Writing about Life in the digital age

In situations from business negotiations to karaoke, Alison Wood Brooks explores the harmful effects of anxiety on performance—and how to combat them.

Interesting to see the performance difference from a simple reframe. What we say to ourselves before we are about to present, or indeed perform in some other way, has a real impact on our results. Anxiety is normal (http://www.speakingandpresenting.com/public-speaking-anxiety.html) and so is self talk. Make sure you are repeatedly telling yourself how exciting the situation is and how much you are looking forward to it. Lose the typical doomsday inner voice.

Yes, you are absolutely right! Even if you are perfectly healthy and fine, you may fell anxious at some point of time in a day. A little bit of anxiety helps us to face big challenges of our life. When your heart starts racing fast out of anxiety or nervousness, use this condition in a positive manner to energize yourself to perform better. The best way to control such situation is by taking a deep breath. Click the following link to learn some simple steps to cope with anxiety: http://bit.ly/1UIIWc9

This article lays out a comprehensive plan for school who want to implement technology.  Many schools just use the technology without knowing how to make it an effective teaching tool.  This can help put an end to that, and the blogger opens up the forum for anyone else to include their feedback about what works, what doesn't, what he missed, etc.

I chose this resource to use for motivation or general ideas to become a better principal and educational leader.

School culture is an important part of the success for teachers and leaders. 

One thing my principal does well is build relationships. This makes me want to work harder and I have much more respect for her. I want to ensure I embody the same characteristics when I am a leader someday.

The new developments in teaching and the growing use of technology for education is exciting. People are living in a world that is exposed to unlimited amounts of information and making use of this available information is a step in the right direction. I agree that it is possible that the traditional ways of teaching are outdated and might not be the best way to get through to students of today. Chidlren and students of today have grown up in the technological and internet era and most likely enjoy learning through this medium, instead of the traditional ways. Traditional teachers could possibly not agree with these changes. Even though the use of the internet and technology for education is gaining more support and is encouraged, many people tend to think that students making use of books less and less is a bad thing. The internet, media and technology is the future and I believe education has many great things coming its way. 

The following article highlights the belief that teachers are no longer experts in the classroom, but are rather facilitators. Students have access to a wide range of information through the use of the internet and it is increasingly becoming the job of the teacher to filter this information down into relevant information.

The question of safety and reliability is also questioned as it is pointed out that the information avaliable on the internet is only useful if it comes from a viable source. The right people need to be involved in the e-learning so as to refrain from shutting out useful sources of information but also be prevent unneccesary behaivour on such sites. 

Ultimately it is the student decision as to weather they use the internet or the teacher as a education source.