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Using English for Academic Purposes. A guide for Higher Education students. Includes theoretical approach, tips, materials and links.

"Nowadays teachers and students have a variety of ways to show what they know and to express themselves. Take a look at some of the hottest online and mobile tools for showing, explaining, and retelling in my infographic, "Show What You Know Using Web & Mobile Apps." These web and iPad apps can turn students into teachers and teachers into super-teachers! Furthermore, most of the apps listed in the infographic are free of charge. Updated February 2015 with 11 of the 44 apps in "Show What You Know" replaced with even better apps! New additions include Chatterpix Kids, RecorderHQ, Vocaroo (to replace the defunct RecordMP3), Shadow Puppet Edu, Pixlr, TeleStory, Toontastic (now that it's 100% free), and Purpose Games. You can download the infographic as a PDF by clicking the image below. Web links and app names are hyperlinked within the PDF for one-click access to the apps and resources."

"Close Reading and Argument Writing - Authentically Across the Curriculum 7/16/2015 0 Comments Close reading of informational texts and non-fiction articles is not - and should not be - reserved for language arts classes. Every content area would be immensely enhanced if science teachers, social studies teachers, physical education teachers, welding teachers, woodworking teachers (in other words, "all technical subjects," as Common Core states) would not push aside the textbook, but instead embrace it, along with content area and trade articles. Students would then simultaneously learn how to dissect the readings while gaining knowledge in these content areas. What often happens is that teachers feel that students can't handle the text books or can't read the articles independently - and often that is true. However, when teachers instead go into a survival mode, of sorts, and read aloud the whole chapter or article or summarize it with a slideshow, it ends up doing a disservice to students - students are not learning HOW to read these complex texts. They are not learning how to acquire the information on their own. They are not being given the skills to read the sometimes intricate information within a particular content area or even within their possible future trade. They are not being given the opportunity to read, understand, articulate, and discuss or even debate topics within their area of study. Teachers sometimes feel that they can't do these things with students because they are not language arts teachers, or because they don't have time, or simply because they don't know how. Alternatively, a simple solution is to let go of the control and let students do…..with the guidance called close reading. Close reading is a guided reading approach. It is guided because 1) the close reading strategy is reserved for complex texts that are often too high for students to be left with independently and 2) students don't use close reading strateg

Post de Jaume Olmos sobre el proyecto que se ha puesto en funcionamiento estos dias y que tien como objetivo levar a cabo un gran debate sobre el proposito de la educación. De momento se puede participar en la campaña actual abierta en Twitter con el hashtag #purposedES

Artículo de Fernando Trujillo de 500 palabras para la iniciativa Purposed/Es.

Artículo de Fernando Trujillo de 500 palabras para la iniciativa Purposed/Es.

¿Cuál es nuestro propósito?

Cuatro reflexiones sobre la repercusión que el uso de blogs tiene para estudiantes, profesores y coordinadores. ¿Los profesores que participan activamente en blogs están preparando el escenario y la construcción de una plataforma sólida para su desarrollo profesional continuo y aprendizaje permanente? ¿Los profesores que usan blogs en su aula están aprendiendo a enseñar bajo el prisma del siglo 21? ¿El blog mejora las habilidades de escritura de los estudiantes? ¿Los motiva y compromete? ¿apoya el desarrollo de las habilidades del siglo 21? ¿amplía los contenidos curriculares, objetivos y habilidades?

Nueva entrega de purpose/ed ES, a cargo de Alejandro Asarbach, incidiendo una vez más el tema de la autonomía del aprendiz y de la imbricación entre aprendizajes formales e informales. Recomendable como siempre.

"Crea el propósito de tu vida"