Spotlight | Ling Duo

Spotlight

A curated collection of our topics — showing students what we really care about, and what our classrooms are built to explore.

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Pedagogy

What should learners learn and how? We're constantly analyzing how students learn best and what they need to study in the context of the twenty-first century. Our young people now exist in an era of technological advancement, volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity. It is essential that they prepare for the 21st century, not the 20th century.

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Teachers are not there to make you feel comfortable, they are there to make you think. In the past, the role of the teacher was to provide all the answers. Today, between ChatGPT and Deepseek, students can get the answers to most questions by way of an internet connection. So what's the role of the teacher in the twenty-first century? In short, teachers are there to present the questions for which there are no easy answers.

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In the twenty-first century, the role of the teacher is to help students cultivate life-long learning habits. The role of the teacher is to empower students with the opportunity to find the answer to the most deeply personal question of all: why study? The teachers who cannot adapt, who cannot fulfil their designated societal role, will simply not be needed.