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Reading and language education: Inspiration day
As part of the Reading Offensive, Flanders Literature and Everyone Reads worked with ninety schools on two effective approaches to promoting reading: interactive reading aloud in nursery and primary education and author residencies in …
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Medieval Writing: Workshop
Would you like to have fun with your students with a quill pen, dip pen and medieval ink? To be able to extensively feel and smell parchment, papyrus, wax seals and rag paper?
Try out different types of writing utensils, feel old papers and make your …
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The little Prince
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry is the story of a pilot who meets a special boy, the Little Prince, after an emergency landing in the desert. He tells the pilot about the planet he lives on, other planets he visited and their …
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Spelling in the spotlight: Online inspiration session
We zoom in on the remediation pillar of the integrated approach to reading problems.
The negative PIRLS results made full media coverage. The reading level of our Flemish ten-year-olds reached a dramatic low. Will you help tackle this?
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Media Scanners: Workshop
Information bubbles, propaganda, censorship... These are phenomena that are as old as our (visual) language. But how do you recognize them? How do we avoid polarization? The Media Scanners workshop introduces students to sources from the Second …
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Language robot: Working with AI
The workshop exists in a version for third grade primary school, and a version for secondary school.
If you write a text together with a language robot, is that art?
Computer programs that write texts such as ChatGPT, the news is full of them.
In our …
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Young Plato: Educational Pack
This is an educational package from Blue Bird Docs based on the documentary Young Plato by Neasa Ní Chianáin and Declan McGrath.
The film uniquely illustrates that it is feasible to philosophize with young children and thereby strengthen …
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Lesson in Reading: Inspiration guide for effective reading education in preschool, primary and secondary education
This guide contains 16 inspiration cards, each starting from a key question about reading and reading education. Each question is answered on the basis of recent scientific research, supplemented with practical tips and concrete examples.
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EU Project initiative is still looking for a few partner schools
The envisaged project aims to contribute to the use of data-based approaches and artificial intelligence (AI)-driven applications in language teaching in secondary education to support (foreign) language pedagogies in response to changing …
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Breaking News: Theater Session
Breaking News is a theater trajectory in which you convert the classroom into a temporary news editor, with a focus on current affairs and satire. Under professional guidance, the young people are made aware of the pitfalls of fake news, but they …
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Falling reading level? Scan your approach on four levels
Year after year, Flemish pupils read less well. Reading motivation is also on the back burner. Teachers don't give up. But also know: you cannot solve this alone. Jona Hebbrecht (Odisee) explains how you can map out your approach with the Reading …
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Unravel mysterious traces
The class leaves in small groups with a tablet on an exciting journey. Via the Heritage App, they receive clues, challenges and riddles from a mysterious figure along the way. Meanwhile, the students discover daily life from the Middle Ages and …
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