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 Celebrities / Re: Ruby Uche Celebrates Her 21st Birthday With A New Car by bukiboy(m): 12:52pm On Aug 01, 2020 |
Firstlady25: We need examples |
| Celebrities / Re: Ruby Uche Celebrates Her 21st Birthday With A New Car by bukiboy(m): 12:50pm On Aug 01, 2020 |
YelloweWest: Tell us more |
| Celebrities / Re: Ruby Uche Celebrates Her 21st Birthday With A New Car by bukiboy(m): 12:49pm On Aug 01, 2020 |
Abeg new car get levels. Is it brand new car with zero millage or tokunbo? I don't understand why this one dey make front page. Povery don reduce Nigerians to dey celebrate mediocrity. |
| Politics / Re: Insecurity: Nigerians Know We Have Done Our Best – Buhari by bukiboy(m): 12:44pm On Aug 01, 2020 |
Supan: Does he really have anything in his head? PDP must come and learn how to loot Nigeria from Buhari (Mr. Integrity) and his friends. 2 Likes |
| Phones / Re: Unbox Therapy Reviews Infinix Note 7 (video) by bukiboy(m): 5:43pm On Apr 25, 2020 |
Ovie56: You're very on point. 1 Like |
| Phones / Re: Huawei Android Loss: How It Affects You by bukiboy(m): 2:50pm On May 21, 2019 |
which of the Huawei phone you get and how much? blessingventures: |
| Business / Re: Ship From Any States In U.S.A To Nigeria by bukiboy(m): 7:34pm On Feb 15, 2019 |
Kindly advice on a legit freight to use in bringing stuff from the US to Nigeria. thanks desmond2pk: 1 Like |
| Career / Re: Resigning My Position To Pursue My Goal: Advice Needed by bukiboy(m): 4:54pm On Jan 18, 2019 |
Gilaso: Best of Luck. |
| Career / Re: Resigning My Position To Pursue My Goal: Advice Needed by bukiboy(m): 3:38pm On Jan 12, 2019 |
Kobicove: Enrolling for a part-time Master's degree is not chasing your dream. |
| Properties / Re: Please Help, How Do I Stop My Landlord From Locking Me Outside Everyday? by bukiboy(m): 4:52pm On Dec 28, 2018 |
Let your lawyer talk to him Jerryembassy91: 1 Like |
| Religion / Re: Pastor Chris Oyakhilome Gets Jet Plane Gift From Loveworld Music & Arts Group by bukiboy(m): 1:03pm On Dec 25, 2017 |
| Fashion / Re: Very Good Tailor In Abuja by bukiboy(m): 6:50pm On Dec 06, 2017 |
SELFmade7: what kind of fabrics |
| Education / 3 Rules To Spark Learning ~ Ramsey Musallam by bukiboy(m): 4:17pm On Dec 06, 2017 |
Ramsey Musallam at TED Talks Education 3 rules to spark learning I teach chemistry. 00:14 (Explosion) 00:16 All right, all right. So more than just explosions, chemistry is everywhere. Have you ever found yourself at a restaurant spacing out just doing this over and over? Some people nodding yes. Recently, I showed this to my students, and I just asked them to try and explain why it happened. The questions and conversations that followed were fascinating. Check out this video that Maddie from my period three class sent me that evening. 00:56 (Clang) (Laughs) 00:59 Now obviously, as Maddie's chemistry teacher, I love that she went home and continued to geek out about this kind of ridiculous demonstration that we did in class. But what fascinated me more is that Maddie's curiosity took her to a new level. If you look inside that beaker, you might see a candle. Maddie's using temperature to extend this phenomenon to a new scenario. 01:23 You know, questions and curiosity like Maddie's are magnets that draw us towards our teachers, and they transcend all technology or buzzwords in education. But if we place these technologies before student inquiry, we can be robbing ourselves of our greatest tool as teachers: our students' questions. For example, flipping a boring lecture from the classroom to the screen of a mobile device might save instructional time, but if it is the focus of our students' experience, it's the same dehumanizing chatter just wrapped up in fancy clothing. But if instead we have the guts to confuse our students, perplex them, and evoke real questions, through those questions, we as teachers have information that we can use to tailor robust and informed methods of blended instruction. 02:20 So, 21st-century lingo jargon mumbo jumbo aside, the truth is, I've been teaching for 13 years now, and it took a life-threatening situation to snap me out of 10 years of pseudo-teaching and help me realize that student questions are the seeds of real learning, not some scripted curriculum that gave them tidbits of random information. 