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Understanding Children’s Learning Styles

Friday, July 29th, 2011
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We each have our own unique learning style, and if we can identify a child’s learning style, we will be much better able to connect with them and support them in their learning. Our teaching will also be much more effective.

Children too can benefit from understanding their personal learning style. This knowledge can help them to access learning opportunities more effectively, and give them a sense of empowerment and control over their learning. It can also help them relate to and communicate better with the various people in their life, including their teachers.

Learning styles are based on the way we each receive and process information, an issue that is of particular importance for a child with dyslexia. There are four basic ways we each receive information. We can most effectively support a child’s learning by offering them materials and experiences designed for their unique learning style.

Visual learning style – (more…)

29.07.2011 Learning No Comments

Learning Disability………….

Thursday, July 21st, 2011
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The term learning disability (LD) refers to a group of disorders that affect a broad range of academic and functional skills including the ability to speak, listen, read, write, spell, reason and organize information. A learning disability is not indicative of low intelligence. People with learning disabilities sometimes have difficulty achieving at their intellectual level because of a deficit in one or more of the ways the brain processes information.

Interestingly, there is no clear and widely accepted definition of “learning disabilities.” Because of the multidisciplinary nature of the field, there is ongoing debate on the issue of definition, and there are currently at least 12 definitions that appear in the professional literature. These disparate definitions do agree on certain factors:

1. The learning disabled have difficulties with academic achievement and progress. Discrepancies exist between a person’s potential for learning and what he (more…)

21.07.2011 Learning No Comments

How to Buy a Specialty Math Learning Center Franchise

Sunday, July 17th, 2011
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How to Buy a Specialty Math Learning Center Franchise

 

Frank Ho

 

Ho Math and Chess Learning Center, Canada

 


The future trend of learning center industry is to go specialty, the competition is so fierce among learning centers, new comers would have hard time to survive if the after-school learning center is not specialized, much like many customers now go to shoe store to only buy shoes now. To buy a math specialty learning center, the first important thing to do is to look around and find out what types of math learning centers are available.

 

The most traditional way of teaching math is to use drill system, although this type of learning center is much against by the modern math scholars, they are many still around especially in the North America due to the reason the homework is not as heavy when compared the other parts of the world, especially in Asian countries. So many of (more…)

17.07.2011 Learning No Comments

New Learning Styles

Wednesday, July 13th, 2011
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The Desire to multitask and be constantly Connected to the net and to friends as well as the hunger for immediate results influence how young people today interact with the world — whether in school or at work or at home or while traveling — and must be taken into account by both educators and employers. However, the ways in which young people are different today as learners may be the most fundamental change we need to understand as we consider hot to close the global achievement gap. The use of the internet and other digital technology has transformed both what young people learn today and how they learn.

Learning Through Multimedia and Connection to Others

Young adults who’ve grown up on the net are habituated to multimedia learning experiences, as opposed to merely interacting with text. According to the Oblingers, “Researchers report Net Gen students will refuse to read large amounts of text, whether it involves a long reading assignment or (more…)

13.07.2011 Learning No Comments

Knowledge Management & Learning Organisation: Six of one and a half dozen of the other

Saturday, July 9th, 2011
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Moving Beyond “Knowledge for Knowledge’s sake”

Quick ± in 25 words or less, define knowledge management. Can’t do it? You’re not alone.

    There are an assortment of disciplines that have influenced the field of Knowledge Management (KM) thinking and praxis – the most prominent are philosophy, in defining knowledge; cognitive science (in understanding knowledge workers); social science (in understanding motivation, people, interactions, culture and environment); management science (in optimising operations and integrating them within the enterprise); information science (in building knowledge-related capabilities); knowledge engineering (in eliciting and codifying knowledge); artificial intelligence (in automating routine and knowledge-intensive work) and economics (in determining priorities). As a result, there are enormous working definitions of KM and emergent philosophies circulating in the (more…)

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