The issue of how we use social media for our own development as teachers and as digitally skilled individuals is of vital importance, not just because it can enable us to keep developing as teachers through the content, ideas, resources and above all people it gives us access to, but also because the way we use digital media for our own development should guide and influence the way we use it with our students and build their digital literacies and communication skills.
Talking about professional development, it is important to look always for ways in order to improve our study and profesional skills as teachers and as digital individuals. With this social media can provides us athentic input and materials such as articles, games, books, etc. For our own development and it is also proved that it can guide and influence students perseptions and interests. The autor divided social media into three different sections: Information in ( the input, links and places where to find information), information processing ( the process of learning and capture more and more information) and finally, information out (when you share what you've learned). In my opinion it is very important to share our results because in this way we are going to realize what we really learn and ow we did it, also to understand how our learning process works and how it does not.
The concept of Augmented Reality (AR) and its place in language education with a specific focus on vocabulary acquisition by Cemil Gökhan Karacan and Elif Mollamehmetoğlu
TextProject is the only website with student texts and teacher guides based on the science of reading—available for free download. Research-based, open-access resources for teachers, teacher educators, parents, tutors, and students.
Ministers are demanding a return to normal, while universities are using an ever-greater range of technologies to support students - but what do those doing the teaching make of it all? David Kernohan has data from a new survey
Nik Peachey: I’ve always disliked telling students what they are going to learn, and have often had to resist quite considerable pressure to do this. My reluctance to tell students what they are going to learn comes from a number things. By telling them what they are going to learn I feel that I: Limit them to my own conception of what the learning goal/focus is ...
"The assessment itself is completely artificial. It’s not ranking teachers in accordance with their ability to help develop children who will reach their potential, explore their creative interests. Those things you’re not testing.. it's a rank that’s mostly meaningless. And the very ranking itself is harmful. It’s turning us into individuals who devote our lives to…
Closed campuses, working remotely, and physical distancing have changed the way we work, teach, learn, shop, attend conferences, and interact with family and friends. But the Covid-19 pandemic has not changed what we know about creating high-end online education. Two decades of research has shown that online education often fails to fulfill its promise, and the emergency shift to remote instruction has, for many, justified their distrust and dislike of online learning. Low interactivity remains a widely recognized short-coming of current online offerings. Low interactivity results, in part, from many faculty not feeling comfortable being themselves online. The long-advocated for era of authentic assessments is needed now more than ever. Finally, greater support is needed for both underrepresented students and for faculty to move beyond basic online instruction to create a strong continuum of care between the teaching and learning environment and the student support infrastructure. For those who have been long-term champions of online education, it has never been more important to confront the three biggest challenges that continue to haunt online education – interactivity, authenticity, and support. Only by confronting these challenges squarely can instructors, educational developers, and their institutions take huge steps towards better online instruction in the midst of a pandemic and make widespread, high-quality online education permanently part of the “new normal.”
In our annual ritual, we pored over hundreds of educational studies and pulled out the most impactful—from a new study on the sneaky power of sketchnotes to research that linked relationships and rigor. ...
Use of phonics can improve learning to read English as a second language, according to a review of 30 years’ research by Dennis Odo, of Pusan National University, South Korea. Odo conducted a comprehensive statistical analysis (a meta-analysis) pooling the overall results of 46 studies from 1990 to 2019 looking at the effect of using phonological awareness and phonics on learners’ reading skills. Phonics, the system of linking spoken sounds to one or more written letters to help learners decode and learn new words, is a common strategy with young learners in the primary English L1 classroom, but less commonly used with L2 learners. ...
Saying the word ‘like’ has long been seen as a sign of laziness and stupidity. But its use is actually richly nuanced, goes back to Shakespearean times, and is an indicator of, like, intelligence
Student choice and voice in learning are essential. It is important that we provide a variety of opportunities for our students to develop skills in ways that meet their specific interests and needs. We need activities and tools that will help students to develop content-area knowledge and skills, while also developing essential social-emotional learning (SEL) skills to best prepare them for their future.
An end-to-end tutorial of Reading Progress in Microsoft Teams. This is a Microsoft Teams new feature for education that improves student reading fluency, saves time and tracks insights and progress. Reading Progress is one of the new features in Microsoft Teams for Education. Teams Reading Progress is a FREE tool that supports students in building reading fluency through independent reading practice, educator review, and educator insights. Reading Progress allows educators to assign reading fluency passages that students can independently record themselves reading out loud. Educators can review the audio and video, and gather insights automatically on student progress.
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Currently stil in private beta, but announced to go to general availability in August 2021
Free activities and icebreakers for online teaching as a freelance online trainer or teacher. Virtual classroom lessons and workshop fun team-building games.
These 21 ice breakers can be used with any grade level. Whenever you need to get students engaged again with the lesson, whether before your lesson starts, a break during your lesson, or a fun way to wrap up your class, these ice breakers help to bring in participation and help students and teachers get to know each other better.
Online classes and virtual reality in general have been the staple of 2020. One day in March, everything shut down and we all had to learn how to work, teach, study, do therapy, and take classes remotely without much preparation. So, it's been a roller-coaster experience, and definitely not what we expected. ...
While the possibilities for flexible, innovative learning models are myriad, stories from across the country make it clear that as a nation, we are largely missing this opportunity. The vast majority of emergent virtual and hybrid learning models appear to be “stuck at substitution”—that is, they seek to recreate or translate the brick-and-mortar school experience into the cloud without stopping to ask which aspects of those models may not truly serve students in the time of COVID-19 or beyond.
English Language Webinars - Teaching Online: Trinity organises events and various webinar series throughout the year. Most Trinity-organised events are free, but may require advance registration.
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