21st Century Classroom

21st century classroom!What is the 21st century classroom?
i think we should redefine the classroom of the 21st century.The world all around us is changing so rapidly...What with all the ssocial networking,all the information,all the pressure to succeed....

Yet one thing remains constant.The classrooms.We still follow a colonial /soviet style academic regimentation.Rules ,fixed timetables ,same fixed lectures.I think the academic culture in most African universities has not changed much.

In other words we are studying in the same academic framework that our parents went through.But i always think that to much regimentation kills creativity and the beauty of life.Remember Athens and Sparta .Regimentation leaves no room for creativity.Just procedures and rules and boredom.Yet life must be made exciting.Even academic life.
Man is born free.And should learn freely.

What is the best way??
Maybe if only students were given room.Less lectures and more of field work and personal studies it would ease up life a bit .And perhaps unleash the forces of creativity.

Imagination thrives in an atmosphere of freedom.Academic excellence is beautiful and i love it when i excel with flying colors.My bone of contention is the system that we use to arrive at excellence.It should allow room for a little bit of imagination.

I think the 21st century lecturer can interact with their students easily via Facebook ,Blog Catalog and other social networking sites,should give students more time to be with themselves in order to discover their talents,strengths and weaknesses.

In such an atmosphere of academic freedom ,universities will be beautiful and illustrious and i would not wish to get as quickly as i am wishing now!!!#!!!1

Social Business

What is Social business.Is it the future of the 21st Century?According to Muhammad Yusuf,social business is not charity.Simply business with society in mind.

Its profitable but also involves lots of social responsibility.The business is for the benefit of the society.

If something is inevitable,embrace it!

If something is inevitable,embrace it

If you know something is inevitable ,embrace it.Especially for business leaders.we live in a fast changing world.
In the 80s ,managers in Africa could sit pretty and watch changes pass by ,ignoring them,foolishly believing that governments would protect them from fierce competition and cushion them against losses.Businesses in Africa in the 80s were run like parishes ,with the manager the High Priest who resisted all change and innovation , excommunicated change agents, ignored trends and instead clung to a "sit ,wait and see" Business management model.

For two decades we watched the world fly as we crawled.First came the push for flatter management that we conveniently ignored,then the opportunities of globalization and then the need to embrace high technology ,research and development.

Unmoved by the global changes in business management of the late 80s precipitated by the success of Japanese style management ,they dragged entire state corporations down and happily contributed to the slow demise of our economic potential.

What we must do in the 21st century is have open minds.Openness and flexibility.Ability to adopt global trends and practices .

African firms should be the first to go Green since we suffer the most from global warming.African firms should invest more money in research and technology since ,at this time ,we are the least innovative .African shareholders should learn to sacrifice company dividends for the sake of reinvestment.

African firms

should invest more in alternative energy since we have the most unreliable energy sources.
Whatever the world does,We must do it two times better!

This could make our businesses sustainable,at least in the near future!!!

Futuristic photos for our Futuristic Blog
Visitors have complained to me about the blandness of my Blog......it is just all articles and no photos.Pictures are worth a thousand words!!

Since my DigiCam is now ready for use ,am gonna snap some really Romantic photos and share with you all...
They depict the lives of noble ordinary people ,including ME,who like everyone else
work for a beautiful life and beautiful world.Hope you will love them!!!

While Africa Sleeps
They say China slept for 500 years.How long has Africa slept.I think we have slept for too long.Maybe you could say the odds were so much against us...somewhat insurmountable.

The 1960s offered us a great chance to put things right.Instead we blew things away.No revolutions.No movements.No intellectual ferment.just stagnation.Plain stagnation.and what does stagnation do? It kills the spirit of initiative in all of us!!

And what do you do for the future when the past has bequeathed you nothing? Can we build a unique generation that is devoid of the failures and the burdens of the past?Can we move forward and forget the past?

Can the present generation of Africans recreate a new future despite the corruption and shortsightedness of their leaders??

I think we can.genius defies conventions!!! We can build a unique genius by tapping into ourselves and recognizing that we have failed and the failure is due to us.people improve by admitting mistakes.
Who would have thought that 19th century Russia,the rotten structure ,would rise into a world power?Who would have thought that an obscure South East Asian Nation would rise from the darkness of the past and build one of the most powerful military and industrial machines not only in Asia but in the whole modern world!

The task of redefining a people requires a collective genius and cultural regeneration.only a supreme act of will can save a beautiful and enchanted continent from sinking.

Join me next time and let us define Collective genius and cultural regeneration.GOOD NIGHT TO EVERYONE.LUV YOU ALL

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