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TeamHums all the way, RQT, ITE Mentor 25-27, PSHE Lead #GeographyTeacher #GeoHazards π Mama to a Durham graduate π
New to globetrotting - Romania incoming!
When CO2 levels were 342ppm
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@RSE_day When I go on your website it throws up a security alert and my computer says it's an unsafe website.5he link above doesn't even take you to PSHE stuff it takes you to a computer programming site
What an amazing resource - World Cup ready with up to date development data and Spearmans Rank stats - what a summer soccer challenge βοΈππ #GeographyTeacher Thank you @Map_Addict π«Ά
Are your geography students ready for the #FIFAworldcup
I created a TopTrumps lesson for students which includes an enquiry question using Spearmanβs Rank
Resources available here (template in slides notes) https://t.co/0pLQEiFttY #geographyteacher
@Map_Addict This is awesome! THANK YOU!
@Stagecoach_Ox It's been going on for 3days, I would have hoped you would already be aware. Good luck!
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@Stagecoach_Ox guys can you please fix the bollard sensor for the #B9 as it cuts from Usher Dr to Rother Rd at the Winchelsea Cl stop - seen TOO MANY buses have to reverse and back out over the last 2 days!! Ridiculous management, there's an ANPR cam to verify, too!!
A new chapter for the River Wye was signed on Sunday as we joined local authorities and environmental partners across England and Wales united behind a new Charter for the River Wye
The Charter sets out a shared commitment to protecting and restoring the river for future generations, bringing together organisations from across the catchment in the first coordinated effort of its kind
Partners including Herefordshire Council, conservation organisations and neighbouring authorities are working together to support the long-term recovery of one of the UKβs most iconic rivers
Find out more in our newsroom π½
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@trahaine27 @F1BigData And 3 of those were formation laps so technically Lap 7 of proper racing ππ±
When I write my notes out it may look a clutter, but if I need to go back to them I know exactly what they looked like on the page to find it! Patterns work, and you need the neural pathways to join them! #HandwrittenNotTyped #TheIronyIsNotLost
A Norwegian neuroscientist spent 20 years proving that the act of writing by hand changes the human brain in ways typing physically cannot, and almost nobody outside her field has read the paper.
Her name is Audrey van der Meer.
She runs a brain research lab in Trondheim, and the paper that closed the argument was published in 2024 in a journal called Frontiers in Psychology. The finding is brutal enough that it should have changed every classroom on Earth.
The experiment was simple. She recruited 36 university students and put each one in a cap with 256 sensors pressed against their scalp to record brain activity. Words flashed on a screen one at a time.
Sometimes the students wrote the word by hand on a touchscreen using a digital pen, and sometimes they typed the same word on a keyboard. Every neural response was recorded for the full five seconds the word stayed on screen.
Then her team looked at the part of the data most researchers had ignored for years, which is how different parts of the brain were communicating with each other during the task.
When the students wrote by hand, the brain lit up everywhere at once.
The regions responsible for memory, sensory integration, and the encoding of new information were all firing together in a coordinated pattern that spread across the entire cortex. The whole network was awake and connected.
When the same students typed the same word, that pattern collapsed almost completely.
Most of the brain went quiet, and the connections between regions that had been alive seconds earlier were nowhere to be found on the EEG.
Same word, same brain, same person, and two completely different neurological events.
The reason turned out to be something nobody had really paid attention to before her work. Writing by hand is not one motion but a sequence of thousands of tiny micro-movements coordinated with your eyes in real time, where each letter is a different shape that requires the brain to solve a slightly different spatial problem.
Your fingers, wrist, vision, and the parts of your brain that track position in space are all working together to produce one letter, then the next, then the next.
Typing throws all of that away. Every key on a keyboard requires the exact same finger motion regardless of which letter you are pressing, which means the brain has almost nothing to integrate and almost no problem to solve.
Van der Meer said it plainly in her interviews.
Pressing the same key with the same finger over and over does not stimulate the brain in any meaningful way, and she pointed out something that should scare every parent who handed their kid an iPad.
Children who learn to read and write on tablets often cannot tell letters like b and d apart, because they have never physically felt with their bodies what it takes to actually produce those letters on a page.
A decade before her, two researchers at Princeton ran the same fight using a completely different method and ended up at the same answer. Pam Mueller and Daniel Oppenheimer tested 327 students across three experiments, where half took notes on laptops with the internet disabled and half took notes by hand, before testing everyone on what they actually understood from the lectures they had watched.
The handwriting group won by a wide margin on every question that required real understanding rather than surface recall.
The reason was hiding in the transcripts of what the two groups had actually written down.
The laptop students typed almost word for word, capturing more total content but processing almost none of it as they went, while the handwriting students physically could not write fast enough to transcribe a lecture in real time, which forced them to listen carefully, decide what actually mattered, and put it in their own words on the page.
That single act of choosing what to keep was the learning itself, and the keyboard had quietly skipped the choosing and skipped the learning along with it.
Two studies. Two countries. Same answer.
Handwriting makes the brain work. Typing lets it coast.
Every note you have ever typed instead of written went into your brain through a thinner pipe. Every meeting, every book highlight, every idea you captured on your phone instead of on paper was processed at half depth.
You did not forget those things because your memory is bad. You forgot them because typing never woke the part of the brain that would have made them stick.
The fix is the thing your grandmother already knew.
Pick up a pen. Write the thing down. The slower road is the faster one.
Manchester City are crowned WSL champions for the first time since 2016! π
π¨π OFFICIAL: Pep Guardiola has now won 20 TROPHIES in 10 years at Manchester City.
π 1x Champions League
ππππππ x6 Premier League
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Perfect job - night cleaner in the mahoosive aquarium in Remarkably Bright Creatures πππ₯°
How can a new build estate be offering Β£50k savings on a Β£450k 3bed house already??? Absolute rip off!! π±π±
@MiniMapMakers These are wonderful, Alice - just seen it on LinkedIn too - fab work! πβοΈπ
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Thank you so much @PearsonEdexcel for my copy! Will support my summer marking no end βοΈπππ #GeographyTeacher #EdB #SummerSeries26
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#GetOutside and touch some grass doing #Infiltration #FestivalOfFieldwork - Y9 working out the effects of recent high pressure on the #SoilPorosity around site as well as the impact of #SummerSports season on the fields #GeographyTeacher βοΈππ
There is a danger with poster HW that it is just a cop out hw and that effort doesn't get used, but for those who relish a more creative outlet for their studies... π₯°ππβοΈ #TRF #Y8BrazilUnit #GeographyTeacher
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