October 16th, 2007
“Children see. Children do” (video). If you haven’t seen this video by NAPCAN then I suggest you to watch it now before reading any further. In fact if you get the idea of unintentional teaching from the video, you don’t need to read any further. Others stay with me for a while.
Most of us relate […]
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tags: Education & Learning author: Rise comments: 1 Comment
July 30th, 2007
Being a student for more than two decades, I always believed that listening to music helps me to concentrate more on my studies and research. But the habit of multitasking didn’t stop here. Multitasking also led me to believe that I can watch TV while studying. Soon I was watching TV, and doing my work […]
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tags: Ph.D., Graduate School, Education & Learning, Mental & Physical Health, Planning & Action, Getting Things Done author: Rise comments: 2 Comments
June 4th, 2007
What happened to genuinity?
No, not the word ‘genuinity’.
It doesn’t even exist.
I mean genuineness.
In a recent issue of a popular technical magazine, there was an article on networking for about-to-graduate-students. In that article, the author gave some ‘practical’ tips on how to build your network of prospective employers by pretending that you are not a job-seeker, […]
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tags: Ph.D., Graduate School, Education & Learning author: Rise comments: 2 Comments
January 19th, 2007
In American graduate schools, a professor gets promotion on the basis of how much money they bring in through grants, how many papers they publish every year, how many students graduate under them, blah blah, and lastly how they teach. It is sad that such an evaluation method forces many ‘teachers’ to focus more on […]
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tags: Graduate School, Education & Learning author: Rise comments: 1 Comment