Nhung Nguyen - ESL Teacher

Teaching and learning is an process that require the interaction between a teacher and students. With the development of the technology, this process will surely be affected in the future. For teachers, teaching with technology can deepen students’ learning by supporting instructional objectives. Whereas, students can already learn from their own even without the assistance of their parents and teachers. They are just going to surf the internet in order to look for the lessons they need to study. They will choose what they want to learn. Quick accessibility and well-equipped with the skills and knowledge in operating a computer would be very helpful for the students. Besides, since there are lots of creative images, videos and other graphics and texts that may be found on the Internet, more students would feel the excitement in studying through the use of the technological gadgets. This is very important in order to arouse students’ interest in studying and to help them promote ...

  Module 06: Flipped Learning - Tools and Apps for Flipped Learning As usual, before the lesson on Sunday afternoon with the lecturer, I read the required document about Flipped Learning & Tools and Apps for Flipped Learning. Although I just had a little time for this reading, I found this Module topic this week really intriguing to me. Having read the material, and joined the Discussion forum I found “What is Flipped Learning? How many types of Flipped learning are there? What kind of tools and apps that I can use in the future…?” Actually, it’s really helpful to me, it seems to open my eye about teaching activities with tools and apps. Time flies! and this module is the last one of the course Internet in Language Teaching. I am grateful for our lecturer – Ms. Lan Hường who has helped us a lot on the way to become modern teachers who are not afraid of technology, I want to say she is the one who “take our hands, open our minds” in this field of knowledge. Now, I find tha...

  Last week I learned Module 05: Project-based Learning and Rubrics which is one of the most interesting and meaningful modules to me as through the knowledge of this module, I have found one more useful way to evaluate my students – using Rubric! During the week I had read required document sent on Canvas by my lecture – Ms Lan Hường then I joined the Discussion forum to read and discuss with my class members about the topic “Assessment, rubric and project-based learning”. Next, I joined the RubiStar to create a rubric for an oral presentation. On the class meeting session on Zoom with my lecture, I share with my group members and listen to their sharing about the applying Rubric in our teaching lessons. At last, as usual when we back to the main Zoom sharing, we had chance to listen to many amazing ideas from other groups’ moderators and the lecturer. One of the issue that I am really impressed is the validity and credibility of using Rubric to evaluate students., We are nea...