High school learners are qualitatively different than younger learners. You certainly can “teach an old dog new tricks” by understanding the cognitive and social characteristics of high school learners. Using the right instructional strategies to maximize the learning advantages and address the learning challenges of high school learners can make all the difference in their […]
The 3 Idiots of the Education System
“I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think”. ~ Anne Sullivan. I was conducting a Discover Your True Calling workshop at IIM, Indore last week. I […]
Robinson Crusoe and the Hand/Heart Dichotomy
At first glance, Robinson Crusoe appears to be what we know is true: it is an adventure story, plain and simple. Like Swiss Family Robinson. Like Kidnapped. Like all of those late nineteenth-century adventure stories by Robert Louis Stevenson. Even like Gulliver’s Travels, another eighteenth-century novel. But Gulliver’s Travels is about more than a guy […]
One Small Step to Generating Leads From Facebook
The Secret of a Custom Landing Page Facebook is here to stay. And lots of businesses are trying to use Facebook to generate leads as part of their Internet marketing Plan. Up until now, they haven’t had that much luck. This is when we stumbled upon custom Facebook landing pages and how it is truly […]
Platonic-Fullerene Chemistry and Global Economic Collapse
On the 18th of February 2011, the Cornel University Library announced a quantum biological discovery by two Chinese scientists from universities in Mongolia. The scientists used mathematics to explain why proteins were folded in a strange way within DNA, in defiance of the 20th Century’s scientific world-view. An extract from the book entitled, Science-Art and […]
Educational Technology
Educational technology is becoming more and more common in schools and this is a great thing. School officials, parents, principles and teachers all know that educational technology helps a student to learn more, learn faster and become more organized students. The limits are endless what a student can learn by successfully integrating educational technology into […]
Stages of Management
Management is simply defined as the art of managing people or getting things done by people. In this world of globalization, innovation and liberalization, strategies and policies for business operations are constantly changing. The business dynamics needs to be in sync with the competitive world. The business strategies that were considered to be the lifeline […]
Group Discussion Skills – Remember, Rome Was Not Built in a Day
Hardly a month goes by without some article appearing somewhere bemoaning the deficiencies of our traditional educational system. Even in the business pages you will find articles about how contemporary education is failing to produce students ready to work in a 21st century world where creativity, problem-solving, and independent thinking have become more important than […]
Writing Tip – Avoid Excess Adverbs
Adverbs have their purpose. They provide additional description about of a verb, adjective or other adverb. Unfortunately writers tend to overuse them. This typically happens when a writer fails to select a word whose description stands on its own. To make the selected word provide the intended description, the writer grabs for an adverb. Whether […]
The Challenges of the African Context on Biblical Interpretation
Introduction The existing response to the modern scholarly approach to biblical interpretation in Africa cannot easily be assessed. Some extensive research has to be done to discover what African Christians make of the historical critical approach to biblical interpretation. What is evident however is the clamour for a unique African Christianity and inclusive is the […]