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Hald, Lea A.; de Nooijer, Jacqueline; van Gog, Tamara; Bekkering, Harold – Educational Psychology Review, 2016
The aim of this review is to consider how current vocabulary training methods could be optimized by considering recent scientific insights in how the brain represents conceptual knowledge. We outline the findings from several methods of vocabulary training. In each case, we consider how taking an embodied cognition perspective could impact word…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods, Evidence Based Practice
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Abrahamson, Dor; Sánchez-García, Raúl; Trninic, Dragan – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2016
The recent proliferation of technological devices with natural user interfaces (e.g., touchscreen tablets) is regenerating scholarship on the role of sensorimotor interaction in conceptual learning. Some researchers of mathematical education have adopted views from constructivism, phenomenology, enactivism, and ecological dynamics to interpret…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Mathematics Instruction, Constructivism (Learning)
Rosner, Jerome; And Others – 1970
The effects of a visual motor training program that attempts to teach 5-year-olds the underlying cognitive structures used in copying geometric designs are assessed. The Design Board Program teaches the child a systematic method for analyzing complex two-dimensional graphic patterns. It is based on the theory that accurate replication of geometric…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Early Childhood Education, Educational Experiments, Kindergarten Children