An evolving list of English for Asians goals.

I would like to advocate that ESL learning in Asia spearhead the push for 21st Century Learning. This push would require a swift shift in the ignorance and complacency of both...

Focussing in the wrong places

"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." ~Mark Twain “The past went that-a-way. When faced with a totally new situation, ...

The Future is Now

We live in a world where continued-lifelong learning and success in life is inseparable. To be successful in life is also to own the ability to be the sort of learner that can continue to learn with o...

Investing in our children's Education - Pt. 1

Parents as Teachers Investing in our Children's Education There are several things parents need to be aware of when thinking along the lines of 'investing in education'. 'SAVING' money in some kin...

Schooling and Learning should be synonymous

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School was the big thing for a long time. School is tests and credits and notetaking and meeting standards. Learning, on the other hand, is "getting it”. - Seth Godin on his blog "Education at the Crossroads".

Ideally, schooling and learning should be synonymous. But it isn’t.

It would be so much easier to do the typical school thing of giving the fish instead of leading the fundamental change in design that will reframe the entire thinking premise and approach. As with building any foundation, the blueprint must first be laid out and then the foundation piled on. Once that’s down to pat, the rest of the building can take shape in the speed of change.

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Investing in our children's Education - Pt. 1

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Parents as Teachers

Investing in our Children's Education

There are several things parents need to be aware of when thinking along the lines of 'investing in education'. 'SAVING' money in some kind of fund is not a form of investment, it is a form of saving, and when today's socialnomics rules have changed, 'savers' are losers.

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Becoming a 21st Century Learner of English

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Becoming a learner in the 21st century requires a paradigm shift in the way we were schooled about how learning happens.

Learning in the 21st century is about COMMUNICATION & COLLABORATION. Learning is a social activity. (Which refreshes the meaning of "No man is an island"). There are many communicative and collaborative tools that are available today that did not even exist in the imagination of teachers when you started school several years ago.

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