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A is not for Effort, But I Win Anyway
Imagine it: you're preparing for your final exam in English. It's a written essay like you've been doing all year. Except something is different: the entire exam is monitored on your computer. You're being filmed through your webcam, recorded on your microphone, and sharing your screen with whoever is watching.
By Lauren J. Bennett4 years ago in Education
Frequently Asked Questions in the UK Visa Interview
The United Kingdom is one of the excellent and globally recognized destinations for international students. Every year a large number of foreign students fly to the UK for higher studies. Most international students need to face a visa interview before getting a British visa, although some countries’ citizens do not require a visa to enter into the United Kingdom. Basically, the visa interview questions are about your institution, the course that you’re going to study and how or who will finance your study cost in the UK. Each of your answers will be recorded and will be used to assess whether you’re a genuine student or not.
By AHZ Associates4 years ago in Education
14 Ways to Immediately Improve Your Communication Skills
It’s no surprise that poor communication is at the root of so many problems. Effective communication skills are not taught in school; instead, we must learn them from the people around us. Unfortunately, we are prone to developing negative habits unless we are fortunate enough to be surrounded by exceptional communicators. So, let’s get started. The following are the most important, yet often overlooked, communication skills:
By Claudiu Cozma4 years ago in Education
Top 5 online courses to enhance your employability
In these tough times, the uncertainty regarding the career prospects keep worrying the students who are missing a lot of their personal growth, thanks to the pandemic. Here is the list of top 5 online courses to accelerate your career.
By shweta sharma4 years ago in Education
The Standards Movement is Garbage
I’m starting nursing school in the fall of 2022, but in the meantime I’m working on completing a minor in psychology, which has been my favorite subject for as long as I can remember. To me, the way the human mind develops over the course of the lifespan is absolutely fascinating, and, although I don’t yet have my degree, from what I’ve learned so far about human development, I know that kindergartners are simply not developmentally ready for standardized testing. “But, Celia,” you might say, “everyone knows that about kindergartners.” Well, friend, that’s what I thought too, so you can imagine my shock when I learned that, until recently, and maybe even still, kindergarten students were, in fact, being evaluated via standardized testing. Clearly, the people in charge don’t care that “the results of a standardized test at the kindergarten level have only a 50-50 chance of being accurate,” as it seems that they just want to test the kids (Miller & Almon, 2009). However, I do not place the blame on the schools. Every teacher I’ve had the pleasure of knowing is, at best, dissatisfied with the current state of the education system. I believe the party at fault to be none other than the standards movement.
By Celia Pyburn4 years ago in Education
Why I Kept Teaching After Being Sprayed With Human Piss
The child's face was beyond gleeful. His grin had that manic quality, the kind of expression I recall having at that age while running through sprinklers or being chased at recess. Unbounded joy, mischief and something electric, the experience of being utterly alive and free and no one could stop me.
By Jenny Mundy-Castle4 years ago in Education
Who’s Concerned IF Social Media Affects Education and E-Learning with 5 Teaching problems.
How to teach, how to learn, in the process of how to be educated is the foundation for developing our communication, personally and socially, for competent communities. We exchange information by using a common system of symbols, signs and behavior.
By Annemarie Berukoff4 years ago in Education
