit of a challenge, particularly for parents who themselves have no idea about how codes work. In today’s era where the digital world has largely taken over our tasks and routines, it is essential to learn the fundamentals of coding.

9 Essential Life Skills Every Child Should Have by Age 12

No sane person in the world would want any harm to come across their child. For parents, it is only natural to shield their kids from various vices of the society.

Creative Science Projects for Children Using Household Items

Children love to experiment and create things. Be it throwing a rattle off the table, playing with bath bubbles and foam, or building tall towers from blocks, children inherently know how to keep themselves busy. Older children indulge in imaginative scenarios, draw and color intricately and show interest in science and art and crafts.

How to Begin Instilling a Growth Mindset in Younger Children

Human brain is like a play dough. All the positive and negative interactions that we have, thoughts that run throughout the day, and emotions that we feel, shape and mould the architecture of our brains since the day we are born. During the first 1000 days of life, more than 700 neural connections are rapidly […]

The Best Websites to Build Word Clouds – A Visualisation of Words

Although the saying goes, ‘A picture paints a thousand words’, a thousand words also does make a pretty picture. There was a time when word clouds used to sit in the sidebar of most blogs, listing the Categories or Tags in a playful visual.

Learn Latin Online With These Free Online Courses & Resources

Latin forms the basis of almost all European languages. While it is no longer a living language, its strict structure and grammar helps learners in their understanding of how the European languages function and have developed.

Best Science Channels on YouTube – 12 exciting video series to learn science

Make learning science fun for children of all ages with some of the best online YouTube channels focusing on Science.

How Can Teachers Embrace eLearning

On-line learning has gained a great deal of traction in the last few years. What was almost exclusively seen as a tool for adult, specialised learning is now in the classrooms and homes of our students.

The Best Stop-motion Animation Kits for Kids

Do you have a burgeoning film maker in your house? Does he or she have a big imagination and love movies? Well, best to capture that talent while they are interested and their creative juices are flowing!

Hack Your Learning: The 16 Best Books on Learning and Achieving Academically

I have always been a firm believer that each of our brains are highly individual; that we each have highly personalised skills and abilities that more suited for some fields of study and expertise compared to others.

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The Best Build-Your-Own Programmable Robot Kits for Learning at Home and in Schools

Despite the sometimes sinister perspectives of robots taking over our world, as portrayed in numerous films, the reality of robotics is here to stay.

Best Free Apps for Taking Notes on Tablets & Laptops in Schools

Note taking app is one of the must have essential apps for school, college and university. Even more so when attending lectures and working on an assignment but which app is best to help you make the most of learning.

Scheduling your Free Windows 10 Upgrade in 5 Easy Steps

So Windows 10 is here and for early adopters, if you have reserved your Windows 10 prior to 29th of July, here are the steps to get your on your way to the latest Windows release.

Free Online Photo Backup with Google Plus

If you are like me and enjoy taking snaps on the smartphone (both Android and iPhone), you would also have to frequently clear out the snaps to make way for new ones. Here is a service from Google that provides you with unlimited online backup of all your photos.