Posts tagged education
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How To Optimize The Lesson Preparation Process In Online Teaching
Back in the days I prepared my lessons by jutting down timelines on paper and compiling stacks of copies to hand out during lessons. Nowadays, it’s a bit different. Or as the Thais say “Same Same, But Different.” When you’re teaching online you have the whole world wide web at your disposal: an endless array of…
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Experiments In Collaborative ePublishing
40 days ago I posted here on this blog that I wanted to try something different for the publication of my next ebook: Instead of going over the text myself over and over again, fixing broken syntax and hunting for typos (as an independent publisher I don’t have a room full of type-monkeys, unfortunately) I was…
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Why Serendipity Is A Core Requirement For Tomorrow’s Career Planning
Serendipity is a term that’s not easily translatable. In fact, it has been voted as one of the 10 English words hardest to translate. According to the Oxford dictionary it was coined in 1754 by Horace Walpole, “suggested by The Three Princes of Serendip, the title of a fairy tale in which the heroes ‘were…
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3 Simple Ways To Spot The Golden Calf In Education Technology
Every online conversation about education, every network of professionals has its share of it these days: The promise of new – of magical improvement due to technology, dressed up as the Redeemer of Broken Education, painted in broad messianic brush strokes. And in between here and then, a leap of faith. Facebook is supposed to…
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The Quest For The Perfect Whiteboard
Allegedly, the blackboard or chalkboard was invented by the Scotsman James Pillans (1778–1864) who according to his book Physical and Classical Geography (1854) taught Geography with it in Edinburgh. Since 1801 George Baron is supposed to have used a blackboard in his maths lessons at West Point. Although many schools have begun to replace blackboards with whiteboards, this…
