How to Build a 4K Editing Computer
Adults Data Science Design TechnologyThe fast rendering capability of this new machine actually let me eat dinner with my family on the first night I used it. This is incredibly important to me.
Why Beautiful Things Make us Happy
Adults Design Human PsychologyIt’s hard to define what makes something beautiful, but we seem to know beauty when we see it. Why is that and how does beauty affect our subconscious?
Liberals vs Conservatives
Adults Education Politics PsychologyAre Republicans and Democrats different because of biology?
How rollercoasters affect your body - Brian D. Avery
Adults Construction Design ScienceIn 1895, crowds flooded Coney Island to see America’s first-ever looping coaster: the Flip Flap Railway. But its thrilling flip caused cases of severe whiplash, neck injury and even ejections.
Why I Hate School But Love Education
Teachers Teacher Cafe ArtEnglish rapper-poet Suli Breaks is out with a video that's taking the Internet by storm, and young people are loving it.
Repetition in ELT
Teachers Teacher Cafe LanguageAuthor Scott Thornbury talking about the use of Repetition in English language teaching.
The benefits of Extensive Reading
Teachers Reading Teacher CafeProfessor Richard Day, Chair and Co-founder of the Extensive Reading Foundation, explains the benefits to language learners of extensive reading.
Google Apps for English Teachers webinar
Teachers Teacher Cafe TechnologyLead by Kevin Brookhouser, Google Apps for Education Certified Trainer and Google Certified Teacher.
Learn some more ways you can use Google Docs & Sites in your English classrooms to have a collaborative writing process and dynamic assignments.
How do you stop online students cheating?
Teachers Teacher Cafe EducationHere is an article (and a video that doesn't seem to be working) on cheating and online courses from the BBC.
Imagine taking a university exam in your own home, under the watchful eye of a webcam or with software profiling your keystrokes or your syntax to see whether it really is you answering the questions.
Online university courses have become the Next Big Thing for higher education, particularly in the United States, where millions of students have signed up for courses from some of the most upmarket universities.
Sugata Mitra: Build a School in the Cloud
Teachers Teacher Cafe EducationEducational researcher Sugata Mitra won the 2013 TED Prize. His wish is to build a school in the cloud, where children can explore and learn from one another using on-line resources and collaboration. Dr. Sugata Mitra's Hole in the Wall experiments have shown that children are able to teach themselves and each other without formal teaching, if they're motivated by curiosity and peer interest.
Engaging Generation Y with technology, 28th March 2013
Teachers Teacher Cafe TechnologyWe're not always teaching Generation Y, but learners think and behave differently than those from previous generations. These students were born into a world of information technology; they regularly multitask and they trust the ideas of peers and web videos more than their teachers.Generation Y is significant: it constitutes 20 percent of the world's population. As Gen-Y occupies the young end of the population demographic, we can assume many second language learners belong to this group; it demands our attention and understanding.
Louis Rogers - Academic Vocabulary
Teachers Teacher Cafe LanguageThe four skills of reading, writing, listening and speaking have dominated the EAP classroom for many years; however in the last decade academic word lists has given much greater prominence to vocabulary teaching. This talk will give an overview of some of the main studies into creating Academic Word Lists and look at the impact of vocabulary knowledge of skills such as reading.
Learn English Apps
Teachers Teacher Cafe TechnologyCheck out these excellent apps for your mobile device of choice!
No Internet? No Problem!
Teachers Teacher Cafe TechnologyOne problem with integrating most technology is that schools and teachers rely too much on Internet access. We forget that even without the Internet, laptops and mobile devices are very powerful learning tools. Here are a few ideas of the many, I do with students that do not require a class Internet connection.
Steven Pinker on Language Pragmatics
Teachers Teacher Cafe LanguageSteven Pinker talks about Language Pragmatics and how language is learned through context.
100+ video sites every educator should bookmark
Teachers Teacher CafeBringing multimedia into the classroom is a great way to engage students in learning. Supplementing lessons, opening up new interests, and offering inspiration, online videos make for an incredible teaching tool. Check out the very best sources for educational videos on the web.