Comments for OECD Insights Blog http://oecdinsights.org Wed, 16 May 2012 07:24:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on Debt and inequality conundrums by cees http://oecdinsights.org/2012/05/15/debt-and-inequality-conundrums/#comment-3449 Wed, 16 May 2012 07:24:52 +0000 http://oecdinsights.org/?p=4158#comment-3449 what is the use of old information. where is the info of 2011 and now?
Cees

]]> Comment on Green and smart: ICT jobs for tomorrow by red rabbit skills services http://oecdinsights.org/2012/05/09/green-and-smart-ict-jobs-for-tomorrow/#comment-3406 Wed, 09 May 2012 18:38:40 +0000 http://oecdinsights.org/?p=4133#comment-3406 Reblogged this on red rabbit skills services | skills programme development and related services and commented:
Great article!

]]> Comment on Comparative advantage: Doing what you do best by Getting Globalization Right: The Japanese Exception « OECD Insights Blog http://oecdinsights.org/2011/10/11/comparative-advantage-doing-what-you-do-best/#comment-3357 Wed, 02 May 2012 10:51:29 +0000 http://oecdinsights.org/?p=3610#comment-3357 [...] Comparative advantage: Doing what you do best (from the Insights blog) Share this:TwitterFacebookStumbleUponDiggLinkedInPinterestTumblrRedditEmailPrint from → Insights ← Learn languages and… expand your own being (among a few other things) No comments yet [...]

]]> Comment on Learn languages and… expand your own being (among a few other things) by Kathy Bramley http://oecdinsights.org/2012/04/24/learn-languages-and-expand-your-own-being-among-a-few-other-things/#comment-3330 Thu, 26 Apr 2012 08:11:30 +0000 http://oecdinsights.org/?p=4099#comment-3330 Learning your national sign language or a simplified sign vocabulary or an alternative communication system – or several such as are in use in any good special school – can be beneficial too! Noisy workplaces and the everyday life of the various signing communities – not to mention the pub or coffee house – would be enhanced by signing being commonplace; and the cross-verbal understanding has been beneficial and emotional for lots of people who apparently had no need to learn sign! I wonder if it helps foreign language learning too?

]]> Comment on Development aid drops for the first time in 15 years by Career Flux - The Top 5 Best Charity & Aid Worker Jobs http://oecdinsights.org/2012/04/04/development-aid-drops-for-the-first-time-in-15-years/#comment-3320 Wed, 25 Apr 2012 21:35:55 +0000 http://oecdinsights.org/?p=4036#comment-3320 [...] you  have recently perused the latest OECD aid numbers and you’re in desperate need of something cheering, Stuff Expat Aid Workers Like [...]

]]> Comment on Learn languages and… expand your own being (among a few other things) by Andrew Weiler http://oecdinsights.org/2012/04/24/learn-languages-and-expand-your-own-being-among-a-few-other-things/#comment-3313 Wed, 25 Apr 2012 04:26:57 +0000 http://oecdinsights.org/?p=4099#comment-3313 I agree completely with the sentiments of this article, however the sad case is that despite the fact that nearly all 7 billion learnt our first language to the level of our peers, very few of us learn a second language successfully once we hit our teens. So rather than expand our being, most of us end up believing that we are poor language learners, we have no talent and end up believing the excused to do with genes, age, etc etc. So we end up believing that we are less than whom we really are.

There are of course many reasons why there is such a massive turnaround. Some is to do with developmental factors, some to do with personality factors but a large share of the “blame”, if we want to apportion it, must go to the schooling system that created artificial ways of learning languages that disempower us, rather than empower us.

Give a person a fork to drink soup with and see how successful s/he will be! As long as they believe that is the only tool available, of course s/he will believe that s/he has no talent, etc etc.

We need to pay more attention to our early years when we were all(well nearly successful and to the adults who become amazingly successful in their adult years in diverse areas of endeavour and learn from all that.

]]> Comment on Bad, boring or bonkers? Science and policy making by prestamos personales online http://oecdinsights.org/2012/04/18/bad-boring-or-bonkers-science-and-policy-making/#comment-3305 Mon, 23 Apr 2012 17:34:28 +0000 http://oecdinsights.org/?p=4092#comment-3305 Thanks for the article and thanks for showing me: “gravity model” very useful for me.

]]> Comment on In praise of conflict by Understanding Conflict in a Modern Democracy | Epiphanyblog http://oecdinsights.org/2012/04/09/in-praise-of-conflict/#comment-3304 Mon, 23 Apr 2012 17:33:08 +0000 http://oecdinsights.org/?p=4060#comment-3304 [...] OECD Insights Blog has a very interesting take on the differences between the two viewpoints and why they exist, based on the ever-presence of [...]

]]> Comment on A social media revolution? by Socialnomics – Social Meida Revolution! « We're Not Idiots http://oecdinsights.org/2011/03/28/a-social-media-revolution/#comment-3280 Wed, 18 Apr 2012 13:05:02 +0000 http://oecdinsights.org/?p=2896#comment-3280 [...] writing, posting, viewing, advertising, exploring, buying, and building virtually? What is the Social Media Revolution? Last semester I was assigned to watch this particular YouTube video called “Social Media [...]

]]> Comment on The Internet of things by The Rapid Global Deployment of Increasingly Smarter Machines Overturns Traditional Economic Policy Assumptions About Employment Growth and Income Distribution « U.S. JOBS GOING DOWN http://oecdinsights.org/2012/01/31/the-internet-of-things/#comment-3279 Tue, 17 Apr 2012 16:06:38 +0000 http://oecdinsights.org/?p=3838#comment-3279 [...] Van der Berg, The Internet of things, OECD Insights,  January 31, [...]

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