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Getting and holding students’ attention requires engaging their bodies and brains in the learning process. Whiteboard work does that. The very act of getting up and walking to the whiteboard increases alertness and helps encode and trigger memory. Working at a whiteboard also engages multiple senses, and thus, more learning styles. Our visual, semantic, sensory, motor and emotional neural networks all contain their own memory systems. “Written or spoken information paired with visual information results in better recall,” says American psychologist and author Louis Cozolino. Doing learning activities on a vertical surface also helps students develop spatial and body awareness. Younger students better understand concepts of up, down; right, left; high and low. Older students gain confidence in body control before peers. That’s great training for future careers. Vertical surfaces, like walls and mobile whiteboards, are great for brainstorming and collaborative work, as well as for presenting to larger groups of students. Horizontal surfaces, like dry-erase tables or small individual whiteboards, are great for projects that students don’t necessarily want to broadcast to everyone else in the room. They work well to support small groups and individual brainstorming. This will be super ideal for professional developments also!

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Getting and holding students’ attention requires engaging their bodies and brains in the learning process. Whiteboard work does that. The very act of getting up and walking to the whiteboard increases alertness and helps encode and trigger memory. Working at a whiteboard also engages multiple senses, and thus, more learning styles. Our visual, semantic, sensory, motor and emotional neural networks all contain their own memory systems. “Written or spoken information paired with visual information results in better recall,” says American psychologist and author Louis Cozolino. Doing learning activities on a vertical surface also helps students develop spatial and body awareness. Younger students better understand concepts of up, down; right, left; high and low. Older students gain confidence in body control before peers. That’s great training for future careers. Vertical surfaces, like walls and mobile whiteboards, are great for brainstorming and collaborative work, as well as for presenting to larger groups of students. Horizontal surfaces, like dry-erase tables or small individual whiteboards, are great for projects that students don’t necessarily want to broadcast to everyone else in the room. They work well to support small groups and individual brainstorming. This will be super ideal for professional developments also!

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