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Monthly Archives: February 2009

Teaching Tips from the Trenches

Sunday, February 22, 2009

I recently got a barage of requests for “advice”. I really am honored and EVERY time try my best to give the most and most apt advice I possibly can given all the variables involved.
This got me thinking and of course, “out popped a powerpoint”! I thought I’d record my thoughts in some fashion, to [...]

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A Manifesto 4 2morrow’s Learning

Saturday, February 14, 2009

I’ve blogged about this previously but now want to provide for those who haven’t seen it, my full thoughts about the “future of learning”.
Presently, schools don’t get it and that’s why so so so so much learning is actually not school based! Yeah, think about that. Emperical studies have shown that kids learn everywhere, all [...]

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Manga and comics in the EFL Classroom?

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

I’m a BIG proponent of storytelling as a way to support language acquisition. Especially culturally specific stories like folktales, jokes, anecdotes and personal stories.
We are hardwired for the narrative aspects of language. Studies have shown how allowing students to put their learning into a story form, really increases learning substantially. Teachers have even tried it [...]

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