November 2010 Blog Posts
New Zealand and Australia are in mourning following the tragedy in the Pike River coal mine, in which 29 brave men have lost their lives. We at Creative Learning join in condolences for the victims' families and friends.
If you went back in time to, say, 30 years ago, and tried to tell people that:
you read newspapers and watch TV on your computer...
... in fact, a few months ago you witness the rescue of 34 Chilean miners from 700m below the ground....
If you said:
you talk your friends and family across the oceans via a personal computer...
... or via a phone you carry around in the street....
If you told them you watched the latest soccer World Cup live at the cinema in 3D,...
Adult literacy is an emerging issue in highly developed countries, one that will have to be addressed within the next few decades. Although most school-leavers can read and write, and can figure out 15+24 without the aid of a calculator, their education had failed them nevertheless.
Workplaces have encountered a huge gap in the adult work literacy arena. Employees are unable to follow written instructions, estimate measurements or use computers for anything other than games. And yet, in today's workplace, we are expected to think critically, create procedures and possess elementary IT skills.
Many adults can read a newspaper yet cannot...
Bullying is a problem in schools worldwide. Whether it has grown since our own schooldays, or is simply only now receiving the attention it deserves, is still being debated. One thing is clear, however: 20 years ago teenagers did not send threatening text messages, they did not post demeaning videos on youtube, nor did they impersonate the victim on social networks. Technology has changed the face of bullying behaviour...
... and yet the face of the bully remained the same.
It is the face of somebody who does not fit in.
While there is no excuse for bullying behaviour, it is a...