As an educator, you have an opportunity and an obligation to foster creativity in your students, while also helping them develop digital skills. When students become creators of digital content, they can amplify their ideas and increase their impact. Article by Adobe
Tag: education
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Creativity matters in education
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Handwriting Worksheet Wizard
With the ESL Writing Wizard you can easily make worksheets for handwriting practice. You can change the font (print or cursive), the size and line patterns. With a few clicks you can create one-word worksheets or multi-word worksheets. The Writing Wizard is a free resource for teachers and (homeschooling) moms and dads. Access the ESL wizard here.
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Perception training from space
Tracing, recognizing mirrored images, counting pictures, finding differences – all these exercises are included in today’s freebie. These exercises combine different skills necessary for good reading, writing and calculating. Use these exercises when training dyslexic and dyscalculic children. Of course, you can also use them for homeschooling, tutoring, extra training.
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Clowns! Clowns! Clowns!
It is soon Mardi Gras and we thought this is a good time to offer some exercises with clowns: tracing, finding differences, seriality and left-right-exercises. These exercises train attention, hand-eye-coordination, visual and spatial perception – very important skills for reading, writing and calculating.
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Honeycomb Puzzles
Honeycomb puzzles are a great means to train attention and perception. Today, three honeycomb puzzles with different themes are offered. There are two versions of each puzzle. In the second version, the honeycomb that is in the middle, is colored gray. This might be a help, especially for younger children. It is best to print the puzzles on thicker paper. You might also want to laminate them.
Have fun puzzling!
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Hidden object puzzles
Can you see seven dolphins in the picture above? Have a close look and you’ll find them. Do you like such pictures? Then make sure to check Smartkit’s Hidden object puzzles. There you can find a variety of pictures with hidden objects, such as old Liebig-pictures or the hidden bear on the Suisse chocolate bar Toblerone. These kind of pictures are ideal to train visual perception with children, e.g. try the sad clown faces, the letters hidden in this picture or the hidden star.
Click on the pictures for a better resolution. You can also print and laminate them. In this way, you have a nice collection of wonderful, classic hidden object puzzles, with which both the young and the old can have fun.
Access all the puzzles here: http://www.smart-kit.com/scategory/brain-teasers/hidden-object-puzzles/
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Dyslexia-friendly books
The Telegraph has published a list of dyslexia-friendly books, such as Julia Donaldson’s (author of the The Gruffalo) Mr Birdnest and the House Next Door or Alan Gibbon’s The Number 7 Shirt which any young football fan will enjoy. It’s essential that children who are dyslexic have access to attractive, enjoyable reading – and the books on this list (which are written in concise sentences and tailored to different reading ages) clearly fit the bill.
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Drawing lines
“Drawing lines” offers many possibilities to train children’s skills that are important for reading, writing and arithmetics: attention, hand-eye-coordination, visual and spatial perception. The children are counting, they have to decide whether to draw up, down, to the right, to the left, etc. This may look simple, but for some children this is a real challenge.
You get 5 sheets with 4 exercises each. The children have to continue the lines in the same way. They can do this freehand or use a ruler. There are also two empty templates.
For children who have real difficulties with this kind of exercise, it might be a good idea to laminate the pages and give the children an overhead marker. This works like magic, because with an overhead marker children are no longer afraid to make mistakes. They can easily wipe them away.
Extra tip: If you have an ipad or tablet, open the file in an app that allows PDF-annotation. The children can do the exercise directly on the ipad/tablet. There is no child who refuses to do the exercise then!