Simon P posted an interesting article about posting images of our younger learners online. We must obviously ask for parents’ permission in order to do this, but George Couros, the writer of the article, says we should also ask for the learner’s permission – and not just a blanket ‘I allow you to use my image now and at any point in the future’, but rather for each individual instance. In this way, we model that you should always ask for someone’s permission before posting their image online – everyone has off days and so may be happy to have their image shared on one occasion, but not another.
Learning Theories
If you want to go beyond approaches and methods, check out this image of learning theories…
Hacking Assessment
Ceri shared this interesting infographic on ways in which we can change assessment and how we approach exam classes.
Image from elearninginfographics.com
Simon P: I started to think about which ones I’d like to focus on. It’s basically all of them! Not do much the first; I think we do that we’ll or the one about publicising the classroom which I don’t know if students would like! Be others sure do provide food for thought.
Ceri: I think we do 1 when we work with models – whether that’s watching the oral exams on youtube, or sharing good essays ( our own or from other/higher level classes) – blogs or fb groups are ways of publishing/publicising the class – as is displaying students’ work on the walls.
Some great teacher humour from Edel on the facebook page!
Grabbing their Attention
Thanks to Simon for posting this image on the facebook page – some ideas on how to grab students’ attention when they’re not engaged. It comes from this page, which has lots of ideas on teaching and using technology in class.
PET Speaking Practice
Claire posted a link to a site which provides learners with sample answers for the PET Speaking Part 2. The student chooses a picture and talks about it and afterwards can scroll over the picture to see some sample sentences.