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January 25, 2018

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DISTURBING STUDENTS

In our school days, we detected several problems within the classroom such as lack of motivation, school absenteeism, bad conducts, authoritarian teachers, old-fashioned teaching methods, among others. Unfortunately, some of these problems still happen at schools in this day and age. The problem we have proposed is related to those students who bother their peers and prevent them from learning. We have called them "Disturbing students". This situation has been explained through the qualitative method called Photovoice . This technique consists in combining photography 📷 with audio 📣 that describes the issue addressed. This was an assignment for IDIIE lesson.

Interesting website

Hello! Last week I discovered an amazing website named TEFL.net . It is a general site with information about TEFL in which there are jobs offers or training courses. But what impressed me the most was the EFL lesson plans. It may not be the prettiest site but it definitely makes up for in usefulness. It has free, downloadable worksheets organized by level, topic and skill, as well as ideas for games and activities that can be adapted to different levels. There's even a “worksheet generator” for those times you need to create a matching exercise or a scrambled word activity for your class, with specific vocabulary from a lesson. I really find this webpage very useful. What do you think? Do you know other resources related to TEFL? by Elisa

Gamification in English Lessons

Our students nowadays are digital-natives and spend a lot of hours glued to screen -- What would happen if we introduce technology and certain elements during our classes? Millions of teenagers spend most of their time online and find school and English classes boring. As secondary teachers, we face this challenge every day. How can we motivate them? Well, we can implement a new approach which attract our students attention: Gamification. Gamification uses game-based mechanics, aesthetics and game thinking in order to engage and motivate students, promoting learning in an entertaining way. In doing so, learnes feel more interested in what they are learning, they participate more actively and they can also compete and collaborate with their peer, thus learning from each other. We can use these elements to gamify our classes: Challenges / tasks that users perform and progress towards defined objectives Points that are accumulated as a result of executing tasks ...

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