If someone tells you they learn about a plane crash (Malaysian Airlines MH370), rarely do they quote the Straits Times papers. It was on the television news and youtube. All it takes is a few search words that are tagged for you to get to the news update.
Can We Teach Kids The Art Of Tagging?
What do price, Facebook, bags and the English Language have in common? It is tagging. Price tags, blog taglines, question tags, Facebook tags and bag tags. Facebook tags are like cancer cells in the bone. You can privatise or remove tags, but another one just pops up out of nowhere. If anything, it is always misused.
Shila Amzah demonstrates to us that learning a new language doesn’t have to begin when you are young. It may be slower for adults but as we know it, if we are able to entertain our hearts and minds with a new language, acquiring a new language is easier than we think.
Befriend people who are technological savvy (geeks need some socializing opportunities, so you are doing some deed to them) and ask dumb questions like everyone else who uses iPhone, Microsoft Windows 8 or Google emails. In the world of technology, dumb questions are actually good. It promotes the phrase ‘artificial intelligence’, makes it beautiful too.
Mathematics now, like many parents and teachers will tell you, is almost impossible to learn and master. It is literacy based, somewhat technical and undeniably challenging. And these challenges begin as early as pre-primary level. Even with all the mental mathematical skills in the academic world will not help you solve a problem in mathematics if you do not understand the meaning of what is being asked.
If you want your child to listen to you, don’t just sit around waiting for the world to demonstrate to you how children live. Start learning about them and their world. Follow the child.
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