22
Aug
Creativity is not just inborn. It can be increased by simple ways. Being worried and stressed out will decrease your creativity. This is because your energy levels when down will drain the brain cells and restrict the production of great ideas. How to become more creative is sometimes a function of how worried you are.
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21
Aug
The problem with student grades is, they can be doctored. There had been instances in the past when a student who did not want to disappoint his parents changed his grades on his classcards. Some schools in the Philippines have already adapted an online gradebook where parents can access the grades of their children online.
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19
Aug
With the growing popularity of texting among children here in the Philippines, one of the areas of conern of the Department of Education (DepEd) is the decline in their spelling proficiency. Several studies show that Filipino children now are poor in spelling.
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15
Jun
As an educator myself, I know how important education is not only in molding a person but in nation-building. In the Philippines, recent reports about aptitude and number of children in school came in opposing directions this year.
According to ABS-CBN News, the good news is, the performance of students in national aptitude examinations has improved significantly these past five years. Good you might think. But read on…
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10
Jun
In learning how to make money online, I have entered the world of blog advertising. For friends and regular readers, this is no secret. One of my favorite advertising networks was Smorty. I said was because at present it’s not doing me any favor. Blog monetization with this network is nil for the longest time.
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5
Jun
Of the three domains of learning or education, the affective domain is the most affected in Filipino children and students. I will explain this general observation further after the definition of some concepts.
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2
Jun
I have been observing my 6 Filipino grandchildren and even their parents since they were toddlers and learning how to speak. In my observation, children really learn different languages (dialects and foreign) faster and better than adults. I even recall an episode of the national Geographic Channel where it dealt with how the brain works and develops when human beings are still very young. According to NatGeo, babies/toddlers recognize sound patterns more receptively than adults, hence better in learning languages.
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26
May
A few hours ago I was analyzing my blog traffic from search engines. Web traffic analysis is my routine just to see how strong or weak is my blog’s presence in the search engines. I was shocked to find out (when I went to Yahoo’s SiteExplorer) that none of my pages are in the index of Yahoo. Yes, not a single one.
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25
May
I was pondering on this question myself when I stumbled upon the article of Mike Smith. What’s really the most popular video or digital game of all time? Maybe you are wondering yourself what the answer is. If you are a video gamer, the answer could be the most recent video games you’ve played like World of Warcraft or Command and Conquer. But hell no. You might be surprised of the answer.
According to Mike, if you are asking yourself what’s the most popular video game ever made, you might think of Tetris, Pokemon or The Sims? However, that is not the answer.
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18
May
Tons of articles on education and home schooling have been written and published on the internet. However, here in my own country, the Philippines, one of the many areas of education that is not so popular among Filipinos is home schooling. Why? Because home schooling won’t just work in the Philippines with the present economic conditions of the country and the society’s unpreparedness about home schooling.
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