“People learn through play” is a statement that almost every teacher, psychologist, educational theorist and even politician can agree on. Play teaches a wide range
In the academic world this question pops up fairly regularly. It stems from the view of games as pastimes and inconsequential in comparison to the
Fun is a word that we as teachers hear a lot. Whether it is from students who are moaning at the lack of it in
Does education have to take place in a formal school based environment? Is school truly the “Work of children”? In 1989 Ray Oldenburg proposed his
The comic above was taken from “Caveman“, a great series by Tayyar Ozkan. This strip was first published in Heavy Metal, and is one
As teachers we want to see our students succeed. We want to see them accomplish the tasks we put in front of them and answer
At first glance the comic above seems to be chaotic and an example of someone cheating at a game. Of course, this would be an
The reason most kids don’t like school is not that the work is too hard, but that it is utterly boring – Dr. Semour Papert
With the holidays fast approaching I wanted to share some gift Ideas for the EFL ESL teacher in your life. (Remember that you can always
You can learn a lot about cultures by how they chose to express themselves through idioms. The metaphors captured by the idiom often can give
The traditional view of learning is that it is the transmission of truth from one human mind to another (see here for my take on
Learning is very similar to the wind if you are experiencing it you can feel its effect but if you are removed from it like, say, a teacher, it is an invisible force acting on the landscape that you can only glimpse through a window.