Category: Children
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Homeschooling won’t save your kids
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in Anxiety caused by learning, Children, Education, Education delivery model, educator, Educator’s Journey, Home, Homeschool, Improve learning, Improve teaching practice, inform teaching, Kids, Knowing the learner, Learn anything, learner, Learner Centred, Learner success, Learners, Learning, school, Should we teach, teach, Teach better, Teach Better Now, teacher, Teachers, teaching, Teaching philosophy, You can teach betterThinking about homeschooling? You should read this first.
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How do you write really good instructions? Lego versus Meccano
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If you’ve read Sophie’s World by Jostein Gaarder, you’ll know that one of the questions that Sophie receives during her mysterious philosophical journey is this: “Why is Lego the most ingenious toy in the world?” The writer didn’t ask why Meccano was the most ingenious toy. And clearly, the answer has to do with the…
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How to win $15 million dollars for developing a literacy and numeracy training solution: Global Learning XPRIZE
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If you could develop a scalable, tablet based, individualised learning solution for teaching basic literacy and numeracy to kids in developing countries, you could win $15 million dollars. It’s a competition and it’s happening right now. You can read about it here on the xPrize website, and I’ve pasted in the details below as well.…