Coaching connected learning across borders
I can support learning in online and blended course development (often through EU projects)
Absolutely Intercultural
I co-host this podcast about all things intercultural with monthly episodes. On Spotify and Apple podcasts.
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diversophy – intercultural game
Think you know Denmark? Standard and refugee versions of the game for Denmark in the diversophy series.
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En-ROADS for understanding
Solve the climate problem by pulling policy levers! Workshop for students to raise awareness of climate policy levers and local action.
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Latest posts
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Why fish don’t feel water
[For water, read culture.] We all have a culture and this affects our expectations about how life happens, what is right and wrong and what constitutes normal behaviour (“how we do things around here”). The point is that there is no one correct world view but that we all, without exception, see the world through…
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What does culturally responsive teaching look like?
Culturally responsive teaching can be many things. Content The most obvious starting point is looking at the subject you teach. You can find the intercultural angle of whatever subject you are teaching though some are easier than others. Cooking and languages for example include intercultural aspects almost without effort, though you can choose to be…
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What is culturally responsive teaching?
The term culturally responsive teaching (CRT) originates from the US and addresses mainly teachers in K12 school situations. Here the aim is to increase motivation by making sure that every child feels valued and included. A great deal of the US focus is on closing the divide between black and white and increasingly on Latino immigrants. Here…
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Culturally Responsive Teaching: A framework
The Teaching Culture course will help teachers of adults get more out of their students by recognising the additional potential that those with varied cultural backgrounds bring to the room. One of the basic aims of the course will be about how to increase student motivation through culturally responsive teaching. According to Wlodkowski (pdf) such a…
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Goodbye home country
The growing migrant crisis in Europe reminds me of an earlier wave. In the early 80s I was a teacher at a local vocational college in central Wales and as part of the enrichment programme, had offered to set up a student newspaper. In amongst the make-up tips and rockband tributes, I was offered a…
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Learning: rule-driven or curiosity-driven?
I have noticed that there are basically two types of learning and these are either rule-driven or curiosity-driven. Most learning in our education systems seems to be rule-driven and failure in this type of learning happens when the student does not know (or ignores) the rules. My daughter asked me to take a look at a…
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M-HOUSE: YouTube intros
Once all the piloting is done, the M-HOUSE project intends to make its course materials freely available. One of the constant elements in each of the 8 modules is a video introduction. The course modules are shown in the table below and where the module title is linked this leads to that module’s intro video.…
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Intercultural design-thinking online
I carried out an experiment recently to see if I could carry out a design thinking process in a live online session. The problem I wanted to work on was a humanitarian one but presented under an intercultural lens. I was invited to dialogue with Franklin Yartey’s students at Dubuque University in Iowa, who contacted…
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IELTS nuts and bolts
While it may be very exciting to hear about new tech applications or about initiatives in far-flung parts of the world or even about ground-breaking pedagogical approaches, there will always be a place for learning more about the bread and butter of TEFL, ie teaching English, or, in this case, preparing students for a very…
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Content as launch pad?
A conversation I need to practice is the one about interaction in online courses being key. I obviously have not yet got it right because I too often end up in the position where I appear to be downgrading the importance of content. How does this happen? I am not sure, but it seems that…
