Jacques du Plessis
Education Strategist in Wyoming, United States
Background: An African in America.
FOCUS
Disruptive Technologies; Genealogy, Peace Building; Education; .
DEVELOPER & RESEARCHER
Co-founder of the Disruptive Technologies Lab at UWM and Advisory Board Member of the Connected Systems Institute.
Founding director of AGES (The Association of Genealogy Educators and Schools)
Online Foreign Language Learning: I have been teaching Afrikaans in the USA since the mid '80s. Served as president of the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages. I developed a Web environment for open language learning www.afrikaans.us.
Map of Macro Objectives of Education: In late 2018 I will launch a post-Bloom macro-model of the Objectives of Education, called the LIFT+ model. This model will help analyze the broader objectives of an institution, a country, and even a home, to consider the fuller coverage of education to produced a polished productive blessing to society.
PROJECT HAITI: On the team to bring electricity and computational instruction to a school in Haiti.