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A Guide to Self Care while Social Distancing

A guide to how to take care of yourself and those you love when your stuck at home as a result of social distancing and self-isolation, and anxiety and coronavirus cabin fever begin to set in! Social distancing and self-isolation are critically important to controlling the spread of coronaviru

Learning to learn 13 tips from brain research

Learn for life or exams like scientists and brain researchers would. Sources: Brain capacity https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-is-the-memory-capacity/ Interrupted repetitions: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1249098 https://www.alzforum.org/news/research-news/while-you-we

Active learning

"Active learning" means getting involved, collaborating with others, and implementing concepts in the real world. It is intellectual hard work. But it allows you to remember the content better, understand it better and transfer it to other situations. Why does it work so well? We take a look at th

The Flintstone Method Learning through mediation

Can learning be taught? Or is it something that just happens or doesn't happen? Feuerstein believed that everyone can increase their ability to learn through human mediation. He distinguished between direct and indirect learning and what this means for the learner's ability to understand new informa

John Dewey's Principles of Education

There are few approaches that have had such a big impact on education as John Dewey's. The American philosopher, psychologist and educator believed that children should be active creators and the agents of their learning, and not just passive recipients of the knowledge of previous generations. Sp

Online Education for Refugees

Click here to see more videos: https://alugha.com/mysimpleshow Social inclusion of refugees starts with education. Less than 1% of refugees around the world have access to higher education. There are different ways that we can change this - e.g. by combining online and offline elements of education