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4 Educational podcasts for curious teachers

28 de fevereiro de 2023

The ones who interact with me know what a podcast freak I am for more than a decade now, when it was still a hustle to transfer a podcast to my mp3 player. All of it to bring new and fresh learning experiences to my students. Even when I didn’t have connection, it worked. When...Read More

Educational Technology, Resources, Teacher Development, Technology

digital education, digital resources, EdTech, edtechtools, podcast, teacherdevelopment, teachers

Before we worry about ChatGPT, let’s enjoy it

22 de fevereiro de 2023

by Henrique Zamboni

If you’re a teacher, it is very unlikely that you haven’t heard about ChatGPT. But in case you haven’t, to put it simply, ChatGPT is a chatbot developed by OpenAI and launched in November 2022. This tool has raised many concerns among many professionals, but especially educators as ChatGPT is likely to be used by...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Educational Technology, Lesson Ideas, Reflections about Education, Resources, Technology, Trends in ELT

challenges, classroom activity, creativity, EdTech, educational technology, reflection, technology, teenagers

3 Things I’ve Learned from Teaching Teens Online

16 de julho de 2020

by Henrique Zamboni

An increased interest in online teaching has emerged in recent years. Such interest has become even more prominent due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the quarantine, during which teachers worldwide had to take up online teaching overnight. Many of us had been teaching adults – or taken online lessons and courses ourselves – for a...Read More

#StaySafe, Classroom Experiences, Educational Technology, Reflections about Education, Technology

challenges, Classroom experiences, EdTech, reflection, teaching, teenagers

Finding Common Ground Between Technology and Kinaesthetics

16 de dezembro de 2018

by Henrique Zamboni

If you have been teaching teens for the past years you have probably noticed how attached they are to their mobiles or tablets. To say that they love technology is an understatement. Playing video games, watching TV series and films or listening to music are some of the usual activities they perform in their free...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Educational Technology, Games, Lesson Ideas, Resources, Technology

#kinaesthetics, classroom activity, creativity, EdTech, technology, teenagers, teens

Augmented Reality: is it worth it?

1 de novembro de 2018

by Paulo Dantas

Although augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) are quickly becoming mainstream in education, and by 2018, the AR device market is expected to reach about $660 million, according to the New Jersey Institute of Technology. AR and VR found their way into the EFL classroom in 2016, when the incredibly popular smartphone game...Read More

Technology, Trends in ELT

AR, EdTech, technology, VR

8 Tips for Not Turning your Makerspace into the Next Computer Lab

28 de outubro de 2018

by Carla Arena

Though the maker movement has been around for a long time now, and if we consider Dewey, Papert, among other educators, we’d say it’s been around for decades! If we go event further and look at makerspace as those garages where kids used to work with their parents on projects, fix things and solve...Read More

Educational Technology, Reflections about Education

amplifica, creativity, EdTech, edutrends, maker, maker movement, makered, makeredu, trends in education

Educators Going Digital: Don’t Let Fear Get in the Way

28 de fevereiro de 2018

by Carla Arena

It’s been some years already that we’ve been talking about m-learning and its promises, but with not much consistent use of mobile devices as a learning tool with extremely high computational capabilities, sometimes even bigger than our own desktops (certainly this is my case!). There are simply countless ways to deepen the experiences and learning...Read More

Educational Technology, Lesson Ideas, Technology

digital, digital classroom, EdTech, elt, how-to-plan-a-lesson, learning, learning strategy, lesson idea, lesson planning, puentedura, samr

Power Up your Classes with Youtube Videos

28 de outubro de 2017

by Carla Arena

There´s nothing new on the use of Youtube for learning, but how often do you use its features beyond watching the videos? I´d like to suggest three ways to enhance the use of Youtube videos in the classroom. First, encourage your group to create a collaborative playlist about the topic they are studying. By doing...Read More

Educational Technology, Technology

classroom, classroom activity, EdTech, elt, Google, RSA, TED-ED, video, video in the classroom, Youtube

Rethinking Education

28 de setembro de 2017

by Carla Arena

There’s no need to remind you that technology is pervasive in our lives. It’s everywhere. However, my main paradox is that I see my kids going to school and having very little use of it as a tool for development, personal growth and inquiry. It is a huge paradox because for the past decade I’ve...Read More

Educational Technology, Teacher Development

EdTech, education, Google, learning, playlist, rethinking_education, Youtube

Educators: A Plea for Auditing your Digital Literacies

25 de outubro de 2016

by Carla Arena

It´s been a while that educational communities talk about digital literacies. This has been a topic of my interest for a decade now. Still, what we see is a group of educators who follow exactly the curve of innovation in which we have the early adopters way ahead, investing in the development of their digital...Read More

Educational Technology, Reflections about Education, Skills, Teacher Development, Technology

content curation, digital literacy, EdTech, professional development, professional image

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