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February 28, 2011
Brainpop and Language learning
Brainpop has been around for quite a while, yet I still find it amazing to bump into teachers that have not used it in their language classrooms. If you have not seen this product before please check it out at www.BRAINPOP.com, They have even come out with a new ESL specialized branch.
In an IB school the reasons for using it are clear. It provides interdisciplinary content in both English and Spanish. Even if your school or district cannot afford to get a subscription, there are more and more FREE examples of Brainpop available each day.
Essay Tip #4: Independent thinking vs. prepared responses
As the northern hemisphere begins to think about preparing for examinations, and the southern hemisphere gears up for a new year, it seems like the right time to refresh our thinking about essay writing skills for exams.
Moronic acid
If you have just been on your half term holiday – welcome back!
I have decided to dedicate the next few blog posting to molecules with unusual names.
“It’s nyepi – but can it still count for CAS?”
Imagine that you’re working in a school on the island paradise of Bali. Your students do many and most of their CAS activities on their weekends.
As you start to plan their activities with them this week you are trying to decide with them what to schedule on this Saturday, March 5.
The emerging future
This post seeks to summarise The Horizon Report, a longitudinal research study first established in 2002, which identifies and describes emerging technologies likely to have a large impact on education over the coming five years.
The 2011 Report examines emerging technologies for their potential impact on and use in teaching, learning, and creative inquiry. Each edition of the Horizon Report introduces six emerging technologies or practices that are likely to enter mainstream use within three adoption horizons over the next five years.
Technology empowering girls
A good article on the Gender balance and how ICT is empowering girls……….
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February 27, 2011
“war”: words in politics and the media
Public space can sound so violent and threatening in the language of some politics and some media! It’s possible to declare war on anything you want to contest — and to declare that others are making war on you if they are arguing a position that restricts you in any way. In a course where we hope to encourage an openness to alternative views – and an inclination to use calm, analytical dialogue rather than bullets — we might well want to defuse the verbal bombs. A quick, light touch in class, with laughter rather than indignation, could serve to give students some distance from the impact of persuasive language.
Today Canadian environmentalist David Suzuki provides a short, easily accessible article on the way that opinions and arguments have been recast, verbally, in violent terms. It is appropriately entitled “If there is a war on cars, which side is winning?” and treats the way in which peaceful environmental arguments for shifting from private cars to public transit have been recast by opponents in terms of war. It also links to an article by George Monbiot entitled “The Imaginary War”, in which he asks, “Where is this famous war on the motorist? Can anyone point me to the battlefields, the graves of the war dead, the statues commemorating the unknown driver? Who has been waging it and when was it fought?”
The learner Profile and visual arts
“The learner profile provides a long-term vision of education. It is a set of ideals that can inspire, motivate and focus the work of schools and teachers, uniting them in a common purpose”.
