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Post 6: Credit test requirements

Dear All, I'd like to explain to you the credit test requirements You need to prepare a lesson plan for the lesson you are going to teach us during your presentations tomorrow. The lesson plan should cover the whole lesson, but you're going to teach us a part of it, explaining the rest of it during the presentation. I'm asking you to share your plans until 7 pm tonight (27 April, 2020) for me to have time to get acquainted with them. I'm going to grade your presentations together with your plans. Here is a link to a sample lesson plan you can use to prepare yours: It is based on the speech titled "Txtng is killing language. JK!!! by John McWhorter. It's based on the talk discussing the development of the language, esp. in terms of SMS eslbrains.com/txtng-is-killing-language-jk It contains the Students' ( https://eslbrains.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Txtng-is-killing-language-by-John-McWhorter-SV.pdf ) and the T...

Post-5: Mobile Technologies in the Classroom: Week April 13-April 20

Dear All, Today and in the next couple of classes we are going to discuss with you when and how you can use mobile technologies in your classroom. To introduce you to this topic I'm sharing with you a book written by Agnes Kukulska-Hulme, Lucy Norris and Jim Donohue Mobile pedagogy for English language teaching: a guide for teachers : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1npIiWH0MSYwyzUpDqBAWLd-afiWW--WF/view Read Chapters 5 A Framework for Mobile Assisted Language Teaching and Learning Study the diagram A Pedagogical Framework for Mobile Assisted Language Teaching and Learning and be ready to discuss the following questions:  a) What is the role of teacher wisdom on the learning process b) How do different device features can contribute to the learning process (give an example from your leaning and/or teaching experience c) How much can learner mobilities contribute to/become an obstacle to the process of learning using mobile devices? When you design the activities yo...