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Hi Carrie thank you for sharing the blog from Hamish. It truly gives an insight into the development of ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Learning English program and also reminds us how it was before the technology revolution. Hamish is spot on when he said "You don't need technology to teach. But students need to enjoy learning."

Hi Carrie, thank you for this interesting topic.
I’m not young and I can remember my excitement, when I began using internet.
It was so wonderful contacting people all over the world, finding a lot of information, sending messages and receiving answer staying at home and all over the day ! I began using internet when my teacher went to London: I have lived in Milano and I had to prepare my thesis. So, he proposed to me to use e-mailing and I discovered a very useful instrument. I was a young mother, a worker and a student and internet was so useful, because I could look for information and write e-mails during the night or on Sundays. And now I’m using Internet to learn English in very comfortable and cheap way !!
Internet changed our lives and our way of learning too.
But Hamish asks an important and intriguing questions about the future: what sort of innovation is going to grow in importance ? I think that this is a difficult question to answer and I have no ideas at all !!
Best wishes by Maria Teresa

Hi Carrie,
Thank you for sharing the informative blog of Hamish. It seems he had an accomplished career in ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Learning English, and took part in many of the pioneering projects.
It's so difficult to predict the world in 2050. Despite of all the growing factor of regionalism, I believe, English language would maintain its global appeal as a prime language for commerce and science. However, it'll depend mostly on how the English speaking countries like US & UK fare in the future.
Science is developing so fast and technology has become so affordable that it's difficult even to predict where technology may take us in even in next 5 years. However, I can see that a day is not so far away where there'll be virtual class room, where the teacher would be able to interact with students of different remote areas in a single class room, where everyone would be able to see each other, interact with each other at the same time as if they are sitting in the same class room. It'll revolutionize the education system of the world, sitting at a remote place in Africa or India, a competent student would able to study and earn a prestigious degree may be from Oxford or Stanford, at a much lesser cost (no visa, no staying abroad with same teachers and co-students with the same interaction and experience). Won't it be great?
To predict the technology of the future, I prefer to watch the sci-fi Hollywood movies, they are in fact, much ahead of time. I would love to know what others predict about the future technologies.

Regards,
Rajeeb

The ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ had playing abig roll in a history genarally I gree with the colleagues bbc it real revolution in an education and news embody the democrace because it's depend a values such as a conversation , I mean not to sent massege just but it's listening to people and what are they needed , as well as it's made thier voices listenlly , it's the first radio at me and all a friends I know becaus we found their self here in an oldest a life school .

Hello Carrie,

Mr.Hamish did very stunning thing with creating such a wonderful source for learning English. I regret that I joined ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Learning English late, my English could be more sophisticated now.

Hello Carrie and thanks to Hashim for his interesting explanation about teaching resources.
I was born three months before he started to teach English in Burundi. And when I went to school I have some more tools to learn than he had to teach, but they are so rudimentary. I had English class at nine for first time and I studied English until I finished Secodanry School, but it was, most of all, written English. Sometimes, we students listended a speech from a low quality cassette, which we hardly heard an of course didn't understead it at all. The most people took rather poor notes, but those who attend at private classes.
I studied Hispanic Philology at the University and I choose French and Italian as foreign languages and avoided English because it frightened me.
I finished my studies and I started to work as Spanish as foreing language teacher at the Salamanca University and in languages schools. My tools to teach weren't already very advanced. Of course, I can photocopy, I had a cassettes and a video, and I used a computer, but only the word processor. However I noticed something had changed: my teachers had treaned me to teach in a very different way I have learned even French an Italian at the University. It was the communicative approach Hamish quotes. Indeed we searched for amusing materials and whenever it was possible from real-life situations close to our students.
In the course of the time, I obteined a secure employment as a State Secundary School teacher by passing competitive exams. I come up with some bunchs of teenagers without any interest in Spanish language o Litterature. Indeed it was difficult to compete against subjects as Tecnology or Physical Educatior and agaisnt the prestigious and useful sciencies. Not to mention their hormonal development than kept them absolutely busy, so there was no room for nothing else in their head.
I couldn't more agree with Hamish than students need enjoing to learn, so I passed years making notes and exercices different from the texbook to avoid the boredom, and looking for examples through adds, comics, songs and teenagers magazines. I thint my achievement wasn´t a great deal.
Certainly, I got tired of teaching the same subject (I wanted to be Maths teacher), of repeating the same things and of quarreling with bad-tempered teenagers. And if a teacher wants their students to enjoy and learn, the teacher ought to enjoy the lessons too. If the teacher gets bored the students do too.
Then the Interctive Whiteboard or Digital Blackboard entered my Secondary School. Its use was a challenge for a lot of teachers no expert

Hi Carrie,


First and foremost I would like to congratulate all of the founders and colleagues on their great job. I am very grateful for your work you have done for nearly seven decades.

The ways of communication have progressed in leaps and bounds for many years creating fast and widely used and easily accessible ways of human connection.

As History has shown, the conventional techniques of communication firstly seemed to be endangered by the new technical inventions but later the new ones found their proper places in the daily routine. For example lots of people buy expensive tickets and go to the theater to enjoy a special artistic atmosphere of a beautiful performance even though this kind of programmes can be found on TV.

Back to my profession. Being as a family practitioner doctor, in my view is that nothing can replaces a personal meeting. Something special is being existed while I am paying attention to my patient whose words express only a little part of his/her problem. I am afraid this kind of relation will be difficult to be remodeled in the cyber-world.

Internet and other electronical possibilities much more can be used in the field of teaching-learning especially at the advanced level.

I am looking forward to trying and experiencing new ways of learning which can help me to improve my English.


Best regards,

Krisztina from Hungary

I don´t know what is happened to the comment I posted the day before yesterday, but It was published incomplete, so the most important part is missing. I understeand this because my comment was really long. I prefer you delete it completely, though it took me a lot of effort, because like that it hasn't any sense. Thank you very much.