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    (0) All Prints becomes an Apple Authorised Reseller to Offer Educational Services and Technology to Schools and Universities in the UAE

    Dubai, January 2022 – All Prints, a leading educational and distribution service provider in the Middle East, has joined Apple’s network of resellers to offer educational services to academic institutions within the United Arab Emirates.

    As an Authorized Apple Reseller and experienced integrator, All Prints will complement the provision of Apple devices with its expertise in the educational field. With over 50 years of experience, the educational service leader will offer schools a holistic approach to modern day teaching and learning.

    All Prints provides solution-as-a-service and subscription-based services that support the use of Apple products in teaching and learning. Access to digital resources and e-books from All Prints publishers, in addition to its Learning Management System (LMS), professional development and deployment, renders All Prints a one-stop shop for software, hardware, technology, and education services.

    “With distance learning and the evolution of education, technology has become a key catalyst of change within the field. We have joined Apple’s network of Authorized resellers to leverage our books, curricula, and educational services which complement Apple’s products and services, thus providing academic institutions with the most up-to-date offerings in education,” says Nadia Khayat, Managing Partner of All Prints.

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     About All Prints

     Established as a bookstore in Abu Dhabi in 1968, All Prints has gone on to expand and diversify. The company now provides both educational and distribution services to schools and universities throughout the Arab world.

    All Prints is the main supplier of textbooks, educational materials and digital solutions to major universities, schools and educational institutions throughout the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and Lebanon. It is a one-stop shop that meets the needs of any school or university that wishes to go beyond the traditional textbook.

    Very much a family business incorporating family values, the team at All Prints works to ensure a personal, tailored service for each individual customer. We partner with schools and universities to make sure they have the best possible materials for their needs. Site visits together with comprehensive assessment procedures underpin the service and guarantee efficiency and excellence.

    Improve your child’s IQ and creativity with All Prints

    Children are naturally inquisitive and are always looking to make new discoveries. This is the purest stage of their lives, when they are exploring their habitat and absorbing all the information with wonder. Shop All Prints is the best online destination to buy a variety of Books, Educational Games, and Art Supplies  to feed their hunger for new experiences. At our Online Book Shop, you can find a special collection of fiction and non-fiction Children’s books that can help develop their IQ. These books will help children learn about the world through fun activities and exciting narratives. In addition, we have a wide selection of Educational Games and Toys, along with Art Supplies to help them explore their creativity.

     

    What you should know about Children’s Books, Educational Toys and Games:

     

    Promote creativity and imagination through play

    Learning through fun, engaging activities can be organic and long lasting. It’s no wonder that so many learning pedagogies have been developed with games at the heart of the learning process. Educational Games from Shop All Prints can boost your child’s creative abilities, enhance their learning potential and build their confidence. 

     

     

    Instil a spirit of discovery and innovation from an early age

    Educational Games and Toys encourage children to be imaginative and discover new ways of problem solving in a gaming environment. They build, create, solve, achieve and excel using creativity and logic, thereby exercising both the right and left sides of the brain. Browse through our collection of Children’s BooksPuzzles and Toys from our Online Book Shop.

     

     

    Improve motor skills

    Engaging toddlers in fun activities, which can promote their physical and mental development, can be a huge challenge for parents. Our selection of Toys and Games or toddlers and young school-age children can help develop their motor skills. As they touch, feel and use objects, they investigate forms, colors, shapes and sounds. It also keeps them engaged in physical activities and away from screen time, which in recent times has become a cause for worry for many parents.

     

     

    Encourage interaction to develop social skills

    Shop All Prints has a wide selection of interactive Games for children which can help develop their social skills. Multi-player games encourage teamwork and encourage children to collaborate, cooperate, and trust one another. You can browse through our collection of Educational Toys and Games.

     

     

    Boost your child’s intelligence

    Decades of research, carried out worldwide, has shown that engagement with learning through play in early childhood is linked to increased IQ and cognitive abilities later in life. High level thinking, which considers a variety of scenarios and helps spark new ideas, is closely linked to higher levels of intelligence and creativity.

