An MYP Language Acquisition and Individuals & Societies classroom with open doors
For my Course 1 final project, I chose to modify the first unit taught in G6 (MYP 1) for Spanish Language Acquisition Phase 1. Being the first unit, it not only introduces the students to Spanish as a language, but it also helps the students get acquainted with key aspects of the Hispanic culture. This [...]
Buzzing. That is how I can best describe how I felt after attending the Learning2Asia conference last November. My brain was doing overtime with all the ideas that sparked during and after the conference. (You can read how L2Asia led me to Coetail here). One of the many remarkable moments was listening to Julie Lindsey [...]
When I was about seven or eight, my father took me to his former school for a foundation anniversary celebration. I don't remember much about the event, but one memory is still very vivid in my mind. I remember entering what must have been a lecture hall that had been preserved from the time of [...]
For quite a few years now, I have seen this image do its rounds in social media. Although simple in presentation, it conveys a powerful message about technology integration in the classroom: digital tools are there to help with the learning process, but they are not the learning goal in itself. They are a [...]
Forty thousand. That's the estimated number or search queries on Google per second. The same source states that in 1998, the year Google was founded, the search engine received 10000 search queries per day. As it is evident, we live in a time where the amount of information is growing exponentially, and so is the [...]
"Mummy, why don't you have on Facebook pictures of yourself when you were a kid?" This is what my seven year old son asked me once when I was showing him some photos of when he was a toddler that came up as a memory in my feed. While looking at the photos, I mentioned [...]
On November 2nd, 2017 I walked into what I believed was going to be an interesting, yet new experience: my very first Learning2 conference. I was unsure about what to expect, but was keen on the format and learning from other educators. Unbeknownst to me, on November 4th, I would walk out with way more [...]
The MYP Classroom 