Informed Teachers

Inspiration: "If we teach today as we taught yesterday we rob our children of tomorrow."                                                                               John Dewey "When students are attending our lessons, we can do our best to make them aware of all these resources. We need to remind them of all the ways they can access English on their own. (…) There is a lot we can do to help our students plan for the teacher-free future."                                                                                                   ...

This post has a compilation of the main points from some of the workshops from the ABCI conference I attended from the 12th - 14th of July 2012. More details on this congress on : http://www.abci2012.com.br/About.php Below the key points from more workshops I attended:      Critical Thinking Lindsay Clandfield  What is critical thinking and literacy? Taxonomy -  higher types of thinking (manipulation of ideas, solve problems, construction) #  lower order(receive, recite, transmite and reproduce knowledge) We are in the Information age Educator needs to create a opportunities for higher thinking Open your mind for different possibilities Critical Literacy _ political knowledge too, social act, questions what is presented, learn about others and ourselves He suggested starting the debate of a topic with a citation, or debating which out of some sentences are facts and opinions, make sts relate and debate and have conflictin...