Apps, Gadgets, Spaces, VLEs, Web
‘Can you please just pay attention and finish your homework already?’ Every parent has uttered this question at least once in their lifetime. Whenever a child is given a task where they are required to sit quietly and focus on their studies, they end up getting distracted and fidgety.
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.
The 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 […]
Education experts encourage the incorporation of STEAM learning from early childhood. If you work in the education sector, are a parent or a guardian of a child, then you would have probably heard of STEM – the acronym for Science, Technology, Engineering and Math.
Baking is one of those activities that everyone says is fun to do with children, especially young children. ‘They can learn so much’, apparently… little do these ‘wise’ folk without young children know, just what a chore it is to really ‘allow’ kids loose in the kitchen
Striding confidently on to the stage in little more than her early 19th century underwear, and some really fancy boots (apparently designed by Lady Gaga’s
We’ve all been there, when the weather’s tremendously bad outside, and the kids have been stuck indoors for far too long. They’re bouncing of the walls, getting under your feet and generally need to work off some pent-up energy. You could head out to a jungle gym or indoor play area, but you’ve got work […]
When I had my son eight months ago, my husband and I made a pact that we would be strict when it comes to screen time. The first five months passed and my baby would only look at the devices in awe. The lights and sounds probably fascinated him.
Tired of the ‘stock’ browser that comes with your machine, here are your speedy, more secure and highly configurable options that will trump your stock browser and take your Internet browsing to a whole new level.
Tired of Calibri, Arial, Times Roman and Helvetica, time to move on to modern and contemporary fonts. Check out your options for modern and contemporary thin and extra light fonts. The best part is they are absolutely free from Google.
Smart pens have been around for a while now – the first serious players in this technology sector, ‘Livescribe’ appearing in 2007 with their first edition smart pen.
Make learning science fun for children of all ages with some of the best online YouTube channels focusing on Science.
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 desire to learn stays with many of us for a lifetime, but for others may be a struggle. They may not have had a great early learning experience, or they were not engaged in a way that worked for them. So much more is known now about how young people learn best – how to identify their habits […]
In a world where children are glued to a tablet or computer to keep them busy, why not connect them with educational and entertaining content geared to their special and unique interests?
Blogging or web logging has long been used as a journaling method; the recording of one’s written thoughts and sharing it to the public space.
Melissa’s stomach tightened as she saw the Instagram post with a picture of herself bending down to tie her shoe. The comments above the unflattering image, all in caps, ‘Ever watch a cow tie her shoes? Well now you have!’ The additional comments were worse, comparing her to all manner of farm animals, circus elephants […]
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.
For many students, the mere mention of Math brings a shadow of dread, the boring, unyielding, uncompromising need to work at numbers in it’s abstract forms, from algebra to imaginary numbers.
Following on the heels of our recent article on Examinations we focus now on something all students should be taught but unfortunately aren’t, that is ‘How to Learn’.