Learning how to learn: With these tips, it’s as easy as can be!

Many children struggle with learning. Whether the cause is a lack of concentration or motivation, school can quickly become a source of frustration and conflict within the family. Here you will learn how learning works and how it can even be fun with the right methods! 

These learning methods exist: 

Learning means gathering knowledge from certain experiences and retaining it. This is achieved by using the different senses. This results in different learning styles: 

• Visual Learning  
  These people learn more easily when images and text are combined. They place great importance on a pleasant learning environment or like to use colored markers to help them remember the material. 

• Tactile-Kinesthetic Learning, i.e., learning by touching or moving 
  These people learn more easily when they move while doing so or when they can use tangible models, for example. They like working with different learning materials. 

• Auditory Learning  
  These people learn more easily when they hear the material, for example in audio texts. They find it easy to memorize. 

• Verbal-Logical Learning, i.e., learning by reading and analyzing 
  These people learn more easily when they read and write texts or analyze overviews and tables.  

• Communicative Learning, i.e., learning through conversations 
  These people learn more easily when they can discuss the material with other people, for example in the form of question rounds or presentations. 

For most people, learning styles blend together, and it is even beneficial to engage as many sensory channels as possible while learning, as the material will stick better. 

For quality learning, one thing is essential: motivation. You can actively support this motivation, for example by strengthening your child's self-confidence. Praise them for their efforts and not for their performance, because it is important for your child to realize that they are capable and that learning itself can be a success experience, otherwise motivation will quickly be lost.

You can also learn how to support your child with learning in the following tips:

1. Create a study plan and set milestones

Since learning is easier when the material is well structured and divided, it is advisable to create a study plan. If your child starts learning early enough, the daily study effort is also significantly lower. This can enormously increase motivation. It is important that you support your child in dividing up the material, because the amount of material can sometimes seem overwhelming to your child and they may not know where to begin. It is also good to set intermediate goals to create small success experiences for your child. With intermediate goals, the learning process also does not seem so endless ;)  

2. Try different learning methods

Try different learning methods with your child. This way you can find out together what works best and know how learning is easiest for your child in the future. 

3. Start with easy tasks

Frustration is high if your child fails at the very first tasks. Therefore, it makes sense to start with particularly easy tasks and gradually increase the difficulty. This ensures that your child does not feel overwhelmed and that motivation lasts a long time. 

4. Take breaks

Breaks are important to process what has been learned and to regain concentration. Therefore, take regular study breaks away from the workspace to add variety and clear your head again. 

5. Avoid distractions

It is important to keep distractions such as mobile phones away while learning, because this makes it almost impossible to focus on the material.  

You still want your child to have the option of keeping an eye on the clock or stopping themselves when solving tasks? Then the Anio 5 is exactly right for you. Because without gimmicks like apps, games & camera, the children's smartwatch is the best learning companion for your child.  

After learning

After learning, of course, fun should be back in the foreground. For this, we have compiled ideas for activities with children in spring or for great autumn experiences depending on the season.

So, have we piqued your interest? Then head over here to our shop, so that you too can get your child digitally ready in an age-appropriate way and without sensory overload! 

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Your Anio Team!