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24.01.2022 The long term aims of Knect Learn, and its sister company Knect Earn, are to help you find your passion, the thing that makes you tick, and help you use it to earn money. What would the world be like if everyone worked in roles that filled them with energy? What would it be like to receive goods or services from someone who truly loved what they were doing? Sounds great doesn’t it? So how do we get from Maths and Music tutoring to global utopia? We’re building the solution i...n stages: - Stage one involves the building of a marketplace for live video tutoring. Subjects and topics grow organically. During stage two the feedback from each tutoring session is analysed, picking out the key words, and passion points from each session using state of the art technologies. Stage three sees the launch of tools to guide you on your journey to discover yourself and your talents. Knect Earn launches in the final phase. Knect Earn uses the same techniques to connect employers, who have specific needs, to the best people to fulfill those roles. We believe that everyone is good at something and that everyone has a role to play. Connect with your talents and find your tribe through Knect Learn / Knect Earn.

20.01.2022 Is it best to learn from a professor, someone who’s just passed the exam you are about to do, or from someone who practises the theories every day in their work? The answer is: yes! Yes it’s good to learn from all of them. Which one you should choose depends on why you want to learn and how you like to learn. ... If you need to get the high ATAR to get into the course of your choice, then maybe you could learn a thing or two from the 99.95 ATAR undergraduate who has just started at uni. If you are struggling with a concept and just can’t grasp it then maybe a fully trained and experienced teacher will be able to clear the fog for you. If you can’t see the point of a subject, or conversely know that this subject is your reason for being, then learning from someone who puts it into practise daily may inspire and motivate you to go further. See more

16.01.2022 Does the ATAR help or hinder? The aims of the ATAR are laudable it supposed to be the great leveler. How otherwise does an employee or university chose between candidates, do they know if a Band 6 General Maths or a Band 4 Advanced Maths student is brighter? Likewise does a Band 6 Design and Technology student get preference over a Band 4 Physics student in an architecture or construction course? The main draw back however is that all students are ranked in order of ‘cleve...rness’ from zero to 99.95, i.e. an ATAR of 80 means that a student is in the top 20% of their year group. Given that no-one wants to feel average (even though, by definition, average is the norm) and that the educational definition of success is to go onto university, only students who achieve an ATAR of 70 or above feel as though they have succeeded. Some of the 70 plus ATAR students still feel as though they have missed the mark, if they don’t get into the course they wanted. This means that after 12 or 13 years of education at least 75% of our children, each year, graduate feeling like failures. Does this set our children up for success in the rest of their lives? Do they feel equipped to deal with the world and confident that they will succeed in life after all that education? Does it really come down to one mark? There must be a better way. We at K-nect Learn think that there is a better way ask us about it.

14.01.2022 The smiles say it all. Today we reviewed a tutoring session video recording for training. One of our useful training techniques is to turn the sound off and to look at the body language of the student and the tutor. In this introductory session, not only did the student and tutor start to mirror each other but the girls smile just got bigger and bigger and bigger. Her eyes widened as she realized that she really could connect with her new tutor and her relief was palpable. ... Her smile was infectious. We're still smiling now as we write this post! See more

13.01.2022 Does everyone need to be good at everything? In the industrial age we needed large numbers of people to be churned out of an educational production line who could all do the same thing: read and write instructions, count widgets and profitability, repair, build and make machinery, remember and repeat actions continually without having to stop to look things up in textbooks. Reading, writing, maths and science were essential. Memory recall was revered, and repetition was the n...orm. In the digital age, however, excel does complicated addition for us, spelling and grammar checkers correct our mistakes before we’ve finished the sentence. Instead of searching our memory banks we often ask Siri or Google. AI and robotics perform repetitive tasks far quicker than we can. Today’s workforce has difference requirements: people skills are sought after, job adverts ask for an ability to link disparate ideas or build on existing concepts, technologies change so rapidly that a creative, constantly enquiring approach is required. Perhaps then, it is OK for a student to be average in one area, to allow technology to support that area, and then to focus fully on expanding, growing and whole heartedly developing talents in areas that the student excels in? Maybe drilling a poor speller for spend hours only serves to diminish their confidence and does nothing to foster their natural numerical talents? Likewise, how tragic would it be if the next 21st century version of Shakespeare was held back from developing literary brilliance because she focused on years of maths remediation instead of perusing her passion? Perhaps the students of today, who are tomorrow’s workforce, need to reach a reasonable general standard and then exponentially grow and develop their individual talents? Perhaps the digital age requires an education system which produces a never-ending array of different talents and skills instead of a production line of uniformity?