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Articles on cooperative learning, active teaching strategies and effective classroom practice.
Does the Pomodoro Technique work? What research says about 25 and 15 minutes
Does the Pomodoro Technique work? Two Dutch studies found fixed breaks help less than claimed and 25 minutes is no rule — and why 15 minutes suits a classroom.
Wait time after a question: 3, 10 or 30 seconds?
Research says three seconds. The Dutch standard textbook says thirty. How much wait time a question needs, and what that number actually depends on.
How to write a good statement to divide the class
A statement that splits the class in two is easy. One that leaves something to say after the vote is harder — here's how, with ready statements by subject.
Roles in Group Work: How to Divide Responsibilities
Roles in group work: which responsibilities to assign, how to introduce them and when they are actually useful.
Grouping Students in Class: Voluntary, Random or Mixed?
Grouping students in class: voluntary, random or mixed? When to use each approach and how to split your class quickly and fairly.
Brain breaks: 8 classroom activities of 5 minutes
A tired class and an over-energised class need opposite brain breaks. Eight five-minute activities, sorted by what the group is actually short of.
Socratic questions: 6 types with examples
Socratic questions come in six types: clarification, assumptions, evidence, perspective, implications, and the question itself — with wording you can use as is.
Why I built LudensFlow
The best teachers I know are also the most tired. Why whole-class teaching still dominates, and why I built a library of ready-to-use lesson activities.
They gave me the calendar: How LudensFlow was born
A school in Antwerp handed every teacher a tear-off calendar of activating teaching activities — and six months of thinking about it became LudensFlow.
Why LudensFlow? Huizinga, play and structure in classroom
Why is the platform called LudensFlow? On Huizinga's Homo Ludens, Bourdieu's cultural capital, and why explicit rules make a classroom more equal.
15 cooperative learning structures for a lesson with steps, timing and group size
"Discuss it in groups" isn't an instruction. 15 cooperative learning structures with steps, timing and group size — ready for tomorrow's lesson.
Cooperative Learning Strategies: How Do You Use in the Classroom?
Cooperative learning strategies are structured activities where every student plays an active role — why they work and how to start tomorrow.