Don’t Confuse Learning Skills with Learning Strategies
There is a tendency nowadays to confuse the word skill with related concepts like strategy, method, and technique. Many people, when talking about "learning skills," actually mean learning strategies, or learning methods, or learning techniques...
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Susan on School Stuff: ‘I Find it Difficult to Study for Exams’
My mom suggested I write to you. We live in East London. I am in Grade 10 and every time we write exams I find it very difficult. There’s even a lump in my stomach because of all the stress. I find it difficult to start studying and because of that I always seem to have too little time. My marks are not good...
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Teaching Reading Right
Imagine not being able to read. Your academic career would not go further than high school, seriously hampering your chances of ever working your way up in the world. You could never apply for a job without assistance, being incapable of filling out an application form. You couldn’t correspond with friends, read for pleasure or treat your children to bedtime stories...
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Developing Reading Skills to Help Children Triumph Against Dyslexia
In support of Dyslexia Awareness Month, Edublox reading, maths and learning clinic examines the surprising root cause of dyslexia and shares tips on how parents can address their child’s reading difficulties.
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Susan on School Stuff: Learning Styles
My son is in Grade 4. I have been helping him with his study work, but am afraid to force him to use ‘my’ methods. I always learned well with pictures, but what worked well for me might not work for him. How will I know what works for him, and what doesn’t?...
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Visual Perception and Academic Success
Getman, a renowned behavioural optometrist, defined vision as a learned ability to understand things which cannot be heard, touched, smelled or tasted. He distinguished vision from sight which, according to him, is simply a response to light and from acuity which refers to light's clarity, and stated that vision enables the child to interpret the world.
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Leerstyle: Toets Jou Kind se Leerstyl Só maar Berei Hom Voor vir die Regte Lewe
Leerstyle word oor die algemeen in drie kategorieë opgedeel: visuele leerders, wat moet sien om te kan leer, ouditiewe leerders, wat moet hoor om te kan leer, en taktiele of kinestetiese leerders, wat verkies om te leer terwyl hulle doen. Toets jou kind se leerstyl só, maar maak ook seker dat jy hom vir die hier en nou, die regte lewe, voorberei.
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Teaching Myth: Repetition and Drill Dull Creativity
Repetition and drill have become swear words in education. Today this form of learning is considered to be out of style, ghastly boring and even mindless. Drill-and-practice, teachers are told, produces only rote memorization and dulls creativity. “Having to spend long periods of time on repetitive tasks is a sign that learning is not taking place...
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Die Rol van Oogspan in die Leesproses
As 'n mens se oë oor 'n gedrukte reël beweeg, beweeg hulle in 'n reeks vinnige sprongetjies wat deur kort pousetjies onderbreek word. Die spronge en die pouses volg mekaar so vinnig op dat 'n mens heeltemal onbewus is van hulle en daarom glo die meeste mense dat hulle oë egalig oor die bladsy beweeg terwyl hulle lees....
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Research Study: Visual Memory Improved by 1.3 Years in Five Days
Various researchers have stated that as much as eighty percent of all learning takes place through the eye, with visual memory existing as a crucial aspect of learning. Visual memory involves the ability to store and retrieve previously experienced visual sensations and perceptions when the stimuli that originally evoked them are no longer present.
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