Informed Teachers

I n this video, I share my  successful experience of having students (adult and teenagers) enhance their lexical and communicative skills by collaborating in real time using the app Google Docs in their mobile phones.  I show the evolution of their first drafts and attempts to their current usage and how that has impacted their written and oral production. Just to contextualize my practice, I am a teacher of English as a foreign language (EFL) in São Paulo, Brazil. Over the course of twenty years of classroom practice, I have given classes to all CEFR levels from A1 to C2, children, teenagers and adult learners. I have been an EdTech blogger since 2011 and have very intensely researched apps to enhance both self study and classroom experience of students and teachers. I am an enthusiast of using tech resources in my classroom practice, as long as they have a clear learning purpose. Here's the video with my participation in the 30 Goals On Line Conference...

  Support Learning with Apps_a digital walk , by Raquel Gonzaga This post is in collaboration with The 30 goals challenge , by Shelley Sanchez Terrell Goal: Learn with an app To accomplish this goal, learn with an app or help your students learn with an app Motivation to go digital A quick time-travel is required here. The year was 2011. The very beginning of smartphones & tablets epidemic in Brazil. I realized I had something in my hand called smartphone, which was said to have many resources and possibilities, so I decided go check it out. I got fascinated by the number of free resources that could be adapted for an educational purpose and decided to give it a try. How was I then to share my findings with colleagues and students? A blog seemed to be the answer and then the idea turned into 'InformedTeachers' , my channel to share my app suggestions and other tech-related EFL activities. For each learning purpose, an App       The fi...