Category: Education

Elina Ingelande, IT educator, coding school founder

Coding for kids as a means of creative expression | Elina Ingelande

Programming skills are in high demand, and a career in IT can take you far. However, coding can open the door for more than IT professionals. It can open the door of possibilities to explore all sorts of hobbies. With...

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Warning: do try this at home | Mārtiņš Gulbis

Are you willing to wait for someone to spark curiosity in the children in your life? There are many great teachers, but for many children, the science classroom isn’t cutting it. But it doesn’t have to take much to turn...

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Public speaking needs more introverts, and vice versa | Davis Golds

It is often said that public speaking — the ability to communicate ideas clearly for a larger audience — is a skill for extroverts. However, introverts will often have ideas and visions that they need to share with the world...

What you see when you listen...with your eyes | Elza Volonte |

What you see when you listen… with your eyes

Elza Volonte has an uncommon ability: sign language is her native tongue, though she is not deaf. Having been raised by deaf parents, Elza holds a unique perspective of being able to observe two worlds simultaneously: one, where listening is...

Teaching science: we're doing it wrong

Teaching science: we’re doing it wrong

The world needs scientists and engineers more than ever, but our approach to raising them is backwards and ineffective. Drawing on his research and experience, high school physics teacher Danny Doucette challenges us to reimagine school science. As a physics...

Building a culture of feedback in every school

Building a culture of feedback in every school

[translation_languages]no languages[/translation_languages] [translation_text language=”en”]What do you think would improve education for your kid? Government regulations? Change of school or a new class? Ernest Jenavs suggests that we should be finding ways to improve the quality of education school by school....

Responsible parenting: Create memories, not expectations

Responsible parenting: Create memories, not expectations

[translation_languages]no languages[/translation_languages] [translation_text language=”en”] We all are familiar with expectations. Expectations laid on us once to succeed in life. And without noticing we transfer all these expectations on our children. But do high expectations help our children to succeed in...

Uncopyright me - Uldis Zariņš

Uncopyright me

Did you know that everything you post is copyright-protected? But does copyright work for you? Does it make any sense? Find out more in Uldis Zarins’ TEDx talk. Uldis Zariņš is a librarian by education and profession, a musician at...

Aldis Kalniņš: Maybe

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[translation_languages]no languages[/translation_languages] [translation_text language=”en”] For more than five years, Aldis Kalniņš has been working in a new field of interest, devoting much of his time to studying the questions and problems related to the education and learning efficiency of children...

From Inner to Systems Change

[translation_languages]no languages[/translation_languages]   [translation_text language=”en”]Teaching and education methodology doctor Zane Oliņa has been working in the field of education for over 20 years. Zane has invested her enormous experience, gained working as a professor, teacher trainer and teaching programme developer,...