The
Internet is teeming with suggestions, instructions, and procedures for
how to speak fluent English. It’s overwhelming for learners and teachers
to try to make sense of it all. It’s
especially difficult to know if the source of information is a person
you can trust, someone with extensive knowledge and experience in
English language teaching. To
cut through the noise, I asked a number of the world’s leading language
learning experts for their opinions. These are people I have been
following, collaborating with, and learning from over the course of my
15-year career. 34 of them were kind enough to help me. I asked them to answer the following question in 140 or fewer characters. “What is the most important thing to achieve English fluency?” My
objectives were (1) to provide direct advice from a diverse group of
specialists in the field and (2) to create a short list of
recommendations based on the responses I received.
When you're down and troubled and you need a helping hand
and nothing, whoa, nothing is going right.
Close your eyes and think of me and soon I will be there
to brighten up even your darkest nights.
You just call out my name, and you know where ever I am
I'll come running to see you again.
Winter, spring, summer, or fall, all you have to do is call and I'll be there, yeah, yeah,
you've got a friend.
If the sky above you should turn dark and full of clouds
and that old north wind should begin to blow,
keep your head together and call my name out loud.
Soon I will be knocking upon your door.
You just call out my name, and you know where ever I am
I'll come running to see you again.
Winter, spring, summer, or fall, all you have to do is call and I'll be there.
Hey, ain't it good to know that you've got a friend? People can be so cold.
They'll hurt you and desert you. Well, they'll take your soul if you let them,
oh yeah, but don't you let them.
You just call out my name, and you know where ever I am
I'll come running to see you again.
Winter, spring, summer, or fall, all you have to do is call, Lord, I'll be there, yeah, yeah,
you've got a friend. You've got a friend.
Ain't it good to know you've got a friend. Ain't it good to know you've got a friend.
Oh, yeah, yeah, you've got a friend.
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Teaching and learning in the 21st Century. I need to learn how to teach with technology. I am taking the course Teaching with Technology to improve my educational skills. I do not have sufficient computing knowledge, training and skills in graphic design, computer programming and authoring multimedia course ware.
"Education is simply the soul of a
society as it passes from one generation to another."
- G.K. Chesterton
My hope is that teachers will make
learning personalized rather than standardized for everyone. My hope allowsto improve students’ creativity
and teachers increase that natural curiosity with
learners. Curiosity is the basis of innovation. Curiosity will power our
world to progress. My hope is that you charge the
power of technology in thoughtful and incredible ways. Applied science can
connect everyone, everywhere, at whatever time. We should use it to our advantage. I hope for everyone to be able to discover
the things you are passionate about. I also hope that
you have remarkable, encouraging educators and mentors who try groundbreaking
and wild teaching techniques to help you grow as a learner. My hope is you are ready for the challenges as well as the failure. Making mistakes
is a way to learn. It’s not
about the disaster; it’s how you respond
to the failure. And finally my
hope is that your school is different from most of the current
transactional learning models, where the
students are consumers of education. Lastly, I hopefor people to be just educational learners fitted in transformational learning approach with
opportunity for active, creative and profound
personal development. Education can take place anywhere and at anytime. It is not only about reading, writing,
and learning mathematical practices. Knowledge is wide-ranging. It’s breathing.
Learning is the future. “I am not a teacher, but an awakener.” ― Robert Frost Halina Ostańkowicz – Bazan July 2015
Creativity — it’s our future. Essential Question:
How can assessment foster student creativity?
What is creativity, and why is it vital for success in school and beyond?
"How many of you have ever tried to take a free course on the Internet?" Over half the class raised their hands. "And how many completed it?" All the hands went down.
Music For Montserrat was a concert held on September 15, 1997 at the
Royal Albert Hall. Musicians came together to raise funds for the
Caribbean island of Montserrat after a major volcanic eruption earlier
that year had left the island devastated. The concert starred musicians
such as Phil Collins, Ray Cooper, Carl Perkins, Jimmy Buffett, Mark
Knopfler, Sting, Elton John, Eric Clapton, Paul McCartney, Midge Ure,
Arrow and many more, all of whom had once recorded at the island's
famous AIR Studios.
The concert was arranged and produced by
George Martin, with proceeds from the show evening, DVD and CD, used for
immediate relief and also helping fund the building of a new cultural
center in Montserrat. On completion in 2006, George Martin gifted the
centre to the islanders.
For Carl Perkins this was his last major live performance as he died just over four months later on January 19, 1998
ICELW 2015 brings
together researchers and practitioners from around the world, welcoming anyone
with an interest in the uses of technology to improve performance.
The ICELW 2015 program will explore
a broad spectrum of topics relating to e-learning in the workplace and the use
of technology to improve job performance. Our aim is to present the most
relevant and promising ideas in research and practice, then build on them to
bring about excellence and innovation in workplace e-learning.
