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      English Language Teacher Educator Conference 2013

      British Council, EFL – U (English and Foreign Languages University), ELTAI (the English Language Teachers’ Association of

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      English Teaching Graduate Scheme

      This new scheme from the British Council will help provide unemployed graduates (from the last three years) with a gateway into an exciting and dynamic career which gives an insight into other cultures and communities while also helping people around the world to meet their own goals and aspirations.

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      Forty products to help with learning a language

      Over on Edsurge they have produced a list of forty ways to learn a language. 

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      Build a School in the Cloud: TED Talk by Sugata Mitra

      Educational researcher Sugata Mitra is the winner of the 2013 TED Prize. His wish is to build a school in the cloud, where children can explore and learn from one another using on-line resources and collaboration.

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      British Council announces 5th ELT Research Partnership scheme

      The British Council is now inviting proposals for the 5th ELT Research Partnership scheme.

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      Revolution, not Evolution

      A Curriculum for Excellence provides us with a singular opportunity to radically transform our secondary school curriculum. It seems to be taken as a fact in education that change should be something that evolves over time ... Read more
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      Learning From a Native Speaker, Without Leaving Home

      The best way to learn a foreign language may be to surround yourself with native speakers. But if you can't manage a trip abroad the Internet and a broadband computer connection may do the job, too, bringing native speakers within electronic reach for hours of practice.... Read more
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      How Podcasts and Other Media Feed Learning Addiction

      In a recent series of blog posts I talked about the concept of ‘learning addiction', and that for some people, it can be very tempting to continue acquiring vast quantities of knowledge far and beyond any practical ability to apply it.... Read more
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      Five ways to improve technology in education

      It's important for our educators to understand and adapt new technologies so that students can benefit from read / write instruction instead of a stale, read-only education. To help them along, here are five ways to improve technology in education ... Read more
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      Information or technology

      The key to understanding information and communication technologies is that their potential for development does not lie in their electronic wizardry, but rather in the information that is communicated by their use, and the subsequent informed actions of citizens.... Read more