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mromaine commented on the post, Using Instagram to Encourage Writing in Kindergarten, on the site Exploring Digital Media in Education 6 months ago
I think this is a great project applicable to any language learner: ESOL to foreign language leaner of any level. Use of the Instagram helps children to develop their photography skills at the same time. […]
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mromaine commented on the post, Book Trailers wrap-up, on the site Susan MacIntosh 6 months ago
After reading your blog comments I went to learn more about the Book Trailers online. This sounds like a fantastic project, although we value collaboration among students, the project like this which promotes ones […]
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mromaine commented on the post, Students and Learning with Technology – iPad Focus, on the site Keeping Up With the Kids 6 months, 2 weeks ago
I love your blog post, especially the link to ‘There is More to iPads in the Classroom Than Apps.
Aren’t we all searching for more verification than five stars next to the application icon before downloading to […] -
mromaine wrote a new post, Course 5 Final Project Reflection, on the site Machiko Romaine 6 months, 2 weeks ago
Professor Tosaku wrote in his lecture titled Language Education for the Global Era, “Language education is not only swayed by the leading contemporary theory of language education, but also its content and goals […]
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mromaine commented on the post, Technology: The Speedboat Vessel of Learning, on the site Live to Learn, Learn to Live 6 months, 2 weeks ago
Hi, Seth!
I like your family picture. Say ‘Hi’ to Sandy. Isn’t it fascinating to watch students learn so quickly! An IB school I was once at decided to call students ‘scholars’. I also have heard that parents […]
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mromaine commented on the post, Learning x 2.012, on the site Adam Seldis 6 months, 2 weeks ago
Thank you for sharing ‘12 little ideas/concepts/sayings…’ It is always fascinating to learn about new applications and ideas. I must feel the same as a child when a basket full of goodies is presented at […]
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mromaine wrote a new post, The Unholy Alliance Against Online Learning, on the site Machiko Romaine 6 months, 2 weeks ago
I would like to share my comments on a recent Bloomberg article on ‘Unholy alliance against online learning’
I agree with many comments that the article’s opening lines are a bit strange. It could be […]
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mromaine wrote a new post, Interim Report On Our Final Project, on the site Machiko Romaine 7 months ago
The challenges of increasing students’ deeper understanding of language learning through an online course were greater than Reiko and I had anticipated. One of our goals is to increase their cultural […]
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mromaine wrote a new post, Cyber-Scare Insidents, on the site Machiko Romaine 7 months ago
According to the Sunday morning TV program in Tokyo, there were four separate arrests between June 2012 and today for cyber-scare notices in Japan. These include:
- The bomb scare of Ise Shrine: one of the most […]
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mromaine commented on the post, Schools not meeting students technology needs?, on the site Machiko Romaine 7 months, 1 week ago
Jamie,
Thank you for sharing your comments. It is interesting to know that the educational philosophy driving US public education is still controlling the quality of the curriculum and pushing teachers to […]
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mromaine wrote a new post, Schools not meeting students technology needs?, on the site Machiko Romaine 8 months ago
For the Course 5 final project, we are working with students who take on-line foreign language […]
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mromaine wrote a new post, How should we help increase students’ ‘critical thinking skills’?, on the site Machiko Romaine 8 months ago
In a foreign language class, where most of the contents in lessons are rather basic—like the exchange of greetings, weather, likes and dislikes, school life, home—helping to increase students’ critical thinking […]
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mromaine wrote a new post, Where should we start?, on the site Machiko Romaine 8 months, 2 weeks ago
http://www.coetail.asia/mromaine/2011/11/15/copyrights-east-and-west-3/At the beginning of the Coetail work, I wrote the above blog post for the November 15, 2011 assignment: Copyrights East and West, based on […]
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mromaine wrote a new post, One ‘s’ !, on the site Machiko Romaine 8 months, 3 weeks ago
I found the article ‘What Difference Might One “S” Make?’ very inspiring. ‘I’ve been thinking that instead of Computer Applications, our students should be learning Computer Application.’ What a fascinating way to […] -
mromaine commented on the post, Laptop Learning Curve, on the site Madeleine Cox 11 months, 3 weeks ago
You are very creative. I liked the presentation booklet. Imagine the students’ learning curve that could be also very steep. As a classroom teacher we now have to sit back and understand students’ learning pace. […]
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mromaine commented on the post, CBL & PBL, on the site Adam Seldis 11 months, 3 weeks ago
I think no curriculum is flexible enough to meet the unique culture of the so-called international schools, where 1/3 of the student body changes every year and many transfer in in December or even April. For that […]
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mromaine commented on the post, Global collaboration, on the site Hiromi Hosoi 11 months, 3 weeks ago
Two ladies from ‘Tsunagaaru’ came to the school where I used to teach and explained to us about the website a few years ago. We played around a bit and introduced it to a class but it didn’t go further. Maybe we […]
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mromaine wrote a new post, Reflection (Revised): Project on Media Literacy: ‘What is “Real” in News?’, on the site Machiko Romaine 11 months, 3 weeks ago
It has been a great year of learning at COETAIL at YIS. Thank you everyone. I leaned how to connect and share with teachers who have similar interests, and reflect on and apply what I learned. The reading […]
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mromaine wrote a new post, PBL vs. CBL, on the site Machiko Romaine 12 months ago

Current brain research confirms the effectiveness of such approaches.win carey.wordpress.com
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Personal learning, PBL, problem-based learning, project-based learning, […]
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mromaine wrote a new post, Next 5 years~, on the site Machiko Romaine 12 months ago
Frameworks. Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media …emergentbydesign.comI would like to share the article on the Education Week Teacher titled: Technology that will shape education in the […]
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