01 fev 2014

by | in Educational Technology, Games, Technology

It all starts when you are organizing the room where you teach. And there are many questions we should ask ourselves when doing that… Am I going to have a big table or many small tables? A board? Chairs? Desks? Posters? Pictures? Books? Games? A stereo? A projector? A computer? A cell phone? What about seating arrangements? Students have to feel their room is a unique place which will also help them in their learning process and will nurture their creativity. Creativity strikes again when you are planning your...

30 jan 2014

by | in Teacher Development, Technology

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 to learners and their ‘real lives’. In 2007 (which is about a million years ago in Internet years!), Dr Mike Wesch and his students at Kansas State University conducted a piece of research entitled ‘What’s...

28 jan 2014

by | in Educational Technology, Technology

  Recently I watched an inspiring interview with  entrepreneur Pam Slim at The Good Life Project site. In fact, if you want to pick incredible people´s brains about topics ranging from design to entrepreneurship, that´s exactly where you should land. At the end of her interview, Pam Slim mentioned that, for her, to live a good life was to live it full color and full contact. If we consider the beginning of the year for many educators around the globe at this time of the year, that´s maybe the wisest...

13 jan 2014

by | in Technology

Olá a todos! Primeiramente, gostaria de dizer que é uma honra participar desse projeto da Richmond voltado para professores. Para meu texto de estreia, pensei em escrever um pouco sobre o que resolvi chamar de iTeacher. Não por considerar o professor mais um “i” gadget qualquer, mas por relacioná-lo a uma postura frente às constantes revoluções tecnológicas que vivemos. Parece ser injusta a nossa luta contra as tecnologias disponíveis aos nossos alunos. Muitas de nossas salas de aula, ainda mal equipadas, não são atraentes aos nossos alunos que chegam...