Spot It!, also known as Dobble, is a matching game where players look at two circular cards and need to identify which object is on both cards. Each card shares exactly one object with every other card. The game comes in a variety of themes to match the intended audience. Spot It! can help ELLContinue reading “Spot It! Adjectives”
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Chapter 8: Virtual Communication in the Classroom
What are some other ways global virtual communication can be used as a classroom tool for learning? Virtual communication in education massively exploded during the COVID-19 pandemic. Schools were shut down and students were quarantined at home. During all this chaos, educators worked to stay on mission. I think the future of education will lookContinue reading “Chapter 8: Virtual Communication in the Classroom”
Why Board Games?
Games should always have a place in class. When students are having fun and feeling good, their affective filters lower, and they become more receptive to learning. However, not all games are created equally. There has been lots of research and handwringing over screen time, and I think educators are responsible for providing alternativesContinue reading “Why Board Games?”
Chapter 7: What is 21st-Century Literacy?
How would you define literacy in the 21st century? How would you define modern-day collaboration? Twenty-first literacy should be divided into public production literacy and private consumption literacy. Production literacy needs to understand how large masses of people use technology because messages need to be made to fit the audience. One example of this understandingContinue reading “Chapter 7: What is 21st-Century Literacy?”
Chapter 6: Creativity is Prohibited
How is the current educational process prohibiting creativity? How does standardized testing prohibit it? A teacher at my school has a little post-it note on his desk with the mantra “If you can’t measure it, it didn’t happen.” I respect him a lot and think he’s one of the best teachers in our school. ButContinue reading “Chapter 6: Creativity is Prohibited”
Chapter 5: Facts and Opinions
Why is it increasingly important for today’s students to be able to differentiate fact from opinion and exam data for underlying meaning and bias? This is a pre-COVID question. The example of “myth-information” presented by Crockett et al. stressed the dangers of dihydrogen monoxide (2011). In 2022, this example feels quaint and charmingly harmless. WeContinue reading “Chapter 5: Facts and Opinions”
Chapter 4: Applying the 6 Ds
What challenge or problem could you apply the 6 Ds to in your life right now? I want to apply the 6 Ds to the problem of helping my students score well on their Cambridge AS General Paper exam, specifically the argumentative essay section. Standardized tests may not be the most effective assessments of 21st-centuryContinue reading “Chapter 4: Applying the 6 Ds”
Chapter 3: Additional Skills for the 21st Century
What additional skills can you think of, above and beyond those mentioned in this chapter, students will need to succeed in the 21st century? The most important skill students will need is flexibility and the ability to retrain. The world has changed a lot since Literacy is Not Enough was published in 2011. The numberContinue reading “Chapter 3: Additional Skills for the 21st Century”
The Role of Technology in Language Class
ChatGPT has been in the news. School districts around the world are scrambling to handle a massive shift in education. Students can now use ChatGPT and similar software to instantly produce believable and competently written essays. ChatGPT is not the focus of this post, however. Instead, I want to hone in on simpler translation appsContinue reading “The Role of Technology in Language Class”
What’s Your Teaching Style?
While learning styles may not be as important as many people believe, at least they’re out there. Much less known (at least I hadn’t heard of them until recently) are teaching styles. As educators, we often focus so much on our students we forget to self-reflect. “Know thyself” has been the first step towards bettermentContinue reading “What’s Your Teaching Style?”
The Keasy Depot 