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I am flying to Toulouse!
Very happy to attend the first meeting of the "Geometrician's Views" ErasmusPlus project!
Ready to learn from European partners!

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Today the new school year starts!
Last year the art colleague asked pupils to make a caricature of teachers. I said, "Yes, why not? Good idea". It's me according to my pupils.
I wish all students, teachers, and school staff a wonderful Back To School 2021!

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"New Book - The Fundamentals Of Teaching"
Mike Bell
https://ebtn.org.uk/
A five-step process: Prior Knowledge, Presentation, Challenge, Feedback and Repetition.

GUEST POST: New Book - The Fundamentals Of Teaching — The Learning Scientists

In this guest post interview Mike Bell explains how he got interested in evidence-based teaching and provides an overview of his new book “The Fundamentals of Teaching“…

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Do not miss the "Back To School" with NASA!
Launch Back to School With NASA: Student and Educator Resources for the 2021-2022 School Year
Artemis, James Webb Space Telescope, Mars 2020: Perseverance and Ingenuity, Observing Earth...
Explore STEM Resources for K-12 Educators

Launch Back to School With NASA: Student and Educator Resources for th

As students across the country are saying goodbye to the summer and the new school year is kicking off, NASA is gearing up to engage students in exciting activities and thought-provoking challenges throughout the year ahead.

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From today's path...

The power of drawing in children's education is well known. Walking on a trail, I found different drawings about animals and plants carried out by children. This one is amazing!

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Negative consequences of pervasive neuromyths on learning
93% of the general population and 76% of educators believed in the learning styles hypothesis. This is just one of the neuromyths in education.
Unlearning Neuromyths

Unlearning Neuromyths — The Learning Scientists

One of our goals as Learning Scientists is to make sure that research is communicated in an accessible but accurate way. Unfortunately, many times science dissemination results in miscommunication and translation such that the original results...

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Thinking about educational activities on polyhedra, I found this precious site collecting stunning drawings of radiolaria by Ernst Haeckel (1904). A lot of geometry can be done with radiolaria shells!
Ernst Haeckel: Die Radiolarien

Look at this animation of radiolarian diversity:
1-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Animation_of_radiolarian_diversity.gif
2-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiolaria
3-https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/ts/2018/07/03/minds-over-methods-linking-microfossils-to-tectonics/

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My choice among the Pandemic haiku by Science Magazine

Pandemic education

Back to “normal” soon
Effort and innovation
Can we keep what works?

By Dr. Rachel Yoho (https://twitter.com/rachel_yoho)
Pandemic haiku

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Neurodiversity is an understanding and a recognition that not all brains are the same or work the same way.
Neurodiversity in Education
1-https://www.learningscientists.org/blog/2021/6/25/digest-153
2-https://linktr.ee/Neurodiv

Digest #153: Neurodiversity in Education — The Learning Scientists

For today’s digest I teamed up with Dr Chiara Horlin who is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Psychology at the University of Glasgow and an expert in neurodiversity and what role it plays in education…