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5 bons livros disponíveis gratuitamente para você se desenvolver durante o recesso

22 de dezembro de 2015

Então, mais um ano se passou. Se você for como eu, vai olhar para as resoluções do ano anterior (aquelas que você escreveu ainda em 2014) e ver que não conseguiu cumprir boa parte delas. A tão sonhada forma física, o curso de desenho artístico e a viagem à Fernando de Noronha em 2015, por...Read More

Teacher Development

career, classroom activity, Classroom experiences, communication, creativity, digital media, educational technology, EFL, elt, inglês, language, language development for teachers, motivation, professional development, storytelling, teacher development, teacher training, technology, Young learners

Teachers Finding Self-Confidence for Becoming Digital Creators

28 de junho de 2015

by Carla Arena

In my daily job in education, I find the most talented and vibrant community of educators. Their very specific skills range from making, sometimes with hardcore engineering skills, to arts, with those amazing strokes of light and hope. Many, though, lack self-confidence. They perceive themselves as just one more in the crowd. Their talent is...Read More

Career, Educational Technology, Teacher Development, Technology

Blog, classroom activity, digital media, eltresource, PD, teacher development, Teachers’ Experiences, teachersdigital resources

Sharing Six Teaching Techniques – the last three

27 de junho de 2015

by Laura Miccoli

Hi! This month I want to finish sharing with you the remaining three teaching techniques I recently got to know as I searched the Internet for innovation. The idea is to create affordances in class so that students feel compelled to learn. Below I briefly refer to remaining three teaching techniques. The previous three were...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Educational Technology

Classroom experiences, creativity, design thinking, digital media, educational technology, flipped classroom, language development for teachers, self-learning, teaching techniques

Video genres for the language classroom

9 de novembro de 2014

by Rubens Heredia

Being a bit of a YouTube buff, myself, I’ve always been really keen on using videos with my students. So much interaction and such great ideas can come from just a couple of minutes (or even seconds) of audio-visual input! We often use movie snippets or interviews in order to bring the outside world into...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Lesson Ideas, Resources, Technology

classroom activity, Classroom experiences, digital media, EFL, social media, technology

To post or not to post?

1 de setembro de 2014

by Michele Schwertner

I’ve decided to address a very controversial issue in my blog post. Well, it seems it is not controversial at all for most of the people, but it is something that has puzzled me for a while. This is not going to be a very long post as I do not have any answers to...Read More

Reflections about Education, Technology

Blog, controversy, digital media, Facebook, Instagram, online privacy, Parents, Pinterest, Posts, privacy, social media, technology, Twitter, Young learners

The redefinition of list-making: what does it mean to teachers?

22 de junho de 2014

by Ana Maria Menezes

Why do we make lists? Jillian Steinhauer in a 2012 blog post says “We are a society of listers.” In other words, we could all be called “glazomaniacs” according to Dictionary.com which defines “glazomania” as a passion for list-making. We seem to enjoy lists: to-do lists, grocery lists, best-sellers lists, new year resolution lists and...Read More

Educational Technology, Reflections about Education, Resources, Technology

digital media, educational technology, technology

Making writing relevant: Audience, purpose and interactivity

2 de maio de 2014

by Carol Lethaby

Hello again! In the past few months I’ve talked about ways to make what we do in the classroom more relevant to our learners’ lives, particularly with regard to the inclusion of digital media. This month I’d like to give an idea for how to change a typical English language writing task into a task...Read More

Lesson Ideas, Technology

digital media, materials, teaching writing

Is technology or teaching the problem?

31 de março de 2014

by Carol Lethaby

This month I’ll be continuing the theme of technology in education and thinking about the impact of technology on young people – our learners and future learners! In 2010 there was an article in the New York Times Magazine called Growing up Digital, Wired for Distraction. The title of the article gives you a clue...Read More

Educational Technology

digital media, professional development, technology

Is this a “literacy revolution”?

1 de março de 2014

by Carol Lethaby

Hello and welcome to March! In 2009 I read an article in Wired magazine that reported on the Stanford Study of Writing and I was very struck by this quote from the leader of the study, Dr Andrea Lunsford, who said, “I think we’re in the midst of a literacy revolution the likes of which...Read More

Teacher Development, Technology

digital media, teaching writing

Is what we do relevant to our students’ lives?

30 de janeiro de 2014

by Carol Lethaby

It’s great to be blogging here – hello! What I’m going to talk about each month are some of the questions that interest me and that I’m reading and talking about with my fellow teachers and teacher trainees. This month I want to consider what we do in the classroom and its connection and relevance...Read More

Teacher Development, Technology

digital media, reading and writing, real life, relevant teaching