Photo by Todd Quackenbush on Unsplash I had an interesting (or dare I say it – eloquent learning moment) just recently. I was teaching an English class and one student took me aside at the end of the class. He said ‘Teacher I was wondering if you could help me, I have a presentation I have to give…
(Photo credit: Photo by John Schnobrich on Unsplash) This should be a no brainer for any learner. The days of taking to time to stroll down to the library to discovery what something is all about died a death 10 years ago. The most probable place to get at least a range of answers to your question is…
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…
(Photo credit: https://bit.ly/2uUs39I) The reason why I have tackled this idea of boredom becoming extinct, is because as we move deeper and deeper online, we find ourselves getting more and more interested in those things that are of profound interest to us. Everyone is interested in something, so as the deep learning of the computers…
(Photo credit: https://bit.ly/2JI8bff) Just as the millennial now checks anything and everything online and then quickly swipes to the left, right or up or down, so too will the learner and employee. This is the backbone of the fluidity principle. Going back a century, we can see that learning was in fact all about building a…
(Photo credit: https://bit.ly/2JvRXKR) An interesting insight from Seth Godin http://www.sethgodin.com) There was a time when you needed to be MORE productive in terms of getting work done faster, etc. Now things have changed. Machines will do the job faster and there are more and more machines being built daily that will do it 10x faster…
(Photo credit: https://bit.ly/2ITAkAs) Formal education in the past (and still predominantly in the present) has come in two forms. The child’s play learning and the academic learning focused on adults. These two styles of ‘picking up things’ are totally opposite ends of the spectrum of learning. The child’s style being random and experiential, and the…
