(Photo credit: https://bit.ly/2G0o7Km) Learning and education is so broad, we can inject it into almost every single part of our life and call it experience based learning, however over the years there have definitely been trends. Today clearly it is about learning through technology and preparing our future children and selves for the internet of…
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? (Photo credit: http://bit.ly/2K5mPhW) I see this one again and again, not just in English but in pretty much all walks of life. How often we ask for some advice and we sit and listen to someone’s response to go out and do what they say and fail.…
Now here’s an interesting question about curriculums. There is a school in England that wanted to provide a summer programme for students interested in technology. There were perplexed on where to begin to start creating a curriculum for them. Finally they decided to just call it a programme on the ‘Summer of Code’. All they…
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(Photo credit: https://bit.ly/2Mhimdw) It’s taken until now for me to realize that in fact when I was teaching children for years, I really wasn’t like the other teachers, though I thought we were all the same, actually we weren’t. It took me until I heard some thought leaders…
(Photo credit: https://bit.ly/2M7n0vU) Something very few people talk about is what I would describe as the ‘critical mass’ of the classroom. This comes from many directions, but primarily is based on understanding the group of students as a whole and how they work together with each other and/or how they do or don’t gel as…
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(Photo credit: https://bit.ly/2NsUVgm) Firstly let’s get something clear here, I’m not talking about discipline as in teachers punishing students, I’m going to explore the idea of the role of personal discipline in the learning process for the student. In the past all forms of discipline were left up to…
(Photo credit: https://bit.ly/2SbjXH3) I think this was a famous saying from George Bernard Shaw – does the end really justify the means? When a process is underway that is full of problems and obstacles for everyone concerned, it is easy for the people involved to say that the drive to get the job done needs…
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(Photo credit: http://bit.ly/2eW87iP) This may we already be the case, not sure, but for the future it is a certainty. No matter how many Chinese or Indians are born – Mandarin or Hindi will never be able to reach the kind of global communication presence as English. It’s…
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