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Tag Archives: education thoughts
film to nowhere
Last week my school screened the documentary Race to Nowhere for the first time in Thailand. Whilst I’m happy that my school is a progressive and professional place where a film indicting education for failing our students can be shown … Continue reading
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Tagged education thoughts, goal of education, race to nowhere, stereotypes, students, success, teachers' roles
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collaboration
Collaboration is easier said than done. In fact, it’s easier thrown around as a buzz word than even defined. I turned to Wikipedia, which suggests that, “Collaboration is a recursive[1] process where two or more people or organizations work together … Continue reading
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Tagged collaboration, cooking, education thoughts, freeland, mushrooms, organic
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where do we begin?
Sir Ken Robinson explains that the perceived hierarchy of school subjects (math/science as more important than languages as more important than humanities as far more important than PE and the arts) stems from the now inadequate idea that the “purpose … Continue reading
untouchable, entitlement, basics
I have been obsessing over Thomas L. Friendman’s book The World is Flat recently. I’m a bit late on the train. The latest edition was published in 2005 and all the hoopla surrounding it, both positive and negative, has more-or-less … Continue reading
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Tagged basics, bill gates, education thoughts, empowerment, entitlement, fail, flat, friedman, future, learning, rote learning, untouchable
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