Friday 27 February 2015

Living in a Digital World. 3rd session English Language Course CFPIdiomas

Georgina Lovatt -an expert on Digital World- ended the session with the question: What´s  the lack of absence? What does it mean? A kind of loss of lack...
The End of Absence by Michael Harris tries to explore our lives in order to find out parts of the earlier world (before Internet) we do not want lose forever. The author reclaims what we have lost in a world of constant connection.

This reflection leads us to have a look at the world we are living in. And the kind of users- as far as Tecnology concerns- we are: foreigners, settlers, immigrants or native
Georgina presented the questions:
What will the next step in brain Evolution be by reading the article  entitled The Next Step in Brain Evolution (Sunday Times)
And what are our students´expectations?
Georgina Lovatt  also suggested two videos about Digital Natives by Marc Prenski and about Creativity and Education by Sir Ken Robinson
We can also suggest the book Teaching Digital Natives by Marc Prenski

This third session of English for Success Course provided us not only lots of reflections on our lifes and World surrounded by gadgets but also the way our students are aware of the life they are living.
A digital world connects all of us and set the pace and determine the course of learning and definitely living.
Teachers involved in this Course showed abilities to cope with digital natives learning and proved themselves being  digital settlers or immigrants. Thank you!


Friday 13 February 2015

PHOTOGRAPHY AND US: ENGLISH FOR SUCCESS

Living in a world where smart phones and other devices allow us to inmortalize every tiny space and moment , it is our perception what really counts.Photography can show the world the way we are looking into. It can start up a different idea of the same topicCreativity by images is not only a language but also a way of understanding the conjuction among Humans, Enviroment and Cultures.   A junction among languages . Expressing ideas byphotography can show the World from another dimension.Education contains all these elements and they are offered for us to express, to communicate.Probably many ideas arise after watching and going in depth during the session, the video and the resources presented at the course: thanks to an expert , David Lott  who helped broaden our minds



HUMAN PLANET by  expert photographershttp
IDIOMS IN PICTURES. THINK by Joe Eitzen

Another interesting session we enjoyed last Tuesday (10th Feb). Thanks for attending it. Thank you to David Lott. Lots of ideas to explore

Thursday 5 February 2015

HEALTHY BODY, CLEAN MIND: ENGLISH FOR SUCCESS COURSE

In order to develop  specific language resources for  implementing precise and natural communication in English in the classrooms and also for updating the understanding and communication processes properly in specific communication situations, teachers are being trained through ENGLISH LANGUAGE FOR SUCCESS, a course devoted to deal deeply with 4 different interesting topics connected toHEALTH AND SPORTS, PHOTOGRAPHY, DIGITAL WORLD AND GLOBAL CULTURE

The first session ended with a wonderful applause for the great ideas Petrina Moir gave us. Always welcome!