WEEK1

**Summary of First Lecture- Issues in Education- Eileen Gomes 15790901**

Since this was the first lecture of EDU4PIA, it was the beginning of our adventures of becoming future primary teachers. Firstly, there was a brief overview of the course, what is to be expected, learned and achieved in the course by the end of the semester. Also introducing the assignments, tasks and structure of how each week is collibrated. The discussion was based on teaching. Hows teachers are suppose to be effective and passionate about their classrooms, their children and generally the enjoyment of their jobs. Teaching can be stressful and overwhelming at some points, but there are different strategies involved to help teachers become more aware on how to teach their students/children. Options are always avalible. Teachers are there to help the students learn and build their knowledge on the various sujects being taught. One thing that stuck in my mind was the GOOD TEACHER role. How they need to be passionate, flexible, creative and make connections. How risk taking, asking advise and research is possible in this profession. I came across some websites, which give good that gives good tips and key elements of becomign or being a 'good teacher'. [] []

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 Author Zhao Weu Peng (BON) ** If you are  looking for a powerful learning style, I highly recommend J.P.Miller’s outstanding work Timeless Learning. According to Miller’s study, timeless learning emphasizes the instant feedback of present. What we learn in a particular moment and the reflection on this moment will become the unbounded learning experience and this kind of experience could be powerful to one’s whole life. We don’t need to think much about past and future, what we need to do is to fully concentrate on now, every second we spend on meaningful learning could be momentous. As an educator, we should be aware of our students and their feelings in the class. Every class activity you design, every instruction you make even every word you say might be timeless to them. Timeless learning is also multidimensional and it involves different characteristics. It is connected to the self-emotions, integrative dimension and others. It becomes embodied, relating to the integration which helps a person to live what is learned. It can lead to profound change in the individual and be transformative. In addition, it is often characterized by flow experience which a person become fully immersed in an experience.
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//Timeless Learning// by Miller : http://webct.latrobe.edu.au/webct/urw/lc13427940466051.tp13427940488051/displayContentPage.dowebct?updateBreadcrumb=false&pageID=14000936033051 images:[|www.thinkingtub.com/ joomla/index.php]



Author Haining-Lu** Dear group members,
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Have any one of you read the article called //From an Old World-view to a New// on LMS? If you haven’t read it, I strongly recommend you to read it when you have time.

This main part of this article is a description of what the world is likely to be in the future from the perspective of a five-year-old. Due to rapid changes in world population, economic situation, technology and many other things, the world the future generation will be facing is dramatically different from the whatever human beings have experienced during the entire human history. The article says that it is estimated that 90% of the world population will live in cities by the year 2020. Nevertheless, basic energy and water supply would not be adequate for everybody on the planet, as two billion people in future world would be inclined to live without electricity and over half of them will suffer from water shortage from time to time. The world in the future is likely to be borderless while Asia/Pacific area becomes a strong focus, with two super-big countries, China and India, which have over half of the world population in total.

People form their own world-views and personal beliefs based on their experience as they encounter the world. As the world in the future is growing into “a multi-cultural, multi-national, multi-faith” one, the job of teaching the future generation becomes much more challenging and complicated as to catering for their needs while taking a lot of factors into consideration.

All in all, there are plenty of worthy knowing factors and statistics along with numbers of worthy reading ideas in this article, which gave me a feeling of inspiration.

Hope you enjoy~

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