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Why Noise Keeps Your Child From Learning And How To Fix It
Did you know too much noise hinders your child's ability to learn? In Dr. Robert Cialdini's Pre-suasion, he cites several studies demonstrating how children learn less - lower reading ability, for example - in noisy classrooms. What do we mean by "noise"?Noise = loud road traffic outside the classroom loud airplane traffic AND lots of busy posters/distractions on walls in the classroom. What does noise do to learning? Studies show that only ~20% of children in noisy classrooms learned to read. When the noise was eliminated in these same classrooms, ~80% of the children learned to read. What can you do? Be aware of the noise...