We are storytelling animals. Our brains are optimized for stories. Stories captivate us, simplify comprehension, and enhance recall. You can accelerate language learning with storytelling. Here’s how.
How many website accounts do your students need for your course? Multi-platform syndrome is the frustration that students feel when their teacher asks them to make accounts on multiple websites, with each website requiring new logins, navigation, and user-experience challenges. Here’s the solution.
AI-powered courses are the future because they give teachers superpowers to develop meaningful lessons, correct errors, and respond to students’ ideas at a level never considered possible before.
If you are like me, you want to maximize the number of opportunities for your students to practice their writing. But if your students are like mine, they won’t write a word unless it is scored, unless they receive actionable feedback, and unless they feel the presence of a reader.…
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Teachers often spend a lot of time and energy in the classroom trying to transmit information from inside their expert heads into the novice heads of their students. This is the tradition view of pedagogy that needs changing. Here’s why…
Students learn to write better by writing more often. That’s why I have added a new automated evaluation to Labodanglais.com and Labodefrancais.com. It’s a self-scoring writing assignment to evaluate English and French writing. The teacher simply sets thresholds, scores, and feedback messages. Students write, submit, and receive their scores seconds…
Wouldn’t it be great if a student could instantly receive a score and feedback, after watching a video and explaining to a classmate what he or she heard? An evaluation like that would be much closer to the way language is actually used in the world. Labodanglais.com makes it possible. Students watch a video and then record themselves summarizing it. The assignment plugin scores their oral automatically. Doesn’t that sound so much better than giving students a listening quiz?