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It’s how your students cheat in front of your eyes

It was not what I expected to hear at all. I sat there, all surprised, while my brain raced in many directions. There were so many implications to what I just heard. However, one thought shined in my mind like a neon light – Wow, my son is so clever. But let’s go back to […]

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🌀 Grandomastery: The Ever-Changing Language Landscape 🌀

As language learners, we're always searching for new ways to expand our skills and explore the vast world of words. Enter Grandomastery - a platform where the cycle of language learning is ever-evolving! With each new task, we're transported to a fresh corner of the linguistic universe, diving into the unknown and emerging stronger than before. Join the journey, and let's ride this ever-changing wave of language growth together! 🌊✨💫

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🎭 Dive into Grandomastery's charm, where language tasks spin and swarm, a cryptic mystery to disarm! 😉✨ Unlock the riddles, fluent we'll be, in this ironic twist of esprit!

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Assembling a fashionable and daring outfit that makes a lasting impression and demonstrates impeccable avant-garde taste can be considered an art form in itself. Sometimes, the most unexpected combinations can lead to revolutionary fashion statements. Grandomastery Random Look Activity invites you to create a stylish and fashionable look by selecting and combining randomly chosen items, including a top, bottom, footwear, and accessories. Minor adjustments are allowed. Are you curious to see what your new look will be? Give Grandomastery Random Look Activity a try! #grandomastery #fashiongame #randomlook #randomclothes #randomESL #eslgames #ESLactivities #TEFL #TESOL #ESOL #ESL https://www.instagram.com/p/Cm1LfYJu0rq/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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When describing its underlying principles, Grandomastery often refers to Arthur Koestler's concept of bisociation - creative problem solving on several planes, merging art, science and humour. However, we should not underestimate other ingenious creators, and, per se, grandomasters, such as Herman Hesse with his Glasperlenspiel. The Glass Bead Game is a synthesis of philosophical thoughts. As the game progresses, associations between the themes become deeper and more varied, like in Grandomastery's Random Abstractions. In a similar, but considerably more demiurgical way, Xul Solar, a phenomenal painter, linguist and inventor introduced an even more elaborate bisociative principle in his Pangame. Each play of the "Pangame" is a poem, a painting, a piece of music, and an arcane rite at the same time. It is possible to create different compositions as the game progresses by combining boxes, syllables, and numbers. These compositions are correspondingly read in 'panlengua', one of the langues that Xul Solar invented. In Pangame, the pieces are also planets that navigate through constellations, but they are also consonants which, paired with the syllabic combinations of the squares, can form invented words; the possibilities are infinite. #xulsolar #borges #grandomastery #glasperlenspiel #pangame #panchess #grandom #grandomasters #creativity #koestler #bisociation #buenosaires #argentina #art #panlanguage (at Museo Xul Solar) https://www.instagram.com/p/CioUIvttubp/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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When describing its underlying principles, Grandomastery often refers to Arthur Koestler's concept of bisociation - creative problem solving on several planes, merging art, science and humour. However, we should not underestimate other ingenious creators, and, per se, grandomasters, such as Herman Hesse with his Glasperlenspiel. The Glass Bead Game is a synthesis of philosophical thoughts. As the game progresses, associations between the themes become deeper and more varied, like in Grandomastery's Random Abstractions. In a similar, but considerably more demiurgical way, Xul Solar, a phenomenal painter, linguist and inventor introduced an even more elaborate bisociative principle in his Pangame. Each play of the "Pangame" is a poem, a painting, a piece of music, and an arcane rite at the same time. It is possible to create different compositions as the game progresses by combining boxes, syllables, and numbers. These compositions are correspondingly read in 'panlengua', one of the langues that Xul Solar invented. In Pangame, the pieces are also planets that navigate through constellations, but they are also consonants which, paired with the syllabic combinations of the squares, can form invented words; the possibilities are infinite. #xulsolar #borges #grandomastery #glasperlenspiel #pangame #panchess #grandom #grandomasters #creativity #koestler #bisociation #buenosaires #argentina #art #panlanguage (at Museo Xul Solar) https://www.instagram.com/p/CioNL-pLPo6/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Grandomastery Integrative Thinking Platform Designation and Application

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Random Issue activity https://www.grandomastery.com/issue for ESOL and EFL Advanced and Proficiency students from Grandomastery, Integrative Thinking Platform

Scientists believe that subconsciously, our minds prefer to focus on the good side of things over the bad side. In the "Glad Game" participants are asked to find something to be happy about even in the most difficult circumstances. We've compiled a formidable list of seemingly insurmountable problems as well as some of those pesky First World problems as part of this assignment.

