The Five Kinds of Students and How to Inspire the Best of Them
Almost everyone has that ONE teacher who sticks out in their memory – the one whose name immediately pops up in your head whenever the topic of unforgettable teachers comes up.
Education
6 Key Reasons Why Reducing Your Kids’ Screen Time Might Do More Harm Than Good
Since the advent of colour television, parents everywhere have been obsessed with limiting their kids’ screen times. The birth of the smartphone and social media has exacerbated fears that the digital world poses serious harm to the development of children. It didn’t help that researchers supposedly found connections between too much screen time and poor […]
Top 5 Work Abroad Opportunities for Your Gap Year
Gap years these days have become the fashionable thing to do after 13 years of formal schooling and before beginning University. Many have used them as a means to explore and learn more, both about the world around them and perhaps more importantly about themselves.
5 Innovative Ways to Improve Your Students’ Vocabulary
Fostering creativity is one of the greatest challenges faced by most people. When teachers create an ecosystem for creativity, student creativity blooms; this can frequently spill over to their homes and future lives. Creativity and learning are like the warp and weft of the well-lived fabric of life.
10 Amazing Sensory and Activity Games to help your Pre-schooler Learn the Alphabet
Teaching young children the alphabet is a bit like inducting them in to a secret society. ‘You mean these weird shapes and squiggles actually mean something?’
Five Ways Artificial Intelligence is Changing the Online Learning Community
The mention of artificial intelligence in the modern day world has been reduced to little more than a buzzword to the average reader. It is not often that we are able to properly take in the strides that have been made recently with this revolutionary technology.
Top 5 Best Portable USB-C Monitors: External mobile dual screen solution
If you are used to working on a desktop or workstation with dual monitor setup and wished that you have the same when you are out and about or working in the cafe, here are 8 best portable USB-C monitors that will make that happen.
Are Budget All-in-One PCs Any Good for Schools: Best Value AIOs for Education
Budget all-round PCs with little to go wrong, is quiet and have a small foot print are perfect for classrooms, libraries and IT suites. These PCs will not only perform well and meet all education needs but cost less, is more reliable and generate little heat.
Top 10 Best Powerful All-In-One Desktop PCs with Intel Core i7 processors
When considering an All-In-One Desktop PC, one approach is to get the most powerful unit your budget allows. Due to its design, you won’t be looking to upgrade yourself it in any way, not like a conventional desktop. Here, we explore ten seriously powerful AIOs with Intel Core i7.
Top 25 Best Free Stock Photo Websites for School, College & University Projects
If you need some images for your assignment or research paper fast, head over to one of these sites and nab yourself some high resolution top quality photos that will definitely wow your teachers and friends!
Free Educational Video Channels on YouTube for Children
Screen time does not always have to be bad. Given the right dosage with the right resource like these learning video channels on YouTube, you and fill your child’s screen time and allow them to learn a thing or two along the way.
F-A-S-T: The Essential Acronym Mantra for Successful, Joyful Teaching
Curiosity is, in my mind, the finest human quality. While many may argue that love is incomparable, here’s why I think curiosity wins.
Growth Mindset: Best Books to Read with and Encourage Your Children
One of my nieces is rather fond of reading. She has a large bookshelf that she keeps top-notch and up to date. She loves to talk about books and plans to write one too. My other niece is another story though. Whenever you hand her a book, she starts to whine, ‘I don’t like reading’, […]
10 Helpful Ways to Make Homework Fun and Engaging
Homework… The word alone is enough to bring on a huge yawn. Your children come home after spending a long day at school and now you want them to sit down quietly and do their homework. What kind of torture is that?
10 Awesome Tips to Make the Best of Your College Experience
Going away to college or university is a life experience that is often seen in the modern world as a coming of age experience. Leaving home, being fully independent, making choices and friends that can both influence and affect the rest of your life, it’s an exciting, yet scary time.
How to Encourage the Reluctant Reader – Top 5 Tips to get your little ones reading
When I was four years old, my father bought me a book I instantly fell in love with, ‘Milly Molly Mandy Stories’. While I could hardly read back then, I loved looking at the pictures and following the random adventures of a little girl while my parents read it aloud for me.
The 10 Best College Dorm Hacks on a Budget
After finishing high school, you go off to college full of hopes, dreams, and aspirations. You bid farewell to your teary-eyed and proud parents, your best friends, and your home. You take a last look around the room you grew up in – The creaking bed, beloved broken toys, dazzling movie posters and old pictures.
7 Best Colouring Pencil Brands for Serious Amateurs or Professional Artists
Colouring and colour pencils used to be child’s play… and real adults with real jobs would not dream of spending their time colouring.
10 Steps on How to Deal with Back to School Blues
Summer vacation allows you to delve into a leisurely routine. There is no fixed time to wake up in the morning, you can have pizzas or pastas for breakfast, and movie nights and slumber parties happen every other night.
8 Essential Kits to Get Your Child Excited About School
Some kids are overly excited about the new term starting while others can’t be more glum about it. However, one thing is for certain, almost everyone is obsessed with stationery supplies and kits. As a grown-up, I still get butterflies in my stomach when I come across a shiny box of crayons or scented fruit-shaped […]