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Showing posts with label EI. Show all posts
Showing posts with label EI. Show all posts
INTERCICLOS Day 2015
Every December our school celebrates INTERCICLOS DAY, a special day when each vocational department prepares fun workshop activities that provide opportunities for students to interact or problem-solve.
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Noam Chomsky infographic
Many thanks to David, 2nd-year Infant Education student for the tip:
Primal Spring: Noam Chomsky: What does Noam Chomsky think about the Language Acquisition Device (LAD), Universal Grammar?
Primal Spring: Noam Chomsky: What does Noam Chomsky think about the Language Acquisition Device (LAD), Universal Grammar?
Do Schools Kill Creativity?
I can't believe I haven't posted this talk before. I first watched Do Schools Kill Creativity several years ago so I have no excuse other than everyone was blogging about it by then.
In this famous worldwide talk, Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case in this talk for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.
Watch the video and answer the following questions on twitter. Use this hashtag: #KenRobinsonTalk
- Who is Sir Ken Robinson? Where was he born? Why is he famous?
- What is TED Talks? What does TED stand for? What is its slogan?
- When was this talk given?
In this famous worldwide talk, Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case in this talk for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.
Watch the video and answer the following questions on twitter. Use this hashtag: #KenRobinsonTalk
- Who is Sir Ken Robinson? Where was he born? Why is he famous?
- What is TED Talks? What does TED stand for? What is its slogan?
- When was this talk given?
More Top Reasons for Students to Blog
New #sketchnote: Top 10 Reasons for Students to Blog cc @courosa @gcouros #blogging pic.twitter.com/iC0TQeDlya
— Sylvia Duckworth (@sylviaduckworth) June 15, 2015
Noam Chomsky on Language Acquisition
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) linguist Noam Chomsky put forward the theory of the language acquisition device in the 1950s.
Chomsky argues that human brains have a language acquisition device (LAD), an innate mechanism or process that allows children to develop language skills. According to this view, all children are born with a universal grammar, which makes them receptive to the common features of all languages. Because of this hard-wired background in grammar, children easily pick up a language when they are exposed to its particular grammar.
Evidence for an innate human capacity to acquire language skills comes from the following observations:
Chomsky argues that human brains have a language acquisition device (LAD), an innate mechanism or process that allows children to develop language skills. According to this view, all children are born with a universal grammar, which makes them receptive to the common features of all languages. Because of this hard-wired background in grammar, children easily pick up a language when they are exposed to its particular grammar.
Evidence for an innate human capacity to acquire language skills comes from the following observations:
- The stages of language development occur at about the same ages in most children, even though different children experience very different environments.
- Children’s language development follows a similar pattern across cultures.
- Children generally acquire language skills quickly and effortlessly.
- Deaf children who have not been exposed to a language may make up their own language. These new languages resemble each other in sentence structure, even when they are created in different cultures.
Source: http://goo.gl/L0igr9
Storytelling Links
Children's Storybooks Online Free storybooks to read, some stories include audio.
ABC Toon Center with stories to share and games to play, super-cool fun.
StoryLine Online streaming video programme featuring famous people reading children's books aloud. Listen to Elijah Wood reading Me and My Cat? in the video below.
Angles365 one of my favourite sites for preschool resources.
StoryBee Huge collection of stories where you can listen to professional storytellers from across the country as they spin their wonderful tales. Just click on your age group, and you’ll find a list of story titles. Click on any title, and the story will play.
Task: Write a post in your blog and add some more storytelling links
Brown Bear, Brown Bear
A classic children picture book written by Bill Martim Jr. and illustrated by Eric Carle. Published in 1967, the book is designed to help toddlers to associate colors and meanings to objects.
You can read the book in the presentation and listen to story narrated by Gwyneth Paltrow in the below below.
You can read the book in the presentation and listen to story narrated by Gwyneth Paltrow in the below below.
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
The Very Hungry Caterpillar is a children's picture book designed, illustrated and written by Eric Carle, first published by the World Publishing Company in 1969.
The Very Hungry Caterpillar uses distinctive collage illustrations, 'eaten' holes in the pages and simple text with educational themes – counting, the days of the week, types of food, and a butterfly's life stages.
The book has been translated into at least 40 languages and it has been used by preschool teachers, librarians, and parents, as a teaching aid, with activities developed which use the book.
In 2009, IEric Carle was invited to create a doodle for the Google homepage. It was online on March 20th that year, the day selected to mark the 40th anniversary of The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
The Very Hungry Caterpillar uses distinctive collage illustrations, 'eaten' holes in the pages and simple text with educational themes – counting, the days of the week, types of food, and a butterfly's life stages.
The book has been translated into at least 40 languages and it has been used by preschool teachers, librarians, and parents, as a teaching aid, with activities developed which use the book.
The Evolution of Storytelling
How storytelling has evolved, and is evolving, is the inspiration for this infograph, which explores the evolutionary process of this important aspect of human life.
The infograph starts off with the origins of storytelling, all the way through to modern times, concluding with a ‘in the future’ section discussing how this evolution will continue. See more at http://ukedchat.com/2014/05/14/resource-evolution-of-storytelling/
The infograph starts off with the origins of storytelling, all the way through to modern times, concluding with a ‘in the future’ section discussing how this evolution will continue. See more at http://ukedchat.com/2014/05/14/resource-evolution-of-storytelling/
When Two Vowels Go Walking
When Two Vowels Go Walking the First One Does the Talking is one of the easiest rule of English Pronunciation. Keep it in mind and don't forget.
Click on the following link so that you can listen to another cute version by Starfall
Click on the following link so that you can listen to another cute version by Starfall
This is Halloween at IES Villaverde
Every year, the English Department leads the Halloween celebrations and activities at IES Villaverde. Take a look at the pics below and you'll see some of the creepy things we do, most of them could never be done without the contribution and help of my terrific students.
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Learning Theorists
Theories of learning that helped change teaching methodologies developed by six remarkable educational theorists and researchers, namely Lev Vygotsky, Jean Piaget, Jerome Bruner, Benjamin Bloom, Erik Erikson and Howard Gardner.
The Book with No Pictures
I had to post this video I came across with a few minutes ago on twitter. It is from one of my all time favourite sites for EFL/ ESL teachers
http://community.eflclassroom.com/video/boo-boo-butt
Find more videos like this on EFL CLASSROOM 2.0
Find more videos like this on EFL CLASSROOM 2.0
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