02:47 In May of 2010, at 35 years old, with a two-year-old at home and my second child on the way, I was diagnosed with a large aneurysm at the base of my thoracic aorta. This led to open-heart surgery. This is the actual real email from my doctor right there. Now, when I got this, I was -- press Caps Lock -- absolutely freaked out, okay? But I found surprising moments of comfort in the confidence that my surgeon embodied. Where did this guy get this confidence, the audacity of it? 03:21 So when I asked him, he told me three things. He said first, his curiosity drove him to ask hard questions about the procedure, about what worked and what didn't work. Second, he embraced, and didn't fear, the messy process of trial and error, the inevitable process of trial and error. And third, through intense reflection, he gathered the information that he needed to design and revise the procedure, and then, with a steady hand, he saved my life. 03:52 Now I absorbed a lot from these words of wisdom, and before I went back into the classroom that fall, I wrote down three rules of my own that I bring to my lesson planning still today. Rule number one: Curiosity comes first. Questions can be windows to great instruction, but not the other way around. Rule number two: Embrace the mess. We're all teachers. We know learning is ugly. And just because the scientific method is allocated to page five of section 1.2 of chapter one of the one that we all skip, okay, trial and error can still be an informal part of what we do every single day at Sacred Heart Cathedral in room 206. And rule number three: Practice reflection. What we do is important. It deserves our care, but it also deserves our revision. Can we be the surgeons of our classrooms? As if what we are doing one day will save lives. Our students our worth it. And each case is different. 04:57 (Explosion) 04:58 All right. Sorry. The chemistry teacher in me just needed to get that out of my system before we move on. 05:05 So these are my daughters. On the right we have little Emmalou -- Southern family. And, on the left, Riley. Now Riley's going to be a big girl in a couple weeks here. She's going to be four years old, and anyone who knows a four-year-old knows that they love to ask, "Why?" Yeah. Why. I could teach this kid anything because she is curious about everything. We all were at that age. But the challenge is really for Riley's future teachers, the ones she has yet to meet. How will they grow this curiosity? 05:41 You see, I would argue that Riley is a metaphor for all kids, and I think dropping out of school comes in many different forms -- to the senior who's checked out before the year's even begun or that empty desk in the back of an urban middle school's classroom. But if we as educators leave behind this simple role as disseminators of content and embrace a new paradigm as cultivators of curiosity and inquiry, we just might bring a little bit more meaning to their school day, and spark their imagination. 06:14 Thank you very much. 06:15 (Applause) Ramsey Musallam · Educator As a high school chemistry teacher, Ramsey Musallam expands curiosity in the classroom through multimedia and new technology. https://www.ted.com/talks/ramsey_musallam_3_rules_to_spark_learning#t-373655 |
| Religion / Re: Pastor Chris Oyakhilome Gets Jet Plane Gift From Loveworld Music & Arts Group by bukiboy(m): 4:02pm On Dec 06, 2017 |
| Education / How To Escape Education's Death Valley. ~ Sir Ken Robinson. by bukiboy(m): 4:00pm On Dec 06, 2017 |
Sir Ken Robinson at TED Talks Education How to escape education's death valley. I moved to America 12 years ago with my wife Terry and our two kids. Actually, truthfully, we moved to Los Angeles -- thinking we were moving to America, but anyway -- It's a short plane ride from Los Angeles to America. I got here 12 years ago, and when I got here, I was told various things, like, "Americans don't get irony." Have you come across this idea? It's not true. I've travelled the whole length and breadth of this country. I have found no evidence that Americans don't get irony. It's one of those cultural myths, like, "The British are reserved." I don't know why people think this. We've invaded every country we've encountered. But it's not true Americans don't get irony, but I just want you to know that that's what people are saying about you behind your back. You know, so when you leave living rooms in Europe, people say, thankfully, nobody was ironic in your presence. But I knew that Americans get irony when I came across that legislation, "No Child Left Behind." Because whoever thought of that title gets irony. Don't they? Because it's leaving millions of children behind. Now I can see that's not a very attractive name for legislation:"Millions of Children Left Behind." I can see that. What's the plan? We propose to leave millions of children behind, and here's how it's going to work. And it's working beautifully. In some parts of the country, 60 percent of kids drop out of high school. In the Native American communities, it's 80 percent of kids. If we halved that number, one estimate is it would create a net gain to the U.S. economy over 10 years, of nearly a trillion dollars. From an economic point of view, this is good math, isn't it, that we should