My Educational Essays
| Breaking down the barriers. |
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| A practical proposal for improving teachers’ confidence and competence towards adopting ICT in the classroom. The framework provided incorporates
administrative support, technology training, technical support, and
a collaborative network as key elements in the successful adoption of ICT in an educational setting. |
| Creating accessible web text for ESL learners. |
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| Using practical checkpoints, this reflection offers practical suggestions for improving ESL learners ability to read web text. |
| Promoting internet safety through student
responsibility. |
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| An argument that advocates the best way to protect students from inappropriate internet content is to educate them about responsible and safe internet activity. |
| What is human language and how do we describe it? |
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| A brief description of language and the development of languages, with a particular focus on the perspective of Noam Chomsky and the role of Universal Grammar. |
| New Perspectives on Literacy |
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| A description of how the traditional view of what it means to be literate has changed. This article touches briefly on these changes and provides a framework for describing a literate learner in the 21st Century. |