Monthly Archives: April 2013

Are we ready for this?

We have been hearing about the term “21st Century Teacher”, a concept that ideally tells us the modern day educator should be equipped not only with the cognitive, affective, and psycho-motor skills to meet the needs of the students to facilitate learning,

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How we see reading as a process

(Today I a book called reading Development in a Second Language: Theoretical, Empirical, and Classroom Perspective by Elizabeth B. Bernhardt. This is based on her discussion of what reading is about) All throughout this time, we see reading as an

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IT’S ALL IN THE MIND

Reading as a Process by: Rogelio T. Alegrid Reading is a neural activity. Changes in the brain result from each reading that you do. Whether you will continue to read or turn to another activity depends on the connections that

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ONE COMPUTER IN A CLASSROOM?

ISSUES AND RESEARCH IN EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY by: Rogelio Alegrid (Photo Source: http://vnnxchjhjj.blogspot.com/) The use of computers in school is probably one of the the biggest achievements in education. related to this so called “achievement”, there are just so many issues concerning

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THE TEACHER AS A READING MOTIVATOR

I often wonder how I can push some of my students to read. A lot of students nowadays dread so many things- difficult reading materials, academic reading materials, and long reading materials. As a result, they find ways in order

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what this is about

This blog will feature an interactive hub for discussions for teaching, educational papers, plans, and activities. The topics will mostly feature READING, LANGUAGE LEARNING, LITERATURE,  INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS etc. Feel free to comment and interact as this will help us learn.

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