Turning your classroom into an entrepreneurial laboratory
Business is at the very heart of the economic concept. While today's giants amass a share of the profits just as large as their size, there was a time when the economic world was made up of a variety of small companies in all sectors. Consequently, teaching entrepreneurship is a matter of course from primary school through to university.
Master the art of the spreadsheet
Spreadsheets are the tools of choice in various professional fields. Yet, how many students can claim to know the uses of these spreadsheets whether they are provided by Microsoft, Google or others? Fortunately, teachers can teach the concepts to learners. The latter can even self-train online.
Missing your failure celebration seminar
Organizing a seminar to celebrate failures will be a marker of transition for organizations. It allows us to enter more serenely into the trial-and-error cycle sought by learning organizations.
Determinism is not inevitable
To arrive in front of a class and feel powerless in the face of students with a bleak future all mapped out for them, is a frustration that many teachers can feel. But is the future really that mapped out? Since time immemorial, in ancient Greece among others, the question of determinism and free will has been debated. But is choice really that binary?
Curiosity: a risky practice, but a very interesting one!
When it comes to encouraging curiosity, students, teachers and administrators alike are walking on eggshells. We want to encourage curiosity, but not just any old way... Two lessons to help the curious survive.