Comments for English Attack! Entertainment English Blog http://blog.english-attack.com Pedagogical Innovation and news from the world of teaching English Sat, 12 May 2012 03:27:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Comment on Pedagogical Principles by Heather http://blog.english-attack.com/welcome-to-english-attack/comment-page-1/#comment-509 Heather Sat, 12 May 2012 03:27:32 +0000 http://blog.english-attack.com/?page_id=88#comment-509 Hello, I was just browsing your blog website: http://blog.english-attack.com/ and it is very appealing. I really like the site presentation and am interested in placing a blogroll do-follow text link on your site for our non commercial online schools blog/info website. Please send me an email at your earliest convenience to discuss rates and advertising options for your website. Thanks for your time. I look forward to doing business with you. Have a great day! Regards, Heather Hello,

I was just browsing your blog website: http://blog.english-attack.com/ and it is very appealing. I really like the site presentation and am interested in placing a blogroll do-follow text link on your site for our non commercial online schools blog/info website.

Please send me an email at your earliest convenience to discuss rates and advertising options for your website.

Thanks for your time. I look forward to doing business with you.

Have a great day!

Regards,

Heather

]]> Comment on Glasgow On My Mind by Johanna Stirling http://blog.english-attack.com/news/glasgow-on-my-mind/comment-page-1/#comment-491 Johanna Stirling Wed, 04 Apr 2012 08:27:12 +0000 http://blog.english-attack.com/?p=1067#comment-491 You say a lot here that I agree with. Technology gives us opportunities, sometimes amazing opportunities that just didn't exist before. It enables us to do new things that drive learning or to do old things better. But within individual lessons we have to start with the language aim. Just as when using coursebooks - identify the aims of the lesson and then think "how can the material in this unit/this app help me to achieve those aims?". And then of course we have to be willing to veer from that during the lesson if need be. There's nothing wrong with (most) coursebooks and nothing wrong with using tech per se but they must be our slaves not our masters! So basically I'm just agreeing with you! You say a lot here that I agree with. Technology gives us opportunities, sometimes amazing opportunities that just didn’t exist before. It enables us to do new things that drive learning or to do old things better. But within individual lessons we have to start with the language aim. Just as when using coursebooks – identify the aims of the lesson and then think “how can the material in this unit/this app help me to achieve those aims?”. And then of course we have to be willing to veer from that during the lesson if need be. There’s nothing wrong with (most) coursebooks and nothing wrong with using tech per se but they must be our slaves not our masters!

So basically I’m just agreeing with you!

]]> Comment on Glasgow On My Mind by mura http://blog.english-attack.com/news/glasgow-on-my-mind/comment-page-1/#comment-490 mura Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:26:53 +0000 http://blog.english-attack.com/?p=1067#comment-490 nice to read a critcial piece on IATEFL conference not read many if in fact any. (though you could read my critical post here http://wp.me/pgHyE-5X) i think that maybe a lot of teachers presenting tech related stuff assume that teachers will adapt the technology as fits their teaching approach and pedagogy? i know that trying to filter the vast amount of tech related stuff is hard so having someone do that is useful. ta mura nice to read a critcial piece on IATEFL conference not read many if in fact any. (though you could read my critical post here http://wp.me/pgHyE-5X)

i think that maybe a lot of teachers presenting tech related stuff assume that teachers will adapt the technology as fits their teaching approach and pedagogy?

i know that trying to filter the vast amount of tech related stuff is hard so having someone do that is useful.

ta
mura

]]> Comment on Glasgow On My Mind by Karenne Sylvester http://blog.english-attack.com/news/glasgow-on-my-mind/comment-page-1/#comment-489 Karenne Sylvester Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:13:54 +0000 http://blog.english-attack.com/?p=1067#comment-489 Superb post, Paul. I've been hazily reading some of the conference reports and while they have all been really interesting, I found this to be the most aligned with my thinking (and ranting)! I don't much like the whole move into edtech (or actually CALL referred to as edtech, rather than it actually being educational technology) without the taking of the time for pedagogical rationale - (actually why I'm studying this); dislike the "this has bells and whistles" approach, so now it must be a fantastic learning tool; don't care much for "the teens use games so we can adapt the most random game to teach English with," whether or not they need the language, theme" (or, indeed, the lack of understanding the difference between gaming, game based learning and gamification) - and while I do believe that there will be an inevitable shift towards mobile technologies (of their various shapes and formats) within the coming years, die each time I open up, to try out, an app that sets out to "teach" English through (again) forced lexical sets of useless or non-existent contexts. Karenne Superb post, Paul.

I’ve been hazily reading some of the conference reports and while they have all been really interesting, I found this to be the most aligned with my thinking (and ranting)!

I don’t much like the whole move into edtech (or actually CALL referred to as edtech, rather than it actually being educational technology) without the taking of the time for pedagogical rationale – (actually why I’m studying this); dislike the “this has bells and whistles” approach, so now it must be a fantastic learning tool; don’t care much for “the teens use games so we can adapt the most random game to teach English with,” whether or not they need the language, theme” (or, indeed, the lack of understanding the difference between gaming, game based learning and gamification) – and while I do believe that there will be an inevitable shift towards mobile technologies (of their various shapes and formats) within the coming years, die each time I open up, to try out, an app that sets out to “teach” English through (again) forced lexical sets of useless or non-existent contexts.

Karenne

]]> Comment on Homework: The Final EFL Frontier by Lisa Rodriguez (Fab Five) http://blog.english-attack.com/news/homework-the-final-efl-frontier/comment-page-1/#comment-487 Lisa Rodriguez (Fab Five) Thu, 29 Mar 2012 14:56:40 +0000 http://blog.english-attack.com/?p=720#comment-487 Hello Aaron, Do you have a wife named Becky? Deborah and I have been trying to locate her for years.... Hello Aaron, Do you have a wife named Becky? Deborah and I have been trying to locate her for years….

]]> Comment on Young Learners Language Education Tops Family Budget Priorities, Shows Verbalisti Survey in Serbia, Montenegro, Croatia and Bosnia by English courses in London http://blog.english-attack.com/news/young-learners-language-education-tops-family-budget-priorities-shows-the-verbalisti-survey-in-serbia-montenegro-croatia-and-bosnia/comment-page-1/#comment-486 English courses in London Wed, 28 Mar 2012 16:16:28 +0000 http://blog.english-attack.com/?p=1056#comment-486 nice post.. language courses always work out when you go outside.. nice post.. language courses always work out when you go outside..

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]]> Comment on 2012: The Year Of English 2.0 by Sharon http://blog.english-attack.com/news/2012-the-year-of-english-2-0/comment-page-1/#comment-454 Sharon Wed, 11 Jan 2012 12:14:57 +0000 http://blog.english-attack.com/?p=994#comment-454 While I agree that technology is good, the danger is that teachers are becoming too dependent on it. While I agree that technology is good, the danger is that teachers are becoming too dependent on it.

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