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Category: Learning (Page 20 of 25)
I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think – Socrates
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Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world
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Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
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Understanding other people’s languages, cultures, etiquettes and taboos is of great value to the diplomat. Kwintessential is a homepage set up by a group of translators providing a series of guides concerning cultural patterns and management styles in different countries. Its purpose is not to develop stereotypes but to deliver an initial framework from where to start the discovery of each culture’s nuances.
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Author: Maria Teresa Del Re
Never heard of it? You’ll love it.
As pointed out by Atrixware in its site, the fatal flaw of many E-Learning PowerPoints is found not with the audience, but with the presentation itself. They are boring! And boredom is NOT an effective teaching technique!
Instead of looking at what makes PowerPoint bad, it is good to consider can be done to make it good.
1. Gain Attention
2. Inform Learner of Objective
3. Stimulate Recall of Prior Knowledge
4. Present the Material
5. Provide Guidance for Learning
6. Elicit Performance
7. Provide Feedback
8. Assess Performance
9. Enhance Retention and Transfer
Read more: 9 Handy Tips for Effective E-Learning Slideshows
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Curiosity is the engine of achievement – Sir Ken Robinson
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Which ‘mindset’ do you possess? ‘Mindset’ is a simple idea discovered by Stanford University psychologist Carol Dweck in decades of research on achievement and success, a simple idea that makes all the difference.
According to Carol Dweck everyone has either a fixed mindset or a growth mindset. A fixed mindset is one in which you view your talents and abilities as ‘fixed’. In other words, you are who you are, your intelligence and talents are fixed, and your fate is to go through life avoiding challenge and failure. A growth mindset, on the other hand, is one in which you view life as a series of challenges and opportunities for improving and you see yourself as fluid, as a work in progress.
The good news is that mindsets are not ‘set’ and we can cultivate a growth mindset to achieve success and happiness. At any time, we can learn to open our mind to develop our ability to learn new things across a broad range of skills. The more we learn, the more our brain grows and can learn more easily.
In this TEDx talk Eduardo Briceno, co-Founder and CEO of Mindset Works, explains the principles.
How much time do we need to learn a foreign language?
According to Joshua Foer, an American journalist who learnt Lingala – a Bantu language spoken in the North West of the Democratic Republic of the Congo-, you just need 22 hours spread over a period of 10 weeks.
He used Memrise, a web app that teaches foreign languages through a game based on the repetition of words and their audio pronunciation. The trick is to assign to each word a “memo”, that can be an image, a sound, a rhyme, a video or just a note on the etymology of the word.
The idea behind Memrise is making the study of a foreign language a fun practice by using the internet as a social gaming and by exploiting the potential of our memory.
Read full article http://www.theguardian.com/education/2012/nov/09/learn-language-in-three-months
David Schnurman, a passionate entrepreneur, in his post on Business Insider writes that if you have the right mindset and a positive attitude, there is no outside force that can stop you in your journey to success.
He suggests five resources to help you along that journey:
1. Inspirational YouTube Videos.
2. The Success Principles, by Jack Canfield.
3. The Secret, by Rhonda Byrne.
4. Regular Journaling.
5. Listen to Tony Robbins
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