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Mar 2025
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EduTip 28: Add gestures to strengthen le...

JENNIFER GONZALEZ
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Research shows that adding physical or hand gestures to a learning experience, especially ones that have some meaning to them, can significantly boost how well students understand and remember the content. 

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