This article first appeared in The Teaching Professor on September 4, 2018 © Magna Publications. All rights reserved. Try a FREE three-week trial of The Teaching Professor! “What you appreciate appreciates” (Twist, n.d.). One of the practices I have employed in most of my classes during the past several years is “the appreciative close,” which…
Like MANY educators, I’ve been spending a fair amount of time on BlueSky for the past few weeks (though I haven’t entirely abandoned Twitter – yet). You can follow me at @larryferlazzo.bsky.social Here are resources I and others have shared there about getting started: This list of ELL/EAL/ELT/ESL educators is at 250 and growing….
Boys Town Nebraska (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Boys Town today announced the filing of patents for two groundbreaking AI-integrated innovations in virtual training & mixed reality technology. Boys Town is a leader in changing the lives of children and families across the country. Boys Town’s success comes with teaching caregivers researched-based strategies to effectively change the…
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Reading Time: 2 minutes How can understanding memory’s three steps boost your teaching impact? Schema theory simplifies learning into encoding, storing, and retrieving information—teachers can use this framework to design better lessons and rethink curriculum planning. Recent research, Innovations with Schema Theory: Modern Implications for Learning, Memory, and Academic Achievement (Meylani, 2024) explains how schema…
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Google now lets you create a chess set representing…anything. It’s fun, and ELL students could make one and describe what they are. It would be nice, however, if Google actually used their AI to create something useful that we could all use that would make it worth the energy consumption AI requires (see Google…