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Random Job Interview activity https://www.grandomastery.com/interview for ESOL and EFL Advanced and Proficiency students from Grandomastery, Integrative Thinking Platform

Having no one know about my area of expertise would be exciting. Think about working for a leading magazine and being asked to do an interview about your job, allowing you to see things from another perspective. Do you know how you would approach the interview?

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Random Magnets activity https://www.grandomastery.com/magnets for ESOL and EFL Advanced and Proficiency students from Grandomastery, Integrative Thinking Platform

In the past, students used to make magnets for their teachers. They were a bit tedious and time-consuming to create, but the process was fun nonetheless. Throughout the assignment, students are required to recompose four proverbs that might be unfamiliar to them, while producing new ones that are both grammatically correct and entertaining at the same time. As a result of being able to demonstrate their proficiency in language and vocabulary structures, they will be able to utilize their grammar and linguistic flexibility in a variety of writing styles.

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Random Object https://www.grandomastery.com/object for ESOL and EFL Advanced and Proficiency students from Grandomastery, Integrative Thinking Platform

In the years since the pandemic started, people have used random Google Street View more often, as the desire to wander and explore -- essential activities for cognitive flexibility and integrative thinking -- has declined. In addition to using Random Street View, the activity makes use of Random Street View, an online tool that randomly generates Street View from Google. To the conventional question of whether you'd choose to live in a particular area for 10 years if you were given $5 million, we present a more inventive answer. Could you suggest changes to the given area if you were a real estate developer? Is there a chance that natural spots with pristine wilderness would be harmed by any level of development? On the other hand, could any environmental benefits felt by locals or visitors lead to greater protection of the natural environment, for example by promoting eco-friendly tourism?

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Random Phobia activity https://www.grandomastery.com/phobia for ESOL and EFL Advanced and Proficiency students from Grandomastery, Integrative Thinking Platform

No matter how rare or unlikely a phobia may be, it is unlikely we are immune to it. Using this activity, our grandomasters explain how one mishap can simultaneously generate two fears. Moreover, it has been suggested that the two phobias are psychologically linked.

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Random Place activity https://www.grandomastery.com/place for ESOL and EFL Advanced and Proficiency students from Grandomastery, Integrative Thinking Platform

In the years since the pandemic started, people have used random Google Street View more often, as the desire to wander and explore -- essential activities for cognitive flexibility and integrative thinking -- has declined. In addition to using Random Street View, the activity makes use of Random Street View, an online tool that randomly generates Street View from Google. To the conventional question of whether you'd choose to live in a particular area for 10 years if you were given $5 million, we present a more inventive answer. Could you suggest changes to the given area if you were a real estate developer? Is there a chance that natural spots with pristine wilderness would be harmed by any level of development? On the other hand, could any environmental benefits felt by locals or visitors lead to greater protection of the natural environment, for example by promoting eco-friendly tourism?

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Random Poem activity https://www.grandomastery.com/poem for ESOL and EFL Advanced and Proficiency students from Grandomastery, Integrative Thinking Platform

This task contains many unique pieces of poetry: the poems are short and sweet, the pages are yellowish, and the fonts are old-fashioned, so they keep the authenticity of being printed in old-fashioned books decades ago. You should narrate these poems in the manner dictated by the task - to use an accent or to imagine yourself in a situation that would cause your voice or style to change.

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Random Predicament activity https://www.grandomastery.com/predicament for ESOL and EFL Advanced and Proficiency students from Grandomastery, Integrative Thinking Platform

Our psychology allows us to repress embarrassing memories, so even a prudent and sensible person can encounter embarrassing situations. This task requires you to explain why you did what you did, as well as your motivations and actions. Scripting a game like this is fun, since you can never predict what will happen next.

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Random Article activity https://www.grandomastery.com/article for ESOL and EFL Advanced and Proficiency students from Grandomastery, Integrative Thinking Platform

It is a wide and diverse collection of articles, mostly originating from Wikipedia, and covering a wide range of topics. Considering the points made in the article is necessary to answer the questions about its content. The purpose of the activity, just as with the abstraction task, is to teach participants how to understand non-standard ideas and how to relate them to their own personal experiences

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Random Profession https://www.grandomastery.com/profession activity for ESOL and EFL Advanced and Proficiency students from Grandomastery, Integrative Thinking Platform

When you have never worked in a different field and are faced with a job interview explaining why you want to change careers, how would you explain your decision? What is so different about it?