Every little helps
In todays’s information-packed world we often don’t know when we really learn and we can hardly predict which present lesson will turn out to be important later in life and what we will end up remembering from our schools, courses, trips, readings etc. To large extent it’s all about the moments that get our attention and then make our memory store the surrounding world in this massive library called knowledge. Learning and teaching is nothing more than directing and focusing attention (and then memory) on essential content with the use of good resources and clever tools. Traditional classes and books still carry these processes relatively well, but with the Internet fast becoming a major repository of knowledge, new ways of learning and teaching open up and we can no longer ignore them.
From the humble Global Village website you can now instantly enter into diverse teritories of knowledge without even having to decide where to go. Look to the links on right side of the page: ‘Word of the Day’, ‘Article of the Day’ and ‘This Day in History’ randomly select from the web’s Free Dictionary and the content is replaced daily, giving us always something new to look at – whether we’re interested in history, general knowledge or just the language itself. It’s all genuinly interesting, even exciting, varied, and most of all – unpredictable. So go ahead, give it a try, stimulate your mind.