     

     

    Aid mental growth and memory retention

    Children’s Board Games and other interactive games test their ability to actively consider how they can progress to the next level. This aids their brain development and can even be beneficial for children who require extra educational support.

     

     

    All kinds of research about education and learning have shown a direct link between retention of information and knowledge, and the level of fun and engagement in the learning process. Shop All Prints facilitates this fun and engaging process of learning through its Online Book Shop, which has a wide selection of Toys, Games, Puzzles, Books and Art Supplies for children of all age groups.

     

    Learn more: https://shop.allprints.ae/

    Importance of reading fiction books for children

    Studies have shown that reading is a skill that serves as a basic building block for learning. It is an essential part of living a fulfilling life. Reading fiction books can help enhance your child’s creativity and their ability to visualize written words. It gives flight to their imagination. It not only expands a child’s knowledge but also develops their brain in a constructive manner, especially in today’s technology-driven world with so many digital distractions. Most successful people were voracious readers as children. Children books can open up a world in ways no other medium can for your child.

    Creativity is something we assume a child is born with. We assume it to be an inherent and natural ability. However, creativity is a skill, which can be developed over time as long as it is nourished regularly and fed through the right methods. Reading fiction books is one such medium, which has all the right ingredients to enhance a child’s creative abilities.

    Parents can support their children's creativity in a variety of ways – for example, giving them access to good fiction books, educational toys and children’s games. One fantastic technique is to encourage them to read fiction (or, in the case of small children, to read it to them). Fiction has a strong potential as a creativity booster since it introduces children to new ideas and ways of thinking about the world. All Prints is here to provide you with a variety of fiction books for children.

    Fiction can assist you in comprehending the viewpoints of others.

    Fiction has a power that no other kind of communication has. It can immerse you completely in another person's thinking. It's a fusion of the reader's and writer's thoughts and the minds of the reader and the characters.

    You can see the larger picture in fiction.

    Everything in our universe has an interlinked purpose, and fiction shows us how. Fiction books provide us with an opportunity to get a unique perspective of the world. They encourage us to think non-linearly and think beyond the obvious. They highlight the main elements, juxtapose them against one another, expand on them, and depict them in a way we don't generally see.

    At All Prints, you will find a variety of children's books that help your child to study and improve their thinking ability. Browse through the titles today!

    Buy online through our website: https://shop.allprints.ae/

    Blended learning

    Learning institutions around the world have encountered enormous changes over the last year, and the COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly altered the way that many educators teach. Bearing in mind that some of these changes may well be temporary, others could be now setting deeply entrenched roots. Although the practice of blended learning has been around for some time, its utilization and constraints have been very much in focus recently.

    Here, we take a look at the fundamentals of blended learning. We will define what it is and then discuss the benefits of its usage.

    What is blended learning?

    To put it simply, blended learning fuses face-to-face learning with learning that is delivered online or through mobile technologies. Its aim is for each element to improve the other.

    In higher education, the implementation of blended learning is relatively common. The autonomy and independence of students allows for greater flexibility through online learning.

    Blended learning doesn't have to follow any specific instructive methodology. It can be real-time, face-to-face synchronous learning, or it may be asynchronous as per the student’s own schedule.

    Benefits of blended learning

    There are various advantages to using blended learning. Here are just a few of them.

    • Teachers can utilize a wide range of media and assets, which improves the learning experience and accommodates students’ varying learning styles. These include recordings, presentations, webcasts, and industry material.
    • Blended learning lets instructors to connect both online and in class, allowing them to draw upon the qualities of each medium.
    • Classes, teachings, and resources can be made or recorded once and then used on different occasions and across different classes.
    • Blended learning facilitates the flipped classroom teaching model, wherein students first encounter the learning material at home before working through it in the classroom.
    • It also enables teachers to provide response to intervention (RTI) and differentiation.
    What is social-emotional learning, or SEL?

