Stu's Quiz Boxes! Top 40 Useful Sites To Learn New Skills The web is a powerful resource that can easily help you learn new skills. You just have to know where to look. Sure, you can use Google, Yahoo, or Bing to search for sites where you can learn new skills , but I figured I’d save you some time. Here are the top 40 sites I have personally used over the last few years when I want to learn something new. Hack a Day - Hack a Day serves up fresh hacks (short tutorials) every day from around the web and one in-depth ‘How-To hack’ guide each week.eHow - eHow is an online community dedicated to providing visitors the ability to research, share, and discuss solutions and tips for completing day-to-day tasks and projects.Wired How-To Wiki - Collaborate with Wired editors and help them build their extensive library of projects, hacks, tricks and tips.
How to Help a Child With Weak Working Memory | Executive Function Does your child have a weakness with verbal (auditory) or visual-spatial working memory? If so, you may find that it is greatly interfering with academic achievement. Fortunately, there are many ways to help—from teaching ways to compensate to lifestyle changes to brain-training techniques. Here are a few places to start to help a child with poor working memory. Know your child's strengths and weaknesses As a parent, you want to support your children any way you can. She says that sometimes teachers tell their students with dyslexia to just keep repeating the information over and over to themselves. H. Help compensate for weaknesses One way to compensate for poor working memory is to break up or chunk information. Encourage children to ask for this kind of “information management.” Other ways to compensate? Reinforce what works Of course, learning how to compensate doesn't mean simply letting working memory atrophy, says Cruger.
Home Overview Management Learning & Teaching Technical Legal JISC/HE Academy UKOER Programme UKOER tweets Going further... Recent changes to the infoKit Cookie statement Last Cookiweek David Kernohan, a JISC Programme Manager, commented in a Guardian article last week that Open Educational Resources are a radical idea that has now become mainstream. To try and condense some of the vast amount that has been learnt about the benefits of OER releases in the past 10 years, the Higher Education Academy and JISC have developed an InfoKit. (David Kernohan) As David mentions, one section that was missing up until now is a section giving an overview of Open Educational Resources for Senior Managers. · OER infoKit >>> Senior Management Overview >>> Menu If you're a Senior Manager - or even if you're not - we'd love some feedback!
Dyslexia Blog: ONLINE MEMORY GAMES In the previous blog article about memory games I mentioned that often dyslexic children have issues concerning memory.Most children, of course, enjoy playing online games .Here are some your child can play to help to them improve their memory skills : Brain Connection is an online source of information about the brain and learning for educators, parents, students and teachers . If you look at the left hand column you can click on “games”. There are a number of good games for children including bumper cows. Neuroscience For Kids - Has games to test memory eg “Simon says” - memory game.Really good site for children. If you type in "Neuroscience for Kids " in google you can find this site. Memory lightsMemory lights is a sequential memory building game.The computer lights up a sequence of lamps and you need to repeat the sequence in the same order. www.math-and-reading-help-for-kids.org/kids_games/memory_lights.html www.memorise.org/memoryGym.htm
14 Terrible Things You Didn’t Know About The Deep Web 1. Also called the hidden web and deepnet, the deep web is where search engines have not indexed the information, and so “invisible” to the mainstream public. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. Games Improve Working Memory, Learning, Study Finds | TVO Parents Two new educational video games on TVOKids.com improve kids’ working memory, a major component of what’s measured in Intelligence Quotient (IQ) tests. That’s according to a new study out of the University of Toronto’s Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), which looked at the impact of the new Ribbit Frog Ribbit and Hop Frog Hop online games. “Working memory is very important for just about everything we do in school,” says study researcher Zack Hawes. “(A strong working memory) is a very big indication of success for kids in school and later in life.” Working memory is broadly defined as the ability to actively hold and manipulate information in your mind for a brief period of time (the mind’s workspace). Sixty-six Grade 1 students were divided up into two groups, one group playing the working memory games for a total of 20 minutes, four times a week for six consecutive weeks. Janette Pelletier, Ph. Hop Frog Hop and Ribbit Frog Ribbit are also available as apps. Urban Moms
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