Language learning: the digital helps, but does not dethrone the human

Many teachers still feel fears about new technologies and focus on continuing traditional courses. Others, on the other hand, rely on these tools to enrich their courses, without making an apology without limit.

And it is, indeed with caution that the professor uses today digital in its courses. She works in "reverse class," asking her students to watch video clips before classes to prepare them, "a way to touch different sensory channels." It also uses platforms to create quizzes online; or makes "clouds of words"to work on representations. Géraldine Larguier often uses collaborative tools, tests them upstream and then gives her opinion to these colleagues via social networks.

And if, purely digital applications flourish, some startups have made the choice to stand out by a human dimension through the 2.0 tools. Among these EdTech, we can mention Absolutely French, a startup that allows expatriate spouses to learn French. "Digital is a tool", but everything is based on practical experiences. "We started from the premise that we retain more of what we live," explains Armelle Perben, founder of the startup . "Thus, through workshops, learners go to the market, make treasure hunt in Paris, slip into roles in small groups or cooking. " In addition to these scenarios,"Digital is mandatory," she says. Absolutely French is developing an e-learning platform so that, with the classroom, fun exercises are available online. An application is also in preparation that will offer a word in French every day. "It allows us to make ourselves known, learn and review," adds Armelle Perben.

This is the case of Charlotte, 10, who has an appointment with her coach Abby, once a week. For this young Francilienne and her parents, although enrolled in a course of "reinforced English" in addition to its four hours of living language weekly, this was not enough. After spending 2 years in Singapore with her expatriate family, the schoolgirl and her parents were afraid that by reintegrating the French school system, her level of English would drop. "There are still big concerns for language learning in France," said Elodie, Charlotte's mother. With VivaLing, once a week, like a video Skype type, the girl talks with his coach on "Halloween, Christmas, sport or horseback riding",themes to which it is sensitive. And it is, in addition to the practical aspect related to the choice of the time slot, for the "hyperpersonalization" and "discussion" side that the Charlotte family decided for VivaLing.

Self-development tips for tech leaders

Setting goals, managing your time, being motivated and being able to focus are all self-management skills that great IT managers cultivate.
Despite this, skills classes for managers tend to focus around time management and organization. Here are some other self-management skills, and ways you, as a manager, can work on developing them

Keep your focus on projects
Maintaining a focus on projects, the mainstay of IT, seems obvious for IT managers but it isn't easy.

This is a difficult quandary to manage through, because it is critical for you to represent your organizations in company meetings, but you also have to keep your fingers on the pulse of projects.

The solution:
When you anticipate having full days of outside meetings, come in early and take an extra hour to touch base with your project leads.You don't want make a practice of having too many overcommitted days like this, but taking that extra hour in the morning has saved many IT managers the headache of having to straighten out major issues that arose in their absence, and that they could have prevented if they'd stayed in touch.

The plan of personal ability to enhance

No planned life is blind, everything must be planned, only then things can be done handy, well-organized. It is necessary to give yourself a personal development plan, so that the self can better adapt to their own lead. As a Personnel Commissioner, I am mainly responsible for the remuneration accounting, combined with the current characteristics of the work, from the following aspects to talk about my personal promotion plan:
1. own status analysis
advantage analysis
Doing things patience, perseverance, can be an orderly handling of cumbersome things, motivated, strong learning potential. Failing to calm, strong compressive potential.
Lack of analysis
Time management potential is poor, EXCEL office software proficiency in general, logical thinking potential is poor, poor expression potential, writing in general.

2. Personal potential to enhance the implementation of specific programs
Reasonable arrangements for the use of time, improve work efficiency. Book village net shucunwang.
Learn to list the list, the self to do everything to write down, this first allows you to always clear themselves on the task at hand. Do not believe that the self can use my mind to remember everything, and when you see the self-long list, it will also have a sense of urgency.

How to improve their learning ability?

In the human intelligence structure, learning ability is the most important ability, it is the foundation and premise of other ability. No ability to learn, other abilities can not be established and developed. How to improve their learning ability is particularly important

1. Clear purpose
Doing anything, the first is to have a clear purpose, learning knowledge is no exception. If the purpose of learning is not clear, even if hard, and then work, the effect will not be good. Like a person to the car to the east of a city, the results of the wrong way, to a Western city, the faster the car, the farther away from the destination. The purpose of modern managers is the six necessary, only to clear the purpose of learning in order to receive tangible results.

