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…
