Crowd Funded University – The future or flight of fancy?
The other day I came across an article that showed how business men in Columbia funded the building of skyscrapers via Kickstarter campaigns. This renewed my idea of building a ‘own’ University. A University funded by the people, for the people. One of the current problems with Universities (and colleges, etc.) is, that many people
Using technology in every day class – Check ins, twitter, social notes.
The other day I met with some fellow Ed-Tech people here in Bangkok and while we were discussion different things some of them also asked how we use technology in class and how we handle the distraction that is always present. Whether it’s on facebook, twitter or any other social media service or mobile applications.
Educational Walls in Thailand
Mr. Gorbatschov, tear down this wall – Former US President Ronald Reagan The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something – Prof. Randy Pausch Those two quotes come to my mind all the time when
My favorite English TV shows
The other day some of my ‘Basic Listening and Speaking’ students asked me for recommendations regarding TV shows. I mentioned that I didn’t like learning from textbooks as well and hence learned from reading novels and watching TV shows. So I came up with this post about my 5 favorite English speaking TV programs. However
Inner-City Students can’t motivate their teachers anymore!
The onion network released the following video. While we all know that the onion is a great satire space this video actually might bare more truth with it than intended. What do you think?
