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How Kids Learn Through Glass Boards and Develop Cognitive Ability?

September 10, 2020 by Jackie Cravener

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A baby’s ability to understand starts as early as nine months. At this age, babies are able to comprehend cues such as “No” and “Bye.” By the end of 12 months, babies can also use consonant sounds and even call their parents “mama.” Besides that, the real learning for children starts at around the age of 3. Parents look forward to watch their child’s learning. However, while you are at, it is essential to note that children learn differently.

Understanding how your child learns will go a long way in helping them enjoy learning and learning effectively. There are three main styles of learning, and they include auditory, visual, and kinesthetic learning. Auditory learners comprehend best through listening. On the other hand, visual learners understand best through visualizing and illustrating, while kinesthetic learners effectively learn by actively taking part in the learning process. Knowing the best way your kids learn will help you develop their cognitive ability effectively as they grow up.

What are Cognitive abilities & why is this so crucial for kids?

Cognition is how people understand and act. Cognitive abilities refer to the brain-based skills that enable a person to accurately take information, process, and interpret and manipulate it for the best reasoning. Each step in cognition is vital for effective reasoning.

An accurate understanding of information involves staying focused and paying attention to an action, object, and thought. Being able to manage distractions in the environment helps them to tap information accurately. Processing information is the second step in cognition, and it involves understanding incoming information and the relationship between actions, objects, and thoughts.

On the other hand, manipulating information involves the processing of output, depending on how information has been understood.

Why are cognitive skills essential for kids? Cognitive abilities help children understand the world around them, learn new things, and figure things out. It also helps them improve their analytical skills.

How kids learn through glass boards proactively

Writing boards are among the tools that parents can use to develop their kids’ cognitive skills. Here are ways glass boards can contribute to effective learning.

 1. A magical way of written text with transparent background

Children are more proactive in learning when there are fun, challenging, and creative opportunities to learn. Presenting them with an empty board will amuse them and trigger their creative juices. Kids will find more pleasure writing on the boards, which will encourage them to think outside the box. Unlike the conventional way of writing, this provides them a unique and exciting way of learning.

2. Glass boards help create a focused oriented learning atmosphere

Attention is essential in the cognitive process. It helps children be aware of external stimuli and helps capture information accurately. With this, they can manipulate information and respond effectively.

Attention can be improved with glass boards as they eliminate distraction. Kids will have better focus and concentration when writing on glass boards, compared to when writing from the traditional blackboards or on a piece of paper. The surface is appealing, which is one of the things that grab the attention of kids.

3. Creative learning develops creativity thinking

The approach to learning in this modern era has changed. The traditional learning tools no longer tick as much as the modern one does. Writing on boards has addressed constraints that impeded creativity. Creative learning, encouraged by such tools, takes cognitive development to the next level. In this era, creative people have a better chance of being successful. Writing boards encourage kids to think creatively while drawing something or writing something on the board. 

4. Learning by doing brings confidence

Allowing kids to write and draw on boards increases their confidence. Children’s self-esteem grows when they are allowed to do the things they enjoy doing and being praised for them. Congratulating them on doing a good drawing on board will boost their confidence. The exciting part is that confidence forms a good foundation for their cognitive development while allowing them to explore their creativity.

 5. Sound reasoning after logical analysis

 Visual learning plays a critical role in cognitive development. Being the most dominant learning style, children can make sense of the world by seeing as part of collecting information and visualizing as part of processing the information. Once they have accurately collected the information and decoded it, they come up with a result in the form of illustration.

Glass writing boards promote sound reasoning by allowing them to link all three parts of cognitive thinking. That is collecting relevant information, processing it through logical thinking, and interpreting the information.

 To promote your child’s cognitive development, you should provide the right environment for that to happen. Such environments should be able to allow kids to solve problems, be creative, explore, and discover new things. Cognitive is centered on learning, and anything your child during their cognitive development age is learning. 

While children are explorers naturally, you must give them support during their cognitive development by providing them the ideal environment and tools for learning.

Which environment is ideal for the cognitive development of kids?

The right environment for learning is nothing out of the usual. You can start by designing the ideal physical spaces. You can designate an area for playing where children can learn from each other. You can seclude a quiet space for reading individually and for group work. The spaces should also be equipped with the right tools like LEGO blocks, glass boards and lot more, if the kids will be actively taking part in such learning activities: Toys for play areas and books for the study area.

It is also vital to understand a kid’s best way of learning as they defer. While one will understand concepts better through watching, another one will grasp things best if they are actively involved through movement and activities.
The understanding of this will help you create the most ideal cognitive development environment for your kids.

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