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Ways to use a movie for language teaching

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It can help you with coming up with questions. Or have a more general discussion about what beliefs Dickens was trying to challenge with this story. Writing exercise: Ask the students to write a summary of the movie or a particular scene. The first student who sees/hears it, stands up and mentions what he found.

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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

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There are widespread beliefs about the best way to teach and learn that have been proven wrong by science, yet they persist. The Nudge tool is a system for scheduling text messages that pose short questions to students that prompt them to recall things they’ve learned in class after a certain amount of time.

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Could Giving Parents Homework Help Students? Schools Try ‘Family Playlists’

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She based the program on the belief that learning happens best when supported by a triangle of strong relationships between teachers, students and families. The family member must answer a few yes or no questions about whether the student understands the assignment before it can be submitted to the teacher. It’s amazing stuff.