2. correct attitude
Attitude is able to make things dry half of the success. Some scholars put the correct attitude to form a style. The essence of the same is true, the American education professor Ken Dan said: "like everyone's character, characteristics vary widely, we learn new materials is also a variety of ways. To learn effective, the key is to know, And strive to cultivate their own style. "Visible, learning how to form the style of important. If you can correct attitude, to form their own style, will learn to receive results.

3. Develop a plan
Learning to work with any of the same, in order to be successful, in advance must develop a plan to be aware of. Learning plans include: learning purposes, learning time, learning content, learning methods, learning places, to achieve the results. For the plan to be strictly observed, and regularly check the implementation of how.

North Korean children 'forced to water drought-stricken fields at 5am' before shortened school day

As North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un steps up the rate of his hi-tech missile tests, schoolchildren in the hermit kingdom are reportedly being forced to cut class to water crops that are dying in a severe drought.

According to a report on Radio Free Asia’s Korean service, high school and college students in the north of the country have been mandated since mid-May to help water the dry fields from 5am to 10am every day.

Last week the Rodong Sinmun, the North’s biggest newspaper and regime mouthpiece, reported that the country had been struck by an “abysmal” drought.

It claimed that the authorities were involved in “prevention battles” and had dispatched 1,300 sprinkers and about 2,100 portable water pumps.

Pictures published by NK News showed at least three major reservoirs in South Hwanghae Province and next to Pyongyang airport in the capital had completely dried up.

Distance learning to reach 50 lakh by 2025, says VC of IGNOU

                                                     HYDERABAD: Students of open digital learning of Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) would reach to 50 lakh by 2025 from the current 30 lakh students, university vice chancellor Prof Ravindra Kumar said on Friday.

The university would add about 100 new courses in the next couple of months to the existing 232 programmes of 60 areas currently being offered by the university.

"There is wrong perception among the people that distance learning is an alternative way of learning. But it is a parallel method of conventional learning. The open universities are not compromising on the quality of education," Ravindra Kumar said.


Ravindra Kumar told TOI that the university had already been providing services in digital mode right from filling up online application, payment of fees to providing material to Prof Ravin and would reach 100% digital in the coming years. "Every year, 10 lakh new students are being added in the open universities in the country. The only way of reaching them easily and speedily is through digital mode. The Centre had allotted five channels of IGNOU, of which four channels have already been launched for imparting edu cation to the stu dents," the vice chancellor said.


He said the downloaded study material is now av ailable not only for students but also general public (e gyan kosh). The students of other universities can al so access the material from anywhere, the vice-chancellor said. The university has already set up Electronics Media Centre for taking digital and visual to the students.

Study VS. Blog

Today I bid on not particularly fashion-related photos - but the pictures (which are also taken here and now) illustrating another great job in my everyday life. My studio. I often mention my study here on the blog and the reason is probably that the study in no way linked to the blog. I read dentistry at the University of Copenhagen ie Dentist training.

It's really two different worlds I stand up to every day. In the morning, the hair flung up into a bun, and I run mostly around in my white coat Panum - Later reports the great events, and kittelen being substituted with rivet-jackets, camel coats .. etc. Sometimes there is overlap - and then I have to prioritize - which depends a lot of subjects and of course how much the event appeals to me. I often get questions like: "How do you make it work?", "Are you dropped out?" And "WTF Lida, how do you have time to work and Zumba and blog? Do you sleep at all? "Yes I sleep and I get 7 hours of sleep every night - but I will admit that I right now do not read as much as I should.

I am the type who 'take it as it comes' without lazy it too much - Unlike high school where I was totally striving and probably stressful to deal with at times haha ​​.... It is very important for me to reach all the other good things in life next to my study, so I can remember back in the study as the Fed and not only recalled reading room and dry lectures. Some people prefer to have a few things in their lives - I'm the type who MUST deal with 100 things at once - otherwise bored I am! Anyway what I wanted with this post was enough just to give you an insight into my everyday life. Now I'll throw biochemistry book down - Time to get blogger hat - Sandra is coming, OOTD be shot and later Hunkemöller event. Adios!