Tag: learning
FCC Rejects Net Neutrality Again
Last October, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted 3–2 to reaffirm its 2017 repeal of net neutrality. The vote is a response to Mozilla v. FCC, a 2019 court ruling that found the FCC’s...
Leading and Learning
As debilitating as many of the events of 2020 have been, as we end the year, more recent events...
Language Learning with a Side of Art to Go
With the international threat of COVID-19, educators and families face the problem of keeping students separated while still providing language enrichment programs when faced with shuttered schools and reduced capacities. These are challenging times...
Adapting Assessment to Personal Learning
The shift to online learning calls upon educators to reimagine the ways we structure our courses and facilitate the learning experience. With that comes the imperative to modify the way that we assess student...
Comic Relief
Comic strips or books are very useful to help the learning of French, whether they are used in class with a teacher or read at home. This type of literature is very motivating and...
Taking English Learning Online
Instructional strategies that have proven effective in improving English language learner (ELL) achievement include providing ELLs with intentionally planned vocabulary instruction; using gestures, visual cues, or realia; providing opportunities to practice using language; activating...
A Systematic Approach to Online Teaching and Learning
How surreal it was as we said goodbye to our fellow teachers. We had, of course, no idea that it would be so long before we would be seeing our students. Before we left,...
Former Apple Company Launches Analytics Tools for Distance-Learning
PowerSchool, a tech-education company once owned by Apple Inc, is launching new data analysis tools for millions of educators using its distance learning platform. With the learning gap growing as school closures continue because...
Online Chat with Purpose
Chita Espino-Bravo offers advice on teaching and assessing conversation in a Spanish virtual course
Teaching any virtual conversation class is full of challenges, especially in assessing the conversations and debate sections students prepare virtually.
In...
Finding Drive
There is no question that one’s success in any task is closely related to motivation. Learning a language is no exception. But what is motivation?
According to behaviorist theory, motivation is quite simply...