How can use Mobile in learning?
M-learning offers a powerful and practical solution to many learning and training challenges, such as: as a classroom alternative to books or computers, (promoting to use the mobile devices in the classroom), increasing the interaction in the class room. Lecture can sending short note or question to student, and receive [...]

Thinking as a Communication Skill
 
Dr. S. P. Dhanavel
Professor and Head
Department of English
Anna University, Chennai-600 025
dhana@annauniv.edu
 
Key Words: communication skill, thinking, listening, speaking, reading, writing
 
Abstract
 
Traditionally, communication skills in general and language skills in particular refer to listening, speaking, reading and writing. Years of teaching and learning these skills from school level to college and university level show [...]

1. Introduction
1.1 All-round development of the personality is the ultimate goal of education and, therefore, the learning experiences provided in the school should contribute towards the achievement of this end. Accordingly the expected outcomes of learning cannot be limited only to the cognitive domain; it is necessary to delineate learning outcomes expected in the [...]

Teaching and Learning Activities
Higher Levels of Learning
*How to produce big gains in your student learning
While preparing to teach, or throughout the semester, ask yourself what am I doing to encourage my students to:

learn how to learn
be motivated
help them change their values
learn how to interact better with other people [...]

There are even more ways to kill a new-born idea. Here are just a few. You can probably fill in the rest.
Ignore it
Say nothing. Pretend that it was not said. Let it die in silence. Most people can take this hint that they have said something that is not wanted.
Criticize it
Say how bad an idea [...]

Being creative in a dingy hovel with people shouting at you is probably not the best environment to encourage optimal creativity. In practice, you need a range of measures to help this fragile flower bloom.
The working space
Environments which are dirty, cramped, uncomfortable and noisy are not the best for encouraging creative thinking. If we can [...]

Almost all teachers come across a student, student personality type or even whole nationality or age group that meet their grammatical explanations, suggestions for self-study or ideas on how much error correction they need with a sceptical look or even a “That’s not right”. With other types of people the fact that they do just [...]

Peer observations are when people are observed by someone at the same level, usually meaning a fellow teacher rather than a senior member of staff such as a Director of Studies. The person who observed then gives some feedback, which could be anywhere from a simple “Thanks, I thought it was great” to written feedback [...]

Gargoyles
Students design gargoyles for modern buildings, e.g. metal ones for Guggenheim in Bilbao
 Armour
Students design armour for a present policeman, solider, American football player or teacher in a rough school using medieval technology
 Pilgrimage
Students play a board game on taking a pilgrimage, role-playing difficult situations such as meeting bandits and pirates
 Humane inhumanity
Students roleplay a lord and someone [...]

by Judy Yero
 Many research studies have suggested that the most important factor in student learning in schools is the quality of teaching. Why, then, is so little attention paid to teacher thinking and its relationship to effective teaching? Why do so many books, professional development workshops, and reform efforts focus on what teachers should be [...]