What is the difference between Teaching and Learning?

Drama and comedy in the classroom encourage children to listen and participate : Teachers are constantly thinking about new and innovative ways to encourage active participation with their students. An engaged child is one who is more likely to absorb information, retain it, and make real-life associations with the knowledge. In order to engage students, several activities or processes need to be present. In Beyond the Journal, authors and educators Judy R. Jablon and Michael Wilkinson outline the following: Some prior understanding or knowledge of the material An environment that fosters questions and investigation The ability to work in a group or collaborative setting Offering multiple choices so students can be self-directed Independent thinking Games, drama, and humor It might not come as a surprise, but laughter is a great indicator of engagement. Just like tears or anger, it is a vibrancy of emotion that shows a student’s entire mind and feelings are engaged in the activity.

International Tea Day is observed annually on December 15. It has been celebrated since 2005 in tea producing countries. On this day trade unions, workers organizations and other civil society organisations have been coming together and organising seminars, dialogues and public events.

The planet Neptune was mathematically predicted before it was directly observed. With a prediction by Urbain Le Verrier, telescopic observations confirming the existence of a major planet were made on the night of September 23–24, 1846, at the Berlin Observatory, by astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle (assisted by Heinrich Louis d'Arrest), working from Le Verrier's calculations. It was a sensational moment of 19th-century science, and dramatic confirmation of Newtonian gravitational theory. In François Arago's apt phrase, Le Verrier had discovered a planet "with the point of his pen".

In the history of speech recognition software technology, this was the era of 'baby talk'; only numbers and digits could be comprehended. In 1952, 'Audrey' was invented by Bell Laboratories which could only understand numbers. ... Later, voice recognition was enhanced to comprehend 9 consonants and 4 vowels.

The mouse was invented by Douglas Engelbart in 1964 and consisted of a wooden shell, circuit board and two metal wheels that came into contact with the surface it was being used on. ... It would be another 8 years before the mouse would be developed any further.