Technology Teaching Resources with Brittany Washburn: Pros and Cons of schools using a Bring Your Own Device Model. Pros and Cons of schools using a Bring Your Own Device Model Introduction BYOD or Bring your Own device in education settings refers to the policy of permitting students to bring personally owned mobile devices (laptops, tablets, and smartphones) to the classroom in order to use those devices to access educational information and applications.
The phenomenon is commonly referred to as IT consumerization. The term "BYOD" was first coined in the corporate world a few years ago, with companies allowing employees to use their personal laptop computers, smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices in the workplace. Why is it happening? It is widely acknowledged that technology plays a huge role in students' everyday lives and should, therefore, be an integral part of their learning. Importance of BYOD Due to the rapid increase of mobile devices, it is assumed that within next five years the total number of devices will be around 10 billion that means 1.5 devices per head. Pros Cons Brittany. The Edublog Awards | Celebrating the best of the web in education. Google Agenda. Untitled. Downloadable lesson materials.
CrowdWish Level: B2/Upper Intermediate and up Skills: Speaking, reading and listening Language: idioms (dream come true, like magic, step in the right direction etc) and wish (including wish + would) ELT Resourceful – Crowdwish The lesson is about a new online service, CrowdWish, which invites people to post their wishes on their website. Every day people vote on the most popular wish, and CrowdWish will grant it! You’ve got to have a dream Level: B1/Intermediate and up Skills: Speaking and writing Language: reason and result linkers, adjectives of personality A free downloadable lesson, based around a Russian advertising video for shampoo. ELT Resourceful – You’ve got to have a dream Orangutan asks for help in sign language Skills: speaking and listening Language: environment vocabulary (e.g. deforestation, consumers, sustainable) ELT Resourceful – Orangutan asks for help in sign language The lesson starts with an activity to find out what students know about orangutans.
Gratitude A good deed. Welcome to feedly. Safe and simple blogs for your students. 5 Reasons Why Blogging Is Not Dead or Dying. If journalism is now a process, continually updating and iterating on the facts in any given event, then you can't really freeze it in an article anymore, can you? Why Blogging Is Dead — And What's Next, Fast Company There is the argument that we release our information as it happens these days, that our narrative is an ongoing stream, and that an article, once written, is, by its static nature, already behind the times. This argument barely holds up when it comes to writing about current events, because I would argue that some of the most valuable journalism requires longer-form storytelling, but, even if the argument does hold up, not all blogs are about current events.
Blogs are avenues for storytelling, and we have been telling stories to each other for millennia, stories with beginnings and middles and ends. The rise of more platforms like Twitter and Facebook to facilitate ongoing conversations does not signal an end to longer-form content on blogs. So, is blogging dead? The Edublog Awards. Aslı Saglam's Blog » Blog Archive » Rebecca Oxford on Learning (war) & Strategy Training (tactics to win)
Photo Cube “What do these images have in common?” Asked Rebecca Oxford in her presentation “Help Your Students Become Better Learners; Understanding, Assessing and Teaching Language Learning Strategies” given as a part of Yeditepe University Graduate Seminars on 7th March 2011 in Istanbul-Turkey. An astronaut walking on the moon, an airplane breaking the sound barrier, and a rider jumping over a barrier…We responded that in each picture there was a confrontation of a challenge. In other words people were taking steps towards a goal. Then she explained that “strategy” in ancient Greece meant steps to win a war. Then there were tactics which were smaller than a strategy but also aiming towards achievement of goals. “why should we pay attention to learning strategies?” When she asked this question I thought about my own teaching; how much time do I allocate for this?
Language Learning Dimensions and Strategies in Each Dimension A new point of view How do you assess learning strategies? WordPress.com - Get a Free Blog Here. 20 Coolest Augmented Reality Experiments in Education So Far. Augmented reality is exactly what the name implies — a medium through which the known world fuses with current technology to create a uniquely blended interactive experience. While still more or less a nascent entity in the frequently Luddite education industry, more and more teachers, researchers, and developers contribute their ideas and inventions towards the cause of more interactive learning environments. Many of these result in some of the most creative, engaging experiences imaginable, and as adherence grows, so too will students of all ages.
Second Life:Because it involves a Stephenson-esque reality where anything can happen, Second Life proved an incredibly valuable tool for educators hoping to reach a broad audience — or offering even more ways to learn for their own bands of students. Five Best Bookmark Management Tools. Professional blog. Top … ELT People To Follow On Twitter. Google+, Facebook, Twitter, and Blogs - When and Why to Use Each. After week one I shared my thoughts about “What Google+ Means for Education.” I’m on week two now and the big questions are: Do I really need to join another social network? Answer: Yes.If I join Google+ can I give up Facebook, Twitter, and blogs? Answer: No.What is the benefit of each? Answer: See below.Here is where each social media platform shines and why you use each. TwitterTwitter has some important advantages over the other social media contenders. Mobile useHands down, Twitter is the mobile app winner. Of all the social media platforms, Google+ seems to me, to be the best platform for having a conversation.
