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56% say it is difficult to practice English with natives in the UK
In a survey published in Study Travel Magazine 56% of respondents, all students students studying in the UK, claimed it was quite hard or very hard to practice English with native speakers.
How has one industrialized country created one of the world's most successful education systems in a way that is completely hostile to testing?
Examining the nation with one of the most comparatively successful education systems on the planet, the film contradicts the test-obsessed, teacher-demonizing orthodoxy of education “reform”
(Cathy N. Davidson)Video: Behind the Scenes at a Chat with Jessica Goyder
A quick vlog of what went on behind the scenes during Jessica Goyder and Emma Butterworths Live performance English City.
vlog #TedxLondon
Brief thoughts and views from our recent trip to the brilliant TedxLondon from me and Jessie.
Check out the videos of the talks and the twitter back channel.
(Source: exploratorium.edu)
![The State of Digital Education [Infographic]
“Over 90% of educators surveyed said that they believed online tools improve education for their students.”
via: ReadWriteWeb
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The State of Digital Education [Infographic]
“Over 90% of educators surveyed said that they believed online tools improve education for their students.”
via: ReadWriteWeb
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(Source: knewton.com)
"The Right Kind Of Education"
CHAPTER 2 of ”Education And The Significance Of Life” by J Krishnamurti
THE ignorant man is not the unlearned, but he who does not know himself, and the learned man is stupid when he relies on books, on knowledge and on authority to give him understanding. Understanding comes only through self-knowledge, which is awareness of one’s total psychological process. Thus education, in the true sense, is the understanding of oneself, for it is within each one of us that the whole of existence is gathered.
What we now call education is a matter of accumulating information and knowledge from books, which anyone can do who can read. Such education offers a subtle form of escape from ourselves and, like all escapes, it inevitably creates increasing misery. Conflict and confusion result from our own wrong relationship with people, things and ideas, and until we understand that relationship and alter it, mere learning, the gathering of facts and the acquiring of various skills, can only lead us to engulfing chaos and destruction.
As society is now organized, we send our children to school to learn some technique by which they can eventually earn a livelihood. We want to make the child first and foremost a specialist, hoping thus to give him a secure economic position. But does the cultivation of a technique enable us to understand ourselves? While it is obviously necessary to know how to read and write, and to learn engineering or some other profession, will technique give us the capacity to understand life? Surely, technique is secondary; and if technique is the only thing we are striving for, we are obviously denying what is by far the greater part of life. Read More
(via adventuresinlearning)
Is ANYONE listening to students? Students Speak Up About Education Technology
(via Listen, Share, Repeat. « Cooperative Catalyst)
I invite you to watch this 5 minute clip from a student panel titled “Is ANYONE listening to students? Students Speak Up About Education Technology” – and think about what kind of real change listening to students could bring to change what “school” looks like.
(via adventuresinlearning)
Business English in Virtual Worlds
My presentation from the BESIG summer symposium.
Check out the BESIG site to see all the other talks.