    Social-emotional learning, or SEL, is an educational method that helps students understand their emotions, express their feelings and demonstrate empathy. Learning how to execute these practices assists students with creating frameworks that help them accomplish their objectives, make caring and dependable choices and build positive relationships with others.

    The benefits of SEL for both educators and students

    The teaching of SEL requires teaching the five main skills of SEL: self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision-making. When taught to children of school age, SEL skills have proven to promote positive relationships, increase academic performance, reduce behavioral problems, and have a lifelong effect on students’ future studies and careers (Schonert-Reichl, 2017).

    Students who have learned social-emotional skills are better able to adapt to emotional pressure and problem-solving and stay away from peer pressure. In the long term, these students are able to develop the skills that are needed in many jobs, such as the ability to understand their peers, problem-solving, critical thinking and team building.

    References

    Schonert-Reichl, K.A., (2017). Social and emotional learning and teachers. The Future of Children, 27(1), 137-155. Retrieved from https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1145076.pdf

    What are multiple intelligences?

    The theory of multiple intelligences was first proposed in the early 1980s by Harvard analyst Howard Gardner, and his research into multiple intelligences continues today. Gardner’s MI theory challenges the traditional idea that humans possess only one type of intelligence, defined as their IQ, and that this one intelligence is solely what defines their cognitive abilities. MI theory proposes that there are eight different kinds of human intelligence, and that every person possesses each of them, but to varying degrees.

    The eight multiple intelligences categories

    Verbal-linguistic

    People with verbal-linguistic intelligence are good at written and spoken languages. They have a greater ability to learn different languages and are good writers and speakers. William Shakespeare, Edgar Alan Poe and Al-­Mutanabbi were people with verbal-linguistic intelligence.

    Logical-mathematical

    People with logical-mathematical intelligence are good with numbers and logic. They can perform mathematical operations with ease, and they are good at solving problems logically and abstractly. Albert Einstein, Sir Isaac Newton and Stephen Hawking all had logical-mathematical intelligence.

    Visual-spatial

    People with visual-spatial intelligence are good at analyzing and manipulating large-scale and small-scale visual models, drawings, patterns or images. Leonardo Da Vinci, Vincent Van Gogh, Pablo Picasso and the architect Zaha Hadid all had visual-spatial intelligence.

    Musical

    People with musical intelligence have a good ear for music, notes, rhythms and pitch. Musicians like Mozart, Beethoven and Luciano Pavarotti were people with musical intelligence.

    Bodily-kinesthetic

    People with bodily-kinesthetic intelligence like creating work with their hands and utilizing their body and mind in physical activities. The basketball player Michael Jordan, the choreographer Martha Graham and the footballer Neymar are examples of this type of intelligence. Athletes, builders, potters and handymen also have bodily-kinesthetic intelligence.

    Interpersonal

    People with interpersonal intelligence are good at understanding and interacting with others. These people use both verbal and non-verbal communication techniques effectively. Examples of people with this intelligence include Martin Luther King Jr., Mahatma Gandhi and Oprah Winfrey. Teachers, actors and comedians also have interpersonal intelligence.

    Intrapersonal

    People with intrapersonal intelligence are good at reflecting on their own thoughts and feelings. They are self-motivated and have a deep understanding of human nature. Psychologists and philosophers like Plato, Jean Piaget and Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche are examples of people who had intrapersonal skills.

    Naturalist

    People with naturalistic intelligence are in great harmony with nature. They can recognize flora and fauna and are good at understanding the environment and its dynamics. John Muir and Charles Darwin are examples of people who had naturalist intelligence.

    The benefits of multiple intelligences

    MI theory can help educators and students better comprehend their own capacities. It assists them in utilizing their strengths to address their weaknesses. It can also motivate them to discover where their advantages and strengths lie and drive their capabilities further.

    MI theories are suitable for both differentiated and individual education because they enable educators to foster and adapt new projects so that they address their students’ strengths and interests. Educators can create instructions to suit their students’ various intelligences using a wide array of exercises and activities aligned with students’ interests.