Blog | Fun Flexible Thinking Activity: Emoji Sentences
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Developing the skills to think flexibly and shift perspectives is critical in our interconnected world. Cognitive flexibility, one of the cornerstones of executive function, plays an important role in school performance, growth mindset, and reducing students’ stress in school and life. From preschool students to college students and adults in the workplace, it is more important than ever to think flexibly.
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Before students can engage in more advanced cognitive flexibility exercises that touch on personal experiences, it can help to demonstrate what it means to think flexibly with low-stakes activities such as multiple-meaning words and phrases. Understanding the double meaning of jokes makes for an excellent flexible thinking activity or warmup. Fun flexible thinking activities can even be as simple as deciphering the meaning of emoji sentences.
Blog | Fun Flexible Thinking Activity: Emoji Sentences
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