. . . a spectral iPhone. There is no iPhone connected to the trolley.
And the MacBook has been stuck on that screen for a long time. That can’t be good.
Maybe if I go to class, I’ll come back and find that all is well . . .
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HOW TO BE A BORING TEACHER
“Whenever our students get bored, their creativity levels go through the roof, and they come up with a million creative uses for their pens, pencils, books, classmates, the floor and the ceiling in the classroom.” Or they reach for their phones . . .
Recent research suggests that boredom might have many benefits, including increased creativity. A researcher from the University of Central Lancashire carried out the following experiment. She split students into two groups and had one group carry out a humdrum task of copying phone numbers from a phone book and then asked both groups to come up with as many creative uses for two plastic cups as possible…Do you have any doubts as to who got their creative juices flowing at the speed of light?
What the researcher calls an ‘experiment’ is everyday classroom experience for many teachers. Whenever our students get bored, their creativity levels go through the roof, and they come up with a million creative uses for their pens, pencils, books, classmates, the floor and the ceiling in the classroom. However, we’d never plan a boring task. Never. It’s the topic, which is boring.
Asserting that we have…
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#MobileDeviceManagement Lesson 1
My aims for this blog . . .
(In no particular order.)
- Provide a space for me to jot down my reflections on my teaching.
- Share my opinions and observations, however ill-informed, on ELT and e-learning.
- Hopefully reach out to others in e-learning/ELT roles.
- Whine piteously about mobile device management.
- Think of a snappy title.
- Others TBC as I think of them.
But in the main it’s an experiment: to see if I can actually sit down and keep this thing going, even if it’s only a post a week. Let’s see what happens.
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