Photo by Javier Reyes on Unsplash I heard a wonderfully timeless story recently about a conversation between a father and son. The son had left high school with his his high school diploma and had got a job locally in a shop and was making some money and saving it. Sounds good right? Well he actually saved $USD10,000…
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(Photo credit: https://bit.ly/2IRZ6F3) There’s a lot of talk and action happening in the artificial intelligence line nowadays. People bander around the term ‘AI’ but most people don’t really understand the impact of what it will be like on our lives. Frankly speaking, right now we have some key…
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(Photo credit: http://bit.ly/2kSI0Yk) Deciding to take on a new language on a serious level (e.g. using it for your job or to get a university degree), requires more than just sitting down and passing some exams. It requires a decision on the part of the learner to take…
Photo by Vance Osterhout on Unsplash If you are someone who has already been teaching for 5 years or more, I think you can agree that whatever you learned at University or college to get your teaching certificate, the only real valuable learning you had came when you were actually in real schools and actually teaching classes with…
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(Photo credit: http://bit.ly/2nZ5TkH) There’s only one thing worse than listening to a liar, it’s listening to a liar speak in bad English! This post is about not necessarily being a liar but about speaking from the heart. Once we speak from the heart we tend to be telling…
Photo by John Schnobrich on Unsplash Unfortunately today we are still seeing some echoes of the ‘Harvard’ and ‘Oxford’ approach to learning which has left some people in the new generation still trying to fulfil what their parents see as the ‘right’ college or university to attend, whereas in fact the real learning for 99.999% of the rest…
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(Photo credit: http://bit.ly/2nNS8EU) I had a laugh when I first heard the term ‘screen face’, but it really can be true, spending too long looking at a computer screen can make you totally expressionless. Something similar can happen too when learning either online or with a teacher who…
(Photo credit: http://bit.ly/2HhYpjn) When I was growing up, being generous was considered a ‘family’ word. That meant that when you are around family generosity was to be accepted as the most important personality trait to have. As kids we never wanted to share (of course, we were kids! We wanted everything for ourselves!) but we…
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(Photo credit: http://bit.ly/2pHc4tV) What use is a university degree other than being able to throw your hat into the air in celebration that the whole thing is over!! When I was young (1000 years ago!), to have a university degree was really something. It meant that you were…
(Photo credit: https://bit.ly/2DkclKe) This is an old phrase I keep resurrecting because I do think we teachers do need to realise that children learn anyway whether we are there or not. The only thing we can really hope for is that we do manage to have some impact on them. I remember moving from the…
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(Photo credit: http://bit.ly/2GimdHI) Why do we speak or write? To communicate. Why do we need to communicate? To pass on whatever it is that needs to be passed on to others. So do we opt to communicate in English? We opt to communicate in English because we have…
(Photo credit: https://bit.ly/2S2TkEB) This is an interesting concept that I’ve always liked the idea of. I’m not talking about putting children back into slave labour, but there is definitely something to the idea that we learn from experience, and if you have no experience, honestly, how can you really learn? The concept is really more…
