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This slideshow illustrates how Professor Caulkins uses Skype to bring authentic voices into the classroom, provide students with opportunities to apply their skills, and bring course content to life with compelling and challenging cross-cultural experiences.

List of "Teaching Blogs" re ESOL, EFL, ELT, MFL, PLNs, and more.

Many language students like to use electronic translators. I teach English and over the years I have watched them grow in popularity. Students love them, there is no doubt about that. Teachers are not so united. Some think they are great, and others hate them. For me, it has taken some time to befriend them, and work out how to take advantage of them in the classroom.

Being able to cut-and-paste a Wikipedia answer about Social Darwinism into an online activity for credit suggests to me the need for more inspired activities, rather than a different technology. There are ways to stimulate thinking, rather than copying, about Social Darwinism -- thinking that you couldn't fake, whether that student is thinking in a classroom or at home. Part of what I take from this article is that schools are using online for the wrong reasons and in the wrong way. This shouldn't be an indictment of the medium, but of the way in which it has been integrated into the K12 system.

Ready to use lesson plans for EFL/ESL classrooms based on the latest events using the most up to date language.

Great response system for classrooms where students don't have mobile technology to use but the teacher does. Each student gets a card that they use for multiple choice or T/F answers. The card is permanently assigned to them by number for the purpose of data collection and feedback specific to a student.

videos, reading, etc. about implementing the 5Cs in the classroom

So, if restricting access to these devices isn't the answer, how do we address their presence in the classroom and use these devices to engage rather than disengage students' attention? Here are a few suggestions…

English language grammar one-page materials: exercises about reported speech with answer keys https://englishstandarts.blogspot.com/2020/11/reported-speech-exercises.html