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Towards a cyborg pedagogy?

In my recent TESOL Spain talk I talked about teachers' relationship to technology, our sense of identity and Marshall McLuhan's conceptio...

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Towards a cyborg pedagogy?

In my recent TESOL Spain talk I talked about teachers' relationship to technology, our sense of identity and Marshall McLuhan's conceptio...

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Improve your writing with Google Docs and Grammarly

This tutorial shows how to use Google Docs and Grammarly to identify mistakes in your writing so that you can improve it dramatically. If...

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Create Dynamic Online Jigsaw Readings With Instagram Content

Find out how to use high quality images and texts from Instagram to create challenging and engaging online jigsaw reading tasks for group...

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Teach less and review more

In his recent webinar on learning vocabulary Paul Nation pointed out that we can harness our students' fear of losing face for greater up...

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Paul Nation deserves our full attention

Before attending Paul Nation’s recent webinar entitled “What matters in vocabulary learning?” I had only a passing acquaintance with his w...

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Zoom + Flipgrid = better speaking tasks for remote learning

By uploading recordings of pair or group conversations from Zoom we can easily expand the range of speaking tasks we set for our students...

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Who's afraid of Edith Wharton?

Edith Wharton was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize and was nominated three times for the Nobel Prize in literature. What's more,...

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A friend of mine got me Nonviolent Communication for my birthday recently. Although it is occasionally off-putting in its earnestness, this book conveys the compelling premise that we should all pay more attention to the basic human needs that often get obscured by what we say explicitly. Maybe teachers would do well to read less on methodology and more on psychology?

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Towards a cyborg pedagogy?

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Towards a cyborg pedagogy?

Improve your writing with Google Docs and Grammarly

Create Dynamic Online Jigsaw Readings With Instagram Content

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Paul Nation deserves our full attention

Zoom + Flipgrid = better speaking tasks for remote learning

Who's afraid of Edith Wharton?

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