Just thought I would give a brief plug for my latest podcast. Every week I’ll be interviewing someone about learning English and the future of learning generally. It could be a teacher or it could be a student or someone else….we’ll see. If you are on Spotify would love your feedback or input, or you…
Photo by Matthew Guay on Unsplash One of the old school approaches to learning was to basically ‘train’ your students to learn things in a certain way. This made things easier all round for everyone. The teacher, the student and most importantly the world they were living in. The goal for any teacher and student was to make…
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…
