I have bad news. I’m addicted to screens. And you might be too. Maybe you don’t know it, and perhaps you’re even denying my accusation, but try to answer the following before you attempt to defend yourself: These and many other questions on the topic can help you identify signs of addiction. If you’re still …
Screen Addiction: How Digital Devices are Affecting our Brains Read More »
If you think you’ve created a teaching method, think again
It’s been nearly a month since my trip to Italy came to an end in the beautiful city of Trapani where we held our latest edition of EdYOUfest. I had the honor of closing the second day of EdYOUFest with a shorter – but thought-provoking – session on the importance of making errors and how …
Error! A Reflection on the Role of being Wrong, Feedback, and Learning Read More »
Here I am, in a great café in Goiânia, thinking about these last 5 months. When I set out to work as a freelance consultant, I thought I’d have more time to embrace lots of interesting projects and work on things I’ve been longing for since I came back from my master’s program in 2019. …
Yes, now I’m a freelance consultant. Part 2 – Choosing gigs Read More »
Being a freelance consultant is both frightening and exciting. I have much more time now to design courses, workshops, write materials, and connect with people. However, it’s always difficult to promote my work without using those digital marketing formulas that, quite frankly, can be very deceiving. If you’re on the same page, wondering how you …
EDCrocks Events: How to make your work more visible Read More »
We’re still celebrating our profession worldwide and I thought I should give you folks a present. I thought really hard what this present could be and I came up with the following idea: A compilation of some of my videos (workshops, lectures, and interviews) so that you can work on your CPD and perhaps even …
Christopher and I met because of social media and a bit of luck. One of us liked a post or wrote left one another a comment and the next thing I knew I realised we were going to attend three ELT conferences in three different countries together. Christopher is one of those people you can …
50 Zero Preparation Games: A guide by Christopher Walker you need to get right away! Read More »
I attended for the very first time the amazing InnovateELT conference in Barcelona. I was honored to speak for 30 minutes about the Mind, Brain, and Education science to a full house in room 10 at Oxford TEFL, the incredibly charming venue with a lovely garden, wonderful people, great talks, and craft beer (yes, this …
Take a few seconds to think about your daily routine at work. If you’re a teacher, you probably go to your school, get into the teachers’ room where you might keep the materials you’re going to use in class, get the books and worksheets you need, go to the classroom and start to teach. Now …
5 Reasons Why You Should Flip Your English Classroom Read More »
It seems that the word of the day in education conferences is the overly repeated term NEUROMYTH. I’m not saying that’s a bad thing at all. As a matter of fact, I’m benefitting from all this fuzz since this is one of my favorite topics, something I’ve studied for a couple of years, and quite …