do this? It actually costs an enormous amount to mop up the damage from the dropout crisis. But the dropout crisis is just the tip of an iceberg. What it doesn't count are all the kids who are in school but being disengaged from it, who don't enjoy it, who don't get any real benefit from it. And the reason is not that we're not spending enough money. America spends more money on education than most other countries. Class sizes are smaller than in many countries. And there are hundreds of initiatives every year to try and improve education. The trouble is, it's all going in the wrong direction. There are three principles on which human life flourishes, and they are contradicted by the culture of education under which most teachers have to labour and most students have to endure. The first is this, that human beings are naturally different and diverse. Can I ask you, how many of you have got children of your own? Okay. Or grandchildren. How about two children or more? Right. And the rest of you have seen such children. Small people wandering about. I will make you a bet, and I am confident that I will win the bet. If you've got two children or more, I bet you they are completely different from each other. Aren't they? You would never confuse them, would you? Like, "Which one are you? Remind me." "Your mother and I need some colour-coding system so we don't get confused." Education under "No Child Left Behind" is based on not diversity but conformity. What schools are encouraged to do is to find out what kids can do across a very narrow spectrum of achievement. One of the effects of "No Child Left Behind" has been to narrow the focus onto the so-called STEM disciplines. They're very important. I'm not here to argue against science and math. On the contrary, they're necessary but they're not sufficient. A real education has to give equal weight to the arts, the humanities, to physical education. An awful lot of kids, sorry, thank you One estimate in America currently is that something like 10 percent of kids, getting on that way, are being diagnosed with various conditions under the broad title of attention deficit disorder. ADHD. I'm not saying there's no such thing. I just don't believe it's an epidemic like this. If you sit kids down, hour after hour, doing low-grade clerical work, don't be surprised if they start to fidget, you know? Children are not, for the most part, suffering from a psychological condition. They're suffering from childhood. And I know this because I spent my early life as a child. I went through the whole thing. Kids prosper best with a broad curriculum that celebrates their various talents, not just a small range of them. And by the way, the arts aren't just important because they improve math scores. They're important because they speak to parts of children's being which are otherwise untouched. The second, thank you -- The second principle that drives human life flourishing is curiosity. If you can light the spark of curiosity in a child, they will learn without any further assistance, very often. Children are natural learners. It's a real achievement to put that particular ability out, or to stifle it. Curiosity is the engine of achievement. Now the reason I say this is because one of the effects of the current culture here, if I can say so, has been to de-professionalize teachers. There is no system in the world or any school in the country that is better than its teachers. Teachers are the lifeblood of the success of schools. But teaching is a creative profession.Teaching, properly conceived, is not a delivery system. You know, you're not there just to pass on received information. Great teachers do that, but what great teachers also do is mentor, stimulate, provoke, engage.You see, in the end, education is about learning. If there's no learning going on, there's no education going on. And people can spend an awful lot of time discussing education without ever discussing learning. The whole point of education is to get people to learn. An old friend of mine -- actually very old, he's dead. That's as old as it gets, I'm afraid. But a wonderful guy he was, wonderful philosopher. He used to talk about the difference between the task and achievement senses of verbs. You can be engaged in the activity of something, but not really be achieving it, like dieting. It's a very good example. There he is. He's dieting. Is he losing any weight? Not really. Teaching is a word like that. You can say, "There's Deborah, she's in room 34, she's teaching." But if nobody's learning anything, she may be engaged in the task of teaching but not actually fulfilling it. The role of a teacher is to facilitate learning. That's it. And part of the problem is, I think, that the dominant culture of education has come to focus on not