Posts tagged learning
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Teaching is Like Jazz
… a good friend once told me. (I just remembered this when I read Seth Godin’s blog) What he meant was that as a teacher – to him – it’s all about improvising. It is not about dealing out “knowledge” from the balcony of the Wise Aristocrats. It’s a huge misunderstanding! (Which is commonly practiced.)…
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Education for Better Living
Recently I spoke to my dear friend and colleague Jeremiah Bourque about the larger implications of education for our daily lives. Why to educate ourselves? In other words: “What are the practical values of learning?” There are of course many answers to this question, depending on how one defines “learning”. But the bottom line is…
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Remembering Comes After Learning, Not Before
Modern memory aids in language such as the Pimsleur language learning system and smart.fm are good for what they are designed for: helping the brain memorize information. I do not have a problem with their performance in this area. The problem I have is with those who would counsel relying on such methods as a…
