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 Seeing critical thinking as a complex process, some questions arise naturally. One of them for example is the level of English skills learners need, before they are ready to actually use critical thinking. The answer comes with the definition of what critical thinking actually is. Critical thinking is the intellectually disciplined process of actively and skilfully remembering, understanding, applying, analysing, evaluating and creating gathered from, or generated by, observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, or communication, as a guide to belief and action. This process is also considered as hierarchy for teachers. So the learners need to acquire these skills before they efficiently use critical thinking in their learning process. Critical thinking helps us link the already familiar with known language in order to reflect on what we know and what we need to know. Let us consider vocabulary. There are 600.000 words in the official Oxford Dictionary. In order to comprehend...

Google Classroom is part of G Suite for Education, and is becoming increasingly common in schools, offering a great way for teachers to connect with students online.  On the one hand, it offers a way to directly teach, but the provisions of teaching materials also means that students who are unable to attend classes can still be provided with catch-up works and notes, and the same additional homework. With the recent pandemic forcing a lot of students into distance learning, this means that G Suite for Education can really make a difference to teachers and students who might not have already used an online learning platform. Google Classroom uses the standard G Suite office software tools such as Google Docs as well as spreadsheet and presentation applications, audio and video conferencing, not to mention Google Drive for online storage. Additionally, there are administrative tools to make it easier for teachers to manage their classes. A key benefit of Google Classroom i...

Hello everyone,  I hope you are doing well. This week's topic is related to Constructivism. As the word implies, constructivism is the process of learning through the construction of language. Students weight new information against their previous understanding, thinking about and working through differences and then come to a new understanding.  Now lets trace its meaning back into history. Constructivism can be found in the work of Jean Piaget, identified with Piaget’s theory of cognitive development. Piaget focused on how humans make meaning in relation to the interaction between their experiences and their ideas. His views tended to focus on human development in relation to what is occurring with an individual as distinct from development influenced by other persons .(source: Constructivism, Philosophy of Education). Learning in a constructive way is active because you construct knowledge rather than just aquire it. --- But what does ...

Hello everyone!  First of all I hope this blog finds you and your families in good health. As this week's topic I am going to talk about Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences and cooperative learning.  But what is cooperative learning? By the term cooperative learning we understand an instructional strategy that allows small groups of students to work together on a common assignment. They can work on a variety of problems, from simple math problems to large assignments such as proposing different solutions for different matters on a national level.  In order to be characterised as effective, c ooperative or collaborative learning activities would invite students to be more active participants in their own learning, to share and discuss their ideas, to engage in argumentation and debate. The benefits of this type of learning include deeper learning, acquiring new life skills and seeing it as a way to change things up. By collaborating with others students will de...