English Teacher and Accent Reduction Specialist
Photo by Sunny Ng on Unsplash Well to be honest, people are people, we haven’t actually changed much in the last 2000 years, though the world around us has, enormously, and our perception of it has grown with it. But the fundamental thinking of people hasn’t. We still all get excited, angry, jealous, annoyed, frustrated, elated and so […]
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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 Ben White on Unsplash Currently the shelf life of general knowledge is approximately 5 years and the gap is narrowing by the day. Therefore, the days of the Encyclopedia Britannica being that one place where all knowledge is kept is of course gone. Now Wikipedia can give you some information that is current, but you need […]
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Reading Martin Ford’s The Rise of the Robots shook me up a little just like any good book should. The idea that technology, for the first time in history, is taking more jobs than it replaces. Typically, a new automation will shuffle workers into other positions, but those other positions are also being replaced by […]
Originally posted on The FUTURE of Learning: (Photo credit: http://bit.ly/2sbTd9h) English is a business, and I’m not talking about money making ventures, I’m talking about the process of building your English being just the same as the process of building a business. There are only two kinds of business – those that survive and do…
Photo by Dragos Gontariu on Unsplash In the old days we all had to learn at a fixed pace. That meant that if you were in a first grade class you would learn the alphabet and numbers, if you were in the second grade you would learn addition and subtraction…etc. Everything was fixed based on your age. If […]
Photo by Toa Heftiba on Unsplash https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhiQk3i6aA8 Gedr Leonard Routine really came for the notion or ordering something so that we would never forget it. But anyone who has lived and worked in a routine world can vouch for the fact that daily routine has to be the biggest killer of creativity. It dehumanizes the soul and makes […]
via How can we live without ROUTINE – will we learn anything? — The FUTURE of Learning
Originally posted on The FUTURE of Learning: (Photo credit: https://bit.ly/2mB8AXy) If you have ever been in a situation in a country where you are stuck and you need something badly, and you know it will be difficult to get, so you consider the ‘corrupt way’ you will understand the concept of corruption. Meaning you consider…
Originally posted on The FUTURE of Learning: (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…
Photo by Japheth Mast on Unsplash The world that is now set upon us demands our curiosity. It would be foolish to sit back and decide to set our brain to concrete in order to have stability, we must wonder. Considering this to be true, how will we actually be if we are not able to be angry. […]
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