Marc Jones @marcjones
English Language Teacher. Doing an MA TESOL Applied Linguistics until Sept 2017. Mastodon not on my phone so will toot sporadically. #listening #taskbased
Thanks for the boosts @Rupicapra @bgcarlisle
New on my blog:
A sum up and an invitation.
It's about English Language Teacher development and a call to do some research together, open on the internet.
https://freelanceteacherselfdevelopment.wordpress.com/2017/08/18/a-sum-up-and-an-invitation/
@ojahnn I'd say that's a weird context but the grammar is fine if a little unusual. I find ad hoc more of a written form.
"Don't cross the streams!" Advice for statistics software as well as ghostbusting.
@katebowles Urgh, goodness. I hope all is well and your flight is deeply uneventful.
@rwallace @ShorterPearson Welcome to the Mammoth!
@hugo Thanks so much for the offer.
It's goodnight from Japan, Mastobeings. Be zarjaz to each other.
@lauraritchie @ShorterPearson @katebowles Makes me smile. I'm glad that I know educators pushing back against the Apple Superstar Educationifiers and Google App Smashy Special Dataminey Teachers. I long for the madness to stop (and it is a madness, a collective hallucination that datamining our young people for large companies is 'awesome' or'disruptive').
@lauraritchie @ShorterPearson @katebowles Five quid is cheap! I also posted this a couple of weeks ago about ed tech and what we ask our students to do when we ask them to use web apps:
@katebowles @ShorterPearson 100% agree. There's a huge issue with informed consent & knowledge of what people do. I helped make this unit ( http://connectedcourses.net/thecourse/trust-and-network-fluency/ ) and my obliging husband (my oracle) did the interview - you can listen or download the text (it's worth a read/listen) I'm aware how little people know about the nature of trust, privacy, & what we ask others to do & that includes me. I am a little clued up, but it's the tip of the iceberg. https://phonar.org/2014/09/connected-courses-pre-req-is-my-data-showing-in-this/
@lauraritchie @ShorterPearson @katebowles I've thought about starting an instance. I don't know how much it would realistically cost, or which hosts will host Mastodon.
@ShorterPearson @katebowles @lauraritchie Thanks, Chuck! I loved my Twitter community until the negative behaviour started getting more and more prevalent, including my own. Sometimes it feels like Orwell's 2?-minute hate in 1984.
Ideally, we'd all be able to just set up a Mastodon instance for our students on institutional servers and maybe keep it private. I know at least that all of my institutions would not even humour me and just outright say no. 🙄
@katebowles @ShorterPearson @lauraritchie Hi, sorry to jump in. I have profound reservations about Twitter for my students (English language learners). Some of them have very fragile English Language Identities and I feel Twitter is just too free and easy with meanness, certainly at the moment.
Here is a useful post about free webtools by one of my online acquaintances. https://nathanghall.wordpress.com/webtools-no-registration-needed-for-students/
@bgcarlisle Superb news! Big up!
Ooh, a job interview teaching on a CLIL-based course for junior high and high school students aiming to study in foreign universities. Half excited, half scared.
Anyhow, #CLIL hive mind (I'm sure there are some of you on Mastodon), what were the challenges when you started teaching using CLIL, and what is still a challenge?
@TesalKoksi Always a pleasure!
@marcjones I have learned more about a student's strengths & weaknesses from a single project than I have ever learned from a test or quiz. As such, I avoid tests and quizzes whenever possible. Even my final is a rubric-based project.
@Antanicus @marcjones Thank you. Many of my students still have misconceptions about my grading policies and how much effort they need to put into a project, but I do try.