All too often, ‘learning’ is synonymous with students being disinterested, bored, uninspired and disengaged. Although there are many distractions that can draw students’ attention away from subject content (such as smartphones, other technology and social media), there are also many great techniques that educators can use to better engage students in learning. 1. Provide them […]
First of all, let me share my biases with you right upfront: I am not a parent I have 5 university degrees I have invested over $150,000 in my formal and informal education I have read over 1,000 business books and over 5,000 academic and journal articles With all that, I also can tell you […]
My book “Get The Best Grades With The Least Amount Of Effort” is one of the top selling educational products on ClickBank. I recently realised that not everyone knows what ClickBank is and what that actually means… So I had my graphic designer put this together to summarise it in one “infographic”.
This blog focuses on the general theme of getting the best grades with the least amount of effort. One of the most frequent questions is how you can increase your vocabulary and improve sentence structure … especially in a second language. 1. Read a variety of books, magazines, articles, newspapers & stories. Feed your brain, […]
As a reader or subscriber to this blog, you’ll want to have a quick look at my goal setting program I call “My Best Year Ever” – it will help turn your 2015 New Year’s Resolutions into reality, to create your best year ever.
Today’s youth seems to be struggling with the secondary effects of technology in and out of school. A recent Harvard Study that led to an intriguing book (The App Generation) explains the perils and pitfalls of apps that can do just about everything.* Their argument, and I happen to totally agree with it, is that […]
I just heard about this… Check it out! Kids Code Jeunesse is a Canadian bilingual non-profit organization that aims to provide every child in Canada with the opportunity to learn to code. They provide schools with trained volunteers who teach kids and their teachers computer programming in the classroom. What a great idea!
Last week I blogged about the value of getting a degree, this week, have a look at the counter-argument… Don’t bother to get a degree! Make sure you scroll all the way down to the end of the page for the “WARNING” if you choose not to get a degree!
You don’t really have a choice… please keep reading what the statistics reveal about staying in school… High school graduation rates reached a record high of 80% in 2012! That would be great news, if it wasn’t for the fact that this “record-high” rate meant a full 20%, or one in five kids, didn’t finish […]
For the first time in history, a woman has received the highest honor in mathematics, often nicknamed the Nobel Prize of mathematics. Since it was established in 1936, the Fields Medal had gone only to men, until Wednesday, when Maryam Mirzakhani received it in Seoul, South Korea, from the International Mathematical Union. “It is fun […]
A University Of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) study revealed that “well-off” parents talk to their school-age children for three more hours each week than low-income parents. They also put their toddlers and babies in stimulating places such as parks and churches for hour and a half more hours. A University of Chicago study echoed this […]
We know the classic line from Robert De Niro in Taxi Driver… “Are you talkin’ to me?” What might be less well known (or understood) are the following facts extracted from a 1995 study at the University of Kansas: Children in professional familiies heard on average 2,100 words per hour Working class kids heard 1,200 […]
Today’s post is edited from The Economist Magazine, it deals with a hot topic of conversation amongst parents and students. In 1693 the philosopher John Locke warned that children should not be given too much “unwholesome fruit” to eat. Three centuries later, misguided ideas about child-rearing are still rife. Many parents fret that their offspring […]
An increasing number of students are choosing to take university courses online. These courses boast a number of benefits for busy students, allowing them to complete coursework in their spare time without spending the extra time commuting to and from campus. That means you can study when it’s most convenient, whether that’s on your lunch […]
Lacking motivation to read more? This tip might help… 🙂 Or you could learn to speed read!
As college graduates take to the street, searching for the first jobs of their careers, many are unsure if it was worth it. Recent statistics reveal college grads made 98% more an hour on average than people without a degree in 2013, which is up from 89% in 2008 and 64% in the early ’80s. […]
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