In so many ways, the COVID-19 pandemic has been a disaster for education. But there some ways in which the disruption it has induced has made room for new approaches—within educational systems that are resistant to change in normal times. One of these approaches is bringing bodily movements into the learning process. Javeria Salman […]
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Teaching others what we know can help us understand the material more thoroughly. Science writer John Horgan has just introduced me to another benefit of “teaching to learn”: it can make us excited about and awed by the subject again. In a wonderful piece for Scientific American, Horgan writes that over many years of reporting,
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Lots of research has shown that students learn better when their teachers’ words are accompanied by gesture. A new study offers insight into when, and why, gesture is helpful. Researcher Casey Hall of the University of Chicago notes that gesture represents implicit, non-declarative knowledge: information that we “know” but can’t put into words. When it
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