https://www.actiondays.co.uk/activity-days/blindfold-driving/ When I think about the potential of the digital future of education, it scares and excites me at the same time. There is still a part of me that assumes we are just a couple of steps away from some sort of William Gibson-esque cyberpunk future where all of us are more isolated and … Continue reading Being in a Car Driven by a Blindfolded Driver: Attempting to Predict the Future of Education
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First Reflections on the Power and Role of Technology
“Embedded in every technology there is a powerful idea, sometimes two or three powerful ideas.” Neil Postman This one quote has stuck out to me this week. Reading through Postman’s “Five Things to Know About Technological Change” has made me reassess what technology is and what role it is supposed to play in our society. … Continue reading First Reflections on the Power and Role of Technology
Continue readingWhat have I learned about assessment?
As I look back on my time in ECS 410, I can now see how little I knew about assessment coming into this class. When I first entered this course in Janurary, I thought that I had a handle on the ideas of diagnostic and formative assessments, and hoped this course would help me to … Continue reading What have I learned about assessment?
Continue readingWrapping up the Inquiry
Looking back on when I began my quest of researching engaging EAL students, I can see how misguided I really was. At the beginning of this inquiry project, I believed that EAL students could be a major obstacle for teachers. They can barley speak English, if at all, so how am I supposed to teach … Continue reading Wrapping up the Inquiry
Continue readingInquiry post 5
Today, instead of reading an article on the topic of engaging EAL students I watched a video on the topic. The video, Teachers TV: Engaging EAL Learners, focuses on one teacher in England and her science class, which includes a large group of EAL students. As the teacher goes through her lesson, she is watched … Continue reading Inquiry post 5
Continue readingUsing my inquiry project in the classroom
The interesting thing about my inquiry project is that I didn’t need to use it too much when I actually went into my pre-internship Of the two classes I taught, only one of the students would be classified as an EAL student. So, it made it very difficult to use these strategies in a big … Continue reading Using my inquiry project in the classroom
Continue readingInquiry post 3
As I have gone through the journey of learning about how to engage EAL students in the literature classroom, I have goen through many books that present many similar ideas. If there is one thing that all of these ideas have in common, it is that to properly teach EAL students you need to have … Continue reading Inquiry post 3
Continue readingIt’s all over now
Well, I have come to the end of my pre-internship and, somehow, I have survived. It has been the most exhausting, exhilarating, exciting, and enriching experience I have had during my time as an education student. There were days when I just wanted to pre-internship to be over, and now that it is, I’m going … Continue reading It’s all over now
Continue readingA truly powerful experience
As opposed to my last post, about the worst day of my pre-internship, this post will be about a more positive experience. Ironically, it also comes from Creative Writing 20, but doesn’t deal with writing at all. My partner had wished to do lessons with the class about oral literacy, and the importance of listening. … Continue reading A truly powerful experience
Continue readingA tough day at the office
I now it is a little bit strange to be writing about an experience I had two weeks ago now, but this is something that has stuck with me since it happened. Two Mondays ago, my partner and I had begun to think we had got the flow of things as we team taught our … Continue reading A tough day at the office
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