teaching and learning, but testing. Now, testing is important.Standardized tests have a place. But they should not be the dominant culture of education. They should be diagnostic. They should help. If I go for a medical examination, I want some standardized tests. I do. I want to know what my cholesterol level is compared to everybody else's on a standard scale. I don't want to be told on some scale my doctor invented in the car. "Your cholesterol is what I call Level Orange." "Really?" "Is that good?" "We don't know." But all that should support learning. It shouldn't obstruct it, which of course it often does. So in place of curiosity, what we have is a culture of compliance. Our children and teachers are encouraged to follow routine algorithms rather than to excite that power of imagination and curiosity. And the third principle is this: that human life is inherently creative. It's why we all have different résumés. We create our lives, and we can recreate them as we go through them. It's the common currency of being a human being. It's why human culture is so interesting and diverse and dynamic. I mean, other animals may well have imaginations and creativity, but it's not so much in evidence, is it, as ours? I mean, you may have a dog. And your dog may get depressed. You know, but it doesn't listen to Radiohead, does it? And sit staring out the window with a bottle of Jack Daniels. "Would you like to come for a walk?" "No, I'm fine." "You go. I'll wait. But take pictures." We all create our own lives through this restless process of imagining alternatives and possibilities, and one of the roles of education is to awaken and develop these powers of creativity. Instead, what we have is a culture of standardization. Now, it doesn't have to be that way. It really doesn't. Finland regularly comes out on top in math, science and reading. Now, we only know that's what they do well at, because that's all that's being tested. That's one of the problems of the test. They don't look for other things that matter just as much. The thing about work in Finland is this: they don't obsess about those disciplines. They have a very broad approach to education, which includes humanities, physical education, the arts. Second, there is no standardized testing in Finland. I mean, there's a bit, but it's not what gets people up in the morning, what keeps them at their desks. The third thing -- and I was at a meeting recently with some people from Finland, actual Finnish people, and somebody from the American system was saying to the people in Finland, "What do you do about the drop-out rate in Finland?" And they all looked a bit bemused, and said, "Well, we don't have one. Why would you drop out? If people are in trouble, we get to them quite quickly and we help and support them." Now people always say, "Well, you know, you can't compare Finland to America." No. I think there's a population of around five million in Finland. But you can compare it to a state in America. Many states in America have fewer people in them than that. I mean, I've been to some states in America and I was the only person there. Really. Really. I was asked to lock up when I left. But what all the high-performing systems in the world do is currently what is not evident, sadly, across the systems in America -- I mean, as a whole. One is this: they individualize teaching and learning. They recognize that it's students who are learning and the system has to engage them, their curiosity, their individuality, and their creativity. That's how you get them to learn. The second is that they attribute a very high status to the teaching profession. They recognize that you can't improve education if you don't pick great people to teach and keep giving them constant support and professional development. Investing in professional development is not a cost. It's an investment, and every other country that's succeeding well knows that, whether it's Australia, Canada, South Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong or Shanghai. They know that to be the case. And the third is, they devolve responsibility to the school level for getting the job done. You see, there's a big difference here between going into a mode of command and control in education -- That's what happens in some systems. Central or state governments decide, they know best and they're going to tell you what to do.The trouble is that education doesn't go on in the committee rooms of our legislative buildings. It happens in classrooms and schools, and the people who do it are the teachers and the students, and if you remove their discretion, it stops working. You have to put it back to the people. There is wonderful work happening in this country. But I have to say it's happening in spite of the dominant culture of