-- a great post I came across by Özge Karaoğlu, thought I'd share it with you -- "I believe as teachers, we are about to have the biggest discussion on education: How do we learn? Some of us have already explored the potential of social networking, media-sharing and other Web 2.0 tools though they are not ...
This article is a response to Hai-Anh Dang and F. Halsey Rogers research: “How to Interpret the Growing Phenomenon of Private Tutoring: Human Capital Deepening, Inequality Increasing, or Waste of Resources?” Dang and Rogers explore the rise in private tutoring companies over the past few year and the significance of this occurrence. They explain that private ...
It is my contention, as presented in previous articles, that a distortion presently exists in the role tutors traditionally held. Furthermore, I would suggest that this distortion has been caused due to the watering down of American educational system (but lets save that discussion for another time), and the generalization of the tutoring profession. Tutors ...
The notion of creating an environment where peers teach each other has lodged itself in my mind for quite some time now. … interaction with peers is an essential and often overlooked facet of education that needs to be utilized—especially in a digital age where people are choosing to interact less and less and become more secluded.
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