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Fair deal urged
Learningpost, Steve Graham, Published on 29/06/2010
» The idea of having a contract between teachers and institutions is that both parties should benefit from the security it provides. Recent contract negotiations at my university have shed some light on the lack of understanding by Thai employers of the plight of foreigners teaching in Thailand.
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Metaphors for teaching
Learningpost, Timothy Cornwall, PHD, DTM, Published on 06/04/2010
» In suggesting ways to define effective teachers, discussions concerning the craft of teaching have often looked to metaphors to help clarify views about the complexities experienced in defining effective teaching.
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Real-time feedback
Learningpost, Edward Roy Krishnan, PHD, Published on 06/04/2010
» One of the major weaknesses of teaching is often the lack of time during instruction to effectively check how well students are learning the lesson being taught. Hence, a teacher could teach a lesson for a full period and not know how much learning had taken place.
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Lords of the air
Learningpost, David Canavan, Published on 06/04/2010
» Predators always arouse our interest whether we see them on TV or in the wild. What is truly amazing about predatory animals is their wide choice of lethal weapons and their varied techniques for catching prey. This article highlights some incredible aerial hunters. The next article will feature land predators, and following that we will review killers of the sea.
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Unplugged in Gadget Mad LA
Brunch, Andrew Biggs, Published on 18/04/2010
» America has gone iPad crazy. I know. I'm here witnessing it first-hand. No clever observances about Thai life this week. It's hard to write a breezy column about the nuances and idiosyncrasies of Thai life when the country is descending into anarchy and mob rule.
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Producing picture-perfect phonemes
Learningpost, Timothy Cornwall, PHD, DTM, Published on 20/04/2010
» When I learned Japanese, one phoneme, not found in English, was nearly impossible: /tsu/, produced by placing the tongue behind the teeth as with /t/ and bringing it back as when producing /s/. Easy to produce mid-word, I never perfected it word-initial, which remains embarrassing as the name of one of my friends is Tsutomu.
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Apex land predators
Learningpost, David Canavan, Published on 20/04/2010
» During my stay in Africa, seeing lions, hyenas, crocodiles and leopards brought on a wave of fear and respect for predators and their prey.
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More than just kicking around
Learningpost, Purich Trivitayakhun, Published on 04/05/2010
» After over an hour of intense competition, "Team-KMUTT", representing King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT), snatched first place at the inaugural "Thailand Humanoid Robot Soccer Championship". The team won a 200,000-baht cash prize and will be representing Thailand at the RoboCup Soccer Humanoid League, which is part of RoboCup 2010, in Singapore in June.
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Brazenly elitist
Learningpost, Steve Graham, Published on 04/05/2010
» With such a large turnover expected, it is important to make sure that we have the right balance between quality and quantity, as well as teachers and academics if we are to emerge from this transitional period with our education system intact.
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UTCC boosts IT skills
Learningpost, Purich Trivitayakhun, Published on 04/05/2010
» The University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce (UTCC) joined forces with Hewlett-Packard (Thailand) (HP) and Metro Systems Corp to promote the UTCC Hybrid Learning (hybrid learning) system in advance of the upcoming semester. The system aims to help students master IT skills and to move UTCC closer to its goal of becoming a full-fledged cyber university.
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