education, not because of it. It's like people are sailing into a headwind all the time. And the reason I think is this: that many of the current policies are based on mechanistic conceptions of education. It's like education is an industrial process that can be improved just by having better data, and somewhere in the back of the mind of some policy makers is this idea that if we fine-tune it well enough, if we just get it right, it will all hum along perfectly into the future. It won't, and it never did. The point is that education is not a mechanical system. It's a human system. It's about people, people who either do want to learn or don't want to learn. Every student who drops out of school has a reason for it which is rooted in their own biography. They may find it boring. They may find it irrelevant. They may find that it's at odds with the life they're living outside of school. There are trends, but the stories are always unique. I was at a meeting recently in Los Angeles of -- they're called alternative education programs. These are programs designed to get kids back into education. They have certain common features. They're very personalized.They have strong support for the teachers, close links with the community and a broad and diverse curriculum, and often programs which involve students outside school as well as inside school. And they work. What's interesting to me is, these are called "alternative education." You know? And all the evidence from around the world is, if we all did that, there'd be no need for the alternative. So I think we have to embrace a different metaphor. We have to recognize that it's a human system, and there are conditions under which people thrive, and conditions under which they don't. We are after all organic creatures, and the culture of the school is absolutely essential. Culture is an organic term, isn't it? Not far from where I live is a place called Death Valley. Death Valley is the hottest, driest place in America, and nothing grows there. Nothing grows there because it doesn't rain. Hence, Death Valley. In the winter of 2004, it rained in Death Valley. Seven inches of rain fell over a very short period. And in the spring of 2005, there was a phenomenon. The whole floor of Death Valley was carpeted in flowers for a while. What it proved is this: that Death Valley isn't dead. It's dormant. Right beneath the surface are these seeds of possibility waiting for the right conditions to come about, and with organic systems, if the conditions are right, life is inevitable. It happens all the time. You take an area, a school, a district, you change the conditions, give people a different sense of possibility, a different set of expectations, a broader range of opportunities, you cherish and value the relationships between teachers and learners, you offer people the discretion to be creative and to innovate in what they do, and schools that were once bereft spring to life. Great leaders know that. The real role of leadership in education -- and I think it's true at the national level, the state level, at the school level -- is not and should not be command and control. The real role of leadership is climate control, creating a climate of possibility. And if you do that, people will rise to it and achieve things that you completely did not anticipate and couldn't have expected. There's a wonderful quote from Benjamin Franklin. "There are three sorts of people in the world: Those who are immovable, people who don't get it, or don't want to do anything about it; there are people who are movable, people who see the need for change and are prepared to listen to it; and there are people who move, people who make things happen." And if we can encourage more people, that will be a movement.And if the movement is strong enough, that's, in the best sense of the word, a revolution. And that's what we need. Thank you very much. Ken Robinson - Author/educator Creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson challenges the way we’re educating our children. He champions a radical rethink of our school systems, to cultivate creativity and acknowledge multiple types of intelligence. https://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity |
| Celebrities / Re: Dr. Festus Fadeyi: Toke Makinwa's Rumored Sugar Daddy by bukiboy(m): 1:08pm On Nov 28, 2017 |
biacan: I fit introduce you to Dr. Fadeyi's friend. just pm me |
| Religion / Re: Pastor Chris Oyakhilome Gets Jet Plane Gift From Loveworld Music & Arts Group by bukiboy(m): 12:35pm On Nov 28, 2017 |
donnie: I have an interest in knowing the calibre of those people. What is their net worth? How much are they paying in tax? It's only in Nigeria people go to bed without anything and wake up as millionaires |
