English 5010

TOEFL Preperation: Second Language Immersion

Mariana Abuan and Ryan Toth  TOEFL Preparation: Second Language Immersion   Second language immersion is found in ESL, sheltered content, and adjunct classes.  In these classes, the input is still adjusted to the students’ needs, but their first languages and…

Who is Teaching Whom?

Pedagogical relevance means the teacher keeps up with current technology: blogs, wikis, podcasts, social networking. These technologies are currently changing and they will not be current for long.

Learning through Games . . .

Both articles, “Learning and Games” and “Productive Gaming: The Case for Historiographic Game Play” are built upon the statement “video games are virtual experiences centered on problem solving, they recruit learning and mastery as a form of pleasure” (Gee, 16).…

Media Artifact Exercise

For