This week´s journey has been very useful and exciting. We have been taken to a place full of waterfalls that are amazing resources which will feed and quench our thirst for knowledge and that will expand our horizons when teaching and planning. The more we travel into this path to knowledge, to more we see the great variety of places that conform the universe of learning.
There is something, however, that has become clearer each week and that is the fact that the educational process is a road that has to be built together, as group. Nobody can go anywhere or build anything by himself or herself. As we share web sites, programs, applications, or just ideas, we see how much we can do as a team.
Some of the places shared this week are really useful. They range from a wide a variety of skills such as reading, listening, and speaking and all of them can be used with different purposes in our classes. In addition, many of these web sites offer even plans for each class as well as the answers to the different activities. Do you want to see it with your own eyes? Well, just check this amazing multi resource web site: Listening,Speaking, and Pronunciation Tools
The learning process is never ending; it goes with us all along our life. All we have to do is just open our eyes and see the marvelous sights around us for they will become the founding rocks upon which knowledge is erected. Regards from paradise! Héctor.
Dear Hector,
ReplyDeleteI feel the same way as you do. So far at my school there were not many teachers willing to use web tools in their teaching but after I introduced things I have learned so far in this course the interest of my colleagues rose rapidly and they are asking for more. As you have said, we have to cooperate in order to achieve our goal in teaching. As a group we will manage easier and faster. That is why I start to like the teacher forum on the Nicenet.
Matej
Dear Hector
ReplyDeleteI like your idea that 'The more we travel into this path to knowledge, to more we see the great variety of places that conform the universe of learning.' Now we have more tools.It takes time to master craft of using. We learn much from each other.
Regards
Krishna
Dear Hector,
ReplyDeleteYour idea that "the learning process is never ending; it goes with us all along our life" is very close to my teaching credo. And my favourite quotation is "All I know is that I know nothing"(Socrates). And we should study hard every day to keep pace with the technical and scientific progress.
Regards, Nataliia.
Dear Hector,
ReplyDeleteI very much liked your title for this week. It seems to say that "Knowledge is life" although in a much more elaborate and profound way than I tried to summarize it. I loved that you connected active listening to life iteself and I'm guessing to intra- and inter-personal relations maybe?!
I also believe that Man's Quest is based on questions and in order to get the answers he must listen, patiently and attentively listen. The metaphor of the "road" that you used with regards to learning again reminds me of this life-knowledge equation. I would thus give it a short sequel in the form of a latin quote: "Cogito ergo sum."
My best wishes,
Alina