You can select / target who is seeing your comment. Online business presentation software to create free, cool, animated, PowerPoint video alternatives creator. Things You Can Do With Your WebCam 1. 3 Tools for Exploiting the Wifi During Presentations. Coming as I do from a background in language teaching that emphasises that the teacher should shut up and get the students to do the talking, I often feel uncomfortable doing conference presentations, many of which still follow the format of; speaker gets up in front of audience with presentation - does presentation - audience listen (try to stay awake) and desperately try to think of a few questions at the end to prove they were awake and listening.
One of the gifted- Jamie Keddie. There are of course a few gifted speakers who can hold the audience’s attention for a full hour and keep most of them listening and awake. If like me you’re not one of those, then here are a few tools that, thanks to the increasing availability of wireless connectivity at conference centres these days, might help to turn your passive listeners into a bunch of multitasking audience collaborators. Set up a backchannelOne of my favourite tools to use during presentations is Today’sMeet . Peer Learning Handbook | Peeragogy.org. The 6 Ways Teachers Want To Change Schools. The results of the recently released MetLife Survey of the American Teacher weren’t surprising to many teachers, as it chronicled a steep decline in teacher job satisfaction.
In fact, teachers’ job satisfaction is at its lowest level since 1987. Of the 1,000 teachers polled, only 39 percent claimed they were “very satisfied” with their profession. It is clear from the survey that American teachers are concerned with the state of their profession but more troubling to us, they are not being given a voice in school reform or educational initiatives–decisions usually made by people far removed from local school districts.
So, what do teachers want? We set out to conduct our own poll of educators and we asked only a single simple question: How would you improve the educational experience of your students? Smaller Class Sizes A desire for smaller class sizes dominated the responses we received. Unfortunately, we know that in many school districts class sizes continue to get larger. More Books. English360. Humanizing adaptive learning for ELT Part 1: Knewton, adaptive learning, and ELT Part 2: Open platforms and teacher-driven adaptive learning The debate over adaptive learning at eltjam, Philip Kerr’s blog, and Nicola Prentis’ Simple English has been both fascinating and instructive, not only due to the posts but also the great dialogue in the comments.
It’s a fun topic because it involves our core beliefs regarding language acquisition, effective teaching, and the roles that technology can play. That said, I can’t help but feel that in some respects we’re thinking about adaptive learning in a limited way, and that this limited perspective, combined with Knewton confusion, is distorting how we approach the topic, making it into a bigger deal than it really is. But, given the potential power that the new “adaptive learning” technology may indeed have, we do need to see clearly how it can help our teaching, and where it can potentially go wrong.
Do you have ELT experience in Saudi Arabia? Learning with 'e's. 5 Reasons Why Our Students Are Writing Blogs and Creating ePortfolios. I work in an Independent School in Melbourne, Australia, and this year we have made a commitment to help our students (grades 7-12) create ePortfolios, using an Edublogs campus as the platform. Here are 5 reasons why we are making student blogging and portfolio development a high priority. 1. Positive digital footprints These kids need to establish a positive digital footprint.
Without question, it will be the norm for these students to be Googled when they begin to seek employment. Even employment of the part time variety! They need to cultivate their personal brand, and we can help them by encouraging them to post about the great things they are involved in at school. 2. We want our students to have a handle on how you use digital tools for communication purposes, and not just through networks like Facebook. 3.
Our curriculum is becoming more transparent for our parent population. 4. We need a digital space to demonstrate new methods of learning using Web tools. 5. Amazing or what? Delta Development Blog. Monday 14 April 2014 Interview with David Heathfield by Helen Beesley No comments Watch David Heathfield being interviewed at IATEFL Harrogate 2014 about his new title Storytelling With Our Students. Wednesday 19 March 2014 Louis Rogers talks about Delta Academic Objectives by Helen Beesley No comments In this video author Louis Rogers talks about the two tiltes he has written in the Delta Academic Objectives series. Judy West shows you how to introduce the Ben the Bear puppet by Helen Beesley No comments Watch this short video to see Judy West, author of our new Kindergarten English course Say Hello, show how to introduce the Ben the Bear puppet to pupils.
Saturday 8 March 2014 Learning to Teach English Second Edition – DVD clip by Helen Beesley No comments Watch this clip from the DVD that accompanies the brand new second edition of Learning to Teach English by Peter Watkins. Imagining and improvising with Storyteller David Heathfield by Helen Beesley No comments Monday 3 March 2014. Adrian’s Pron Chart Blog. Learning Together.