Elda Osmanai Group B 2020

  Hello everyone! I hope this blog finds you well.   The topic I have chosen for this blog is about teaching vocabulary through technology. I chose this topic, because, when I was in the elementary and secondary school, learning vocabulary was very boring. We would learn the new words by heart, repeating them several times or (the most tiring activity) writing a single word ten or twenty times.  So, I decided to "explore" some ways how to make teaching of the vocabulary fun, so that my future students won't suffer like I did.  First of all, I think we should be clear about what importance vocabulary plays in language learning.  Vocabulary can be defined as '' words we must know to communicate effectively,words in speaking (expressive vocabulary) and words in listening (receptive vocabulary)''. Its importance stands in the fact that it makes people communicate with each-other. Take for example 2 cases: In the first case, someone starts learning ...

  Hello everyone! I hope this blog finds you well.   The topic I have chosen for this blog is the use of social media in education.  It might sound a little bit odd, but yes, there are schools that apply the social media for educational purposes.  For some teachers, it might be a nightmare, but surely, to all students it is a dream come true.  But what do we really mean by the collocation "social media", which are its benefits and disadvantages and how can we implement it? What do we mean by "social media"? Social media  refers to websites and applications that are designed to allow people to share content such as videos, photos, opinions quickly, efficiently, and in real-time. Some social medias, as we all know or at least have heard about include: Facebook, Twitter, Whatsapp, Instagram, Youtube, Pinterest, Blogger etc.                              ...

    Hello everyone,     It is a pleasure to be in touch with you again!   Today's topic is "Constructivism and DDD-E". I had read about constructivism in other subjects, but DDD-E was a new term to me and I needed to make some "researches" about it in order to understand its value in teaching.       We were given some materials to read about Contructivism, so I assume everyone knows what it is and what stands in its core. However, I am making a brief summary. Constructivism in itelf is an approach and its central idea is that knowledge is constructed. I am sure we all remember how we listened to our teachers for hours back in school, sometimes even being afraid to make questions, because the teacher was always right. If we'd make questions, it would mean we weren't paying enough attention and we'd be punished. Well, the contrary happens inside a classroom where Constructivism is implemented.   The students are considered as...

  Hello everyone,    I hope you are all doing well!   Today's topic is about cooperative learning and the use of Multimedia in heterogeneous classes.  I think we've all found the traditional classes boring and instead of actually listening to the teacher, we would do other things such as sketching in the notebook, read something else or even use our cellphones. I remember an English teacher of my high school who spent 45 minutes of the whole class explaining and asking us to tell the previous lessons by heart. No matter how much I loved English and how good I was, it still was a nightmare to me attending that class. And yes, it was boring!   On the other hand, there were teachers who would allow us to work in groups and I still remember the excitement of the class when we were told to do so. The groups consisted of five members of different levels, let's say. Some of us weren't friends, but for the sake of the common good, we would accept e...

       Hello everyone! I hope this blog finds you well.     As you can guess from the photography above, I have decided to dedicate this post to books, particularly to the importance of reading, as it has been accompanying me during all of my life and especially during these dark days we are all going through. I decided to write about books, because yesterday I came accross one of the books that I read when I was only 9 years old, "The Big Friendly Giant" by Roald Dahl (Maybe you've watched the recent film). I was surprised to see its brown stains or the stains of time as I like to call them, as it made me realize how much the time has passed and it made me meet my 9 year old self. It might sound a little bit odd, but holding this book in my hands reminded me of my dreams, promises of the past. I met my friends of the story and myself there. And I realized, that just like the book that now has the brown spots, but whose characters remain unc...

 Hello everyone! As this is my first post, I would like to mention the impact of this new form of communication between us. The very first thought that came into my mind was how would I get used to it and whether I would succeed on opening an account. It turned out that opening this new "door" towards the huge world of technology was not that difficult that it would be, because the key was already given (the instructions given to us). Writing my first post, I can say I'm excited about this way of presenting my work, it seems like it is burden free of the pressure I sometimes have when presenting a topic in the real life.  We all know education is a very complex process and the teacher's roles are endless. One of these roles is to be a facilitator, to make the students understand the subject better. I can make a short comparison between my two teachers of history in my high-school. One of them made us read the text and later we would just reproduce the information, ...