| Romance / Re: Pastor Ibiyeomie: If You Are Not Married At 35, You Are An Irresponsible Person by bukiboy(m): 1:44am On Aug 27, 2017 |
ikorodureporta: Jesus died at the age of 33 and HE was not married. Apostle Paul was a single guy till his death. what is the mumu talking about? As if marriage is the ticket to heaven 1 Like |
| Business / Re: Who Was The Richest Man In Nigeria Before Dangote? by bukiboy(m): 1:41am On Aug 27, 2017 |
Emmem005: MKO Abiola |
| Religion / Re: Bishop Oyedepo And Wife At The Burj Al Arab Hotel, Dubai. Photos by bukiboy(m): 1:37am On Aug 27, 2017 |
CAPTAIND5235: I will answer you and the answer is very simple. People are lazy and they are looking for miracle forgetting that GOD is not a magician. what we have in Nigeria today is a bunch of lazy people who seek magic from GOD. A miracle is different from magic, which is the reason for pastors to continue to make so much money all in the name of giving to GOD and receiving in return 100 fold. |
| Politics / Re: President Buhari Mocks London Protesters by bukiboy(m): 1:15am On Aug 27, 2017 |
thesicilian: He can continue to mock but they achieve the goal of forcing him back to the country. But he is still very weak which is why they lied about rat taking over his office so he can rest at home. If truly he is fighting corruption, I want him to publish the name of his friends and family paying for his UK medical bills. |
| Phones / Re: My Bitter Experience With Airtel Unlimited 20 Data Plan... How Airtel Blocked Me by bukiboy(m): 1:10am On Aug 27, 2017 |
Nwereonye: Report this issue to CPC North Central Zonal Office 1st Floor Abdullahi Kure House, Muazu Mohammed Road, Minna, Niger State. Mail: northcentral@cpc.gov.ng phone: 08147170734 And change to MTN, Smile or Spectranet |
| Politics / Re: Charles Ogbu To PMB: You Insulted Us By Addressing Us As 'My Dear Citizens' by bukiboy(m): 5:40pm On Aug 22, 2017 |
kunlexco4u2030: Kunlexco4u2030 haba? Hate speech no be free speech ooooo. can you support your statement that all igbo are looters with facts? |
| Religion / Re: Bishop Oyedepo's Private Jet In Benin (Photos) by bukiboy(m): 5:21pm On Aug 22, 2017 |
cristianisraeli: Vikkie14: It's so interesting how we quickly defend the so called men-of-God. I always try to reason it out and the only thing I discovered is the society we live in and how we are raised. It's a taboo for you to talk when an elderly person is talking or when someone in authority is talking. It's a taboo to question the authority even if you totally disagree. Well this custom and tradition come with its pros and cons, but that's not the focus of discussion today. I read an article on brainwashing some years back and how brainwashing is the sole tool for religion. but the trend in Nigeria today is just pure laziness, we are so used to the handout and area of concentration method. That we are so lazy to study hard and understand things more clearly. Pastors or Men-of-God are not special individuals but ordinary men that choose to study the Bible and interpret it to others, we are not supposed to judge but that's not enough reason for us calling a spade, wheelbarrow. And we should also refrain from calling people names, it's totally uncalled for calling a Pastor Big Thief because of the private jet if you don't have the capacity to dream big and achieve those dreams that should not cause you to hate on someone smart enough to figure it out. I'm tired of all this name calling and defending of pastors, we should all be concerned to understand why we are here and where we will be spending eternity. HATE SPEECH IS NOT FREE SPEECH. |
| Celebrities / Re: DJ Cuppy Visits Her Father, Femi Otedola's Office, Check Out His Phones by bukiboy(m): 4:44pm On Aug 22, 2017 |
introvertious: because he's paying people to use those high end gadgets on his behalf |
| Romance / Re: My Wedding Pictures! by bukiboy(m): 4:42pm On Aug 22, 2017 |
afelouz: continue to advertise your wife (dem say if your yam is very white, make you cover to chop am) |
| Politics / Re: Bukola Saraki Reacts To President Buhari's Return by bukiboy(m): 12:23am On Aug 21, 2017 |
Ilekokonit: Yes by pointing out your error in judging others |
| Politics / Re: Bukola Saraki Reacts To President Buhari's Return by bukiboy(m): 11:42pm On Aug 20, 2017 |
Ilekokonit: It's so obvious you don't know what you're talking about. Why not pause and think things through. Popular gist does not equate facts. Always try to get your facts right and know people well before you come in the open to judge them. |
| Politics / Re: Charly Boy's Letter To President Buhari Upon His Return by bukiboy(m): 11:33pm On Aug 20, 2017 |
ItachiUchiha: I like your point, but I totally disagree with your stand on Jungle Justice. Jungle Justice is barbaric and we all should condemn it |
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