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Learning. For Real.

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My nephew, Constantinos, by the sea in Thessaloniki. The following post was inspired by Kristen Swanson's post  What Motivates You? (Probably not grades.)   After I read the post, I immediately started writing a comment, but then I thought I should better write a post and build upon what I had just read that resonated with me. Kristen begins by asking herself why she writes and *SPOILER ALERT* answers by recognizing the value she gets through her peers and all the feedback on her writing. So then, she continues, why don't schools foster this type of commitment to learning in students? Exactly!  What we really need to do is make students' work meaningful by opening it up to the world and by applying real-life contexts to the classroom. Ideally, there would be no classroom, but that's another issue. I know students who started blogging on a class or club blog and liked it so much that they started their own blog. This is exactly what we need. To make ev

New TESOL EdTech Post Series

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One of my New Year's Resolutions was to blog more. Hasn't happened yet, I know. But there's been some progress! Since December, I've started writing a regular educational technology column for the TESOL Macedonia Thrace Northern Greece quarterly e-bulletin. My goal is to  share ideas and tips with other educators, based on my experience with EdTech. Ideas and tips for learning and helping other people learn. I will be posting these articles here as well. I hope you find them useful. You can tell me what you think by adding a comment.