EUROTORRENTE 3.0

ClasDojo es una estupenda aplicación que despertará el interés y activará la participación de nuestros alumnos. La plataforma permite crear grupos de alumnos agrupados por clases y establecer un sistema personal de puntos positivos y negativos que se van asignando y acumulando en cada alumno. Una buena idea puede ser debatir los primeros días con los alumnos qué actitudes sumarán y cuáles restarán y cuánto. A partir de ahí, que empiece el juego. Uno de los aspectos positivos de la web es que se puede invitar a los padres como observadores. Ellos podrán seguir al día qué ha hecho (o no hecho) su hijo en clase.

The following list includes some useful links to practice vocabulary and grammar learning and teaching. Here , a lesson plan is presented as an example.  Vocabulary https://wordart.com/ http://www.wordle.net/ http://www.wordclouds.com/ http://www.tagxedo.com/ http://www.wordhippo.com/ http://www.just-the-word.com/ https://forvo.com/ https://www.vocabulary.com/ https://thenou nproject.com http://wordnik.com/ http://www.lextutor.ca/ New words OnlineThesaurus Boggle Corpus linguistics http://www.googlefight.co.uk/ https://books.google.com/ngrams https://datagifmaker.withgoogle.com/edit https://trends.google.com/trends/ http://www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/ http://corpus.byu.edu/ http://www.macmillandictionaries.com/features/from-corpus-to-dictionary/ https://www.online-utility.org/english/readability_test_and_improve.jsp Grammar https://www.englishgrammar.org/exercises/ lhttps://www.teach-this.com/grammar-activities-worksheets/superlatives http://www.manythings.org

Rachel Carden (University of Brighton) made a very useful presentation on how technology can be applied along the different stages of the academic year. She uses her own experience and strategies with her university students but most of her ideas can be easily applied to other levels. To see it, click here .

Recently, some studies have been carried out regarding the teaching techniques that have proved to produce good results in students. Some experts suggest that a proper combination of them would make the most of our students.  Professor Robert Marzano has reviewed and shynthesised classroom based research and has produced  Top Ten Active Learning  Methods. The figure in brackets after each method is the average 'effect size' in experimental trials. An effect of 1.0 is roughly equivalent to two grades at GCSE or A-Level. 1. Identifying similarities and differences (1.32): students comparing and contrasting concepts is one of the best techniques. 2. Graphic organizers (1.24): creation of diagrams, mind maps, comparison tables... 3. Challenging tasks (1.2): tasks that will be difficult for the students and require reasoning and not just reproducing.  4. Feedback (1.0): it should include reinforcing effort, providing recognition, self and peer assessment... 5.  No