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Pokemon Go is just the tip of the iceberg.
We can get creative and devise educational ways to use Pokémon, but if we are solely focusing on the App, and forgetting that there is more depth to this than just the Pokémon Go Version, we could be missing big … Continue reading
The Soul of the Personal Project
I have been interested in transitions for a long time. I am fond of the mental and cognitive transformation that all of us undergo when we move form one plateau to another. Some of these transitions are like the metamorphosis … Continue reading
The Learner Profile as a Map
The learner profile and its attributes are ideals and realities; they are noun and verbs; they are seed and promise. Many times, the learner profile is underestimated as, some say, it romanticizes the learning process. Nonetheless, as a former video … Continue reading
Posted in Lesson Planning
Tagged Approaches to Learning, ATL, Attitudes, Attributes, Competencies, Concept-Based Inquiry, Discovery, Learner Profile, Map, Skills
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Skills lie in the eyes of the beholder and in the hands of the doer
Discussing the skills students require to be successful in this century is like eating tortillas for Mexicans, quite common (and please note that I am Mexican). Yet, as Tracy Immel states, it would be worth thinking about the skills that … Continue reading
Change Ahead
For the last 3 years, educators in my department (IB Language Acquisition / foreign language) have been working hard at enriching and diversifying our appreciation for diverse approaches to teaching; as well as at broadening our explorations of learner-centered practices … Continue reading
Posted in Concept-Based Language Instruction
Tagged Approaches to Learning, ATL, how we learn, Learning Styles, MYP, PYP, Transition
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Weather Forecast
Generating a learning climate where students’ cravings and curiosities serve as the engine that stimulates inquiry and encourages us to study a certain theme/concept in class is something we, teachers, need to keep our senses ready for- so that we … Continue reading
Posted in Concept-Based Inquiry, Systems of Collaboration
Tagged ATL, Concept-Based Inquiry, MYP, opinions, questions, survey
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An EFL Approach to teach Spanish as a Foreign Language
One of my teachers in university constantly reminded us to understand that students (regardless of their age) will be able to perform in any given scenario as long as we modelled some examples prior to the execution of the task, … Continue reading
Posted in Concept-Based Language Instruction
Tagged Approaches to teaching, ATL, Beginning Spanish, Celebrations, Festivals, spanish, writing
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Designing solutions in the foreign language class
The fact that students can possess basic linguistic skills as they are learning a foreign language does not mean that their thinking skills are as limited or at that process of development. Learning a language includes acquiring an understanding of … Continue reading
A Saturday morning urge to affiliate with science, music and other forms of life
If I were a science student in Middle School and my teacher asked me whether I was familiar with Björk’s Biophilia album, I would respond: ‘that is so 2011!’ This incredible musician/artist is an icon in my generation, but honestly … Continue reading
e-approaches to teaching and learning: a new paradigm in curriculum delivery.
In March 2013, I presented a paper entitled Uses of mobiles and learning platforms as a medium to develop and improve linguistic competencies in a foreign language course, at e-Society International Conference, in Lisbon, Portugal, evidently studying the learning platforms … Continue reading
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