Colplex Multiple Intelligences: Bodily-Kinesthetic Intelligence🕒 Reading time: 2 minutes Multiple intelligences: bodily-kinesthetic intelligence. Multiple intelligences: bodily-kinesthetic intelligence. Most people might think we are talking about physical ability, but there is much more: coordination, processing and expressing information, and controlling one’s body and what it produces. In fact, what all these individuals display is nothing other than… December 19, 20183 min read
Colplex Multiple Intelligences: Musical Intelligence🕒 Reading time: 3 minutes Continuing the series I have been creating, musical intelligence also belongs to the multiple intelligences model popularized by American psychologist Howard Gardner. The concept refers to the abilities and sensitivities related to musical sensitivity, when producing music and perceiving it as such with all its nuances.… December 19, 20184 min read
Colplex Reading in the Classroom: A Door to Many Worlds🕒 Reading time: 2 minutes Reading is one of the skills that brings the greatest benefits to human beings. Through it we can expand our imagination, increase our vocabulary, learn more about other cultures and languages, and even “travel” to places we will probably never visit physically. It also develops our ability to investigate, experience emotions, and involves numerous… December 19, 20183 min read
Colplex Motivate Your Students with Learning Through Play🕒 Reading time: 3 minutes Learning through play is an educational methodology that uses games and/or video games in the classroom to learn content and competencies, and for teachers to assess them. Although both use games as an educational resource, this teaching method should not be confused with educational gamification because,… December 18, 20184 min read
Colplex Automation in Our Financial Statements🕒 Reading time: 4 minutes Automation in our financial statements aims to steer our institution in the right direction, not only from a budgetary perspective but also strategically. This is no easy task in times like these, when geographical and political events, exchange-rate instability, and… November 28, 20186 min read
Colplex Multiple Intelligences: Logical-Mathematical Intelligence🕒 Reading time: 2 minutes Continuing with the subject of Multiple Intelligences: for decades, logical-mathematical intelligence was considered raw intelligence. It was the central axis of the concept of intelligence and was used as a benchmark to identify how intelligent 🤓 someone was. As its name suggests, this type of intelligence is linked to the ability for… November 27, 20182 min read
Colplex Multiple Intelligences: Linguistic Intelligence🕒 Reading time: 4 minutes Linguistic intelligence is the ability to express ourselves through language, one of the characteristics that distinguishes us from other living beings. Verbal communication is also a useful tool that has allowed us to survive in adverse environments, better understand our surroundings, and form large communities in which hundreds of people cooperate. In… November 9, 20186 min read
Colplex Five Free Tools for Applying Gamification in the Classroom🕒 Reading time: 3 minutes You may be familiar with the term, but if you are wondering what gamification is, we want to explain that it is a modern learning technique that brings game mechanics into education. Gamification aims to maximize children’s skills through experimentation and play, since through… June 20, 20184 min read
Colplex Modern Teaching Methodologies🕒 Reading time: 4 minutes New teaching methodologies are changing educational environments around the world and driving better academic results for students. We review some of the leading modern teaching methodologies developed by teachers that every 21st-century educator should know. Flipped Classroom One of the modern methodologies that has… June 13, 20186 min read
Colplex How Can You Motivate Teachers from the Beginning to the End of the School Year?🕒 Reading time: 3 minutes Motivating teachers is essential, because teachers generate emotions and dynamics. A motivated teacher is fundamental to the principles of teaching. [Tweet "Being a teacher is like a running race: runners are motivated at the start, rested and prepared. Halfway through the race they… June 6, 20184 min read
Colplex Tips for Organizing and Making the Most of Your Study Time🕒 Reading time: 2 minutes Often, failure in your studies is not just about how much or how little you studied, but how you organized your study time and how you use it. Below, we offer a series of tips to help you improve your work and make the time you spend studying… May 30, 20183 min read
Colplex How Does the Use of ICT Affect the Classroom?🕒 Reading time: 4 minutes The presence of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in many facets of our lives has, in a very short time, changed how we understand the world, communicate with others, and also teach and learn in the so-called information society. The importance of access to information… May 23, 20186 min read