What’s Lost as Handwriting Fades

Does handwriting matter? Not very much, according to many educators. The Common Core standards, which have been adopted in most states, call for teaching legible writing, but only in kindergarten and first grade. After that, the emphasis quickly shifts to proficiency on the keyboard. But psychologists and neuroscientists say it is far too soon to declare handwriting a relic of the past. New evidence suggests that the links between handwriting and broader educational development run deep. Children not only learn to read more quickly when they first learn to write by hand, but they also remain better able to generate ideas and retain information. “When we write, a unique neural circuit is automatically activated,” said Stanislas Dehaene, a psychologist at the Collège de France in Paris. “And it seems that this circuit is contributing in unique ways we didn’t realize,” he continued. A 2012 study led by Karin James, a psychologist at Indiana University, lent support to that view. Dr. Dr.

Skapligt Enkelt matematiskt The Lowdown on Longhand: How Writing by Hand Benefits the Brain My Catholic school third grade teacher was extremely tough on me. Her biggest gripe was my handwriting, which looks more like an EKG scan than penmanship. For years, I harbored not-so-fond memories of her, but now I know that her strictness about penmanship was actually helping my brain develop. Today, cursive writing is becoming a lost art as note taking with laptops becomes more and more prominent in classrooms. There has been much debate on the use of laptops for note taking in classrooms. So in this age of technology, I'm suggesting that students take notes with paper and pen. A Plea for Penmanship When students take notes with their laptops, they tend to mindlessly transcribe the data word for word, like speech-to-text software. Now, I'll be the first to say that longhand writing is so 19th century. The Pen is Mightier All this begs the question of how we can incorporate longhand in a digital age. A lost art in the world of science is the lab notebook.

Homepage - Te Kete Ipurangi (TKI) Official Home for Character First training, education resources, and leadership seminars - Character First The Learning Challenge from Challenging Learning Brains Sweep Themselves Clean Of Toxins During Sleep Katherine Streeter for NPR While the brain sleeps, it clears out harmful toxins, a process that may reduce the risk of Alzheimer's, researchers say. During sleep, the flow of cerebrospinal fluid in the brain increases dramatically, washing away harmful waste proteins that build up between brain cells during waking hours, a study of mice found. "It's like a dishwasher," says Dr. Maiken Nedergaard, a professor of neurosurgery at the University of Rochester and an author of the study in Science. The results appear to offer the best explanation yet of why animals and people need sleep. Nedergaard and a team of scientists discovered the cleaning process while studying the brains of sleeping mice. The scientists noticed that during sleep, the system that circulates cerebrospinal fluid through the brain and nervous system was "pumping fluid into the brain and removing fluid from the brain in a very rapid pace," Nedergaard says. So why doesn't the brain do this sort of housekeeping all the time?

Förstelärare i Svedala | Undervisning och lärande Habits of Mind Checklist Levla Det vägledande stödmaterialet har utvecklats i nära samarbete med pedagoger, specialpedagoger, rektorer och elevhälsopersonal. Materialet består av formulär och en anpassnings- och åtgärdsbank. Det hjälper skolpersonal att skapa en konstruktiv och arbetsbar beskrivning av en problemsituation och sedan komma igång med relevanta stödinsatser i lärmiljön. En förskoleversion av formulären har utformats med nya illustrationer och anpassad terminologi, den kan du ladda ner här. Vi som har arbetat i projektet heter Anna Boman, Erik Rova och Liselott Wihlbäck. I filmen nedan berättar skolpersonal hur de upplevt materialet.

Bygga tema av kunskapskraven – ThereseLinnér För några år sedan fick jag utmaningen att ta emot elever från flera klasser när de skulle börja årskurs 6. För att klara det var jag tvungen att se över min undervisningen. De dokument och de tankar som jag jobbade fram då har följt med mig sedan dess för jag såg att det var ett bra sätt att hantera läroplanens alla kunskapskrav. Jag behövde organisera min undervisning så att de uppgifter jag gav eleverna skulle stödja flera kunskapskrav. Så här gjorde jag: Jag tittade över alla kunskapskrav i de ämnen som jag undervisade i. När jag hade lyft fram dem som stödord i mitt dokument satte jag igång att se vilka beröringspunkter jag kunde hitta. 2. 3. 3. Ord och begrepp för att benämna och samtala om tekniska lösningar ska det stå på sista raden. Det här blev stödstrukturer för mig i mitt arbete som sparade mycket tid och gav mig hjälp att hålla fokus på målet vi skulle ta oss till.

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