10 Worldly Egotistical Questions

10 Self/10 World Questions   Do my language students know how important they are to me? Do my language students realize that I really care about them? Is there something I am not doing which I should be doing? Do I explain their questions properly? Am I as patient as I should be in all […]

Hip Hop Friday 5

Hip Hop Genius – Remixing High School Education (Video). I can see the merit expressed in this video for combining the everyday out-of-school lifestyles of high school students in incorporating their creativity into the basis for educational achievements. This innovative and, although I am not sure if it is “a quite global phenomenon”, does represent […]

Friday 5 – Wobbling Woes

A Few Online/Personal Resources Which I Utilize to Prevent Wobbling Woes   An online resource that I have found to be quite valuable over the past year is one that is centered in Peru, called “Language Teaching Bloggers” which is affiliated with the Language Center of the University of the Pacific. Almost all the posts […]

Me, Play a Game? 5 for Friday

Five Friday – 2/10/17 1) The most intriguing article in this week’s reading assignments is Mitchel Resnick’s “All I Really Need to Know (About Creative Thinking) I Learned (By Studying How Children Learn) in Kindergarten.” Obviously, I had an understanding of the importance of play for a young child, however the notion that it is […]

Sunday Seven, Feb.5, 2017

Seven Sunday, 2/5/17 1)        I was drawn to this article in KQED, the link being given below. Apparently, the author herself appears to be distorting numerous facts and gives alternate justifications for information that is abundantly disseminated throughout the mass media. The New York Times, Huffington Post, Teen Vogue and NPR can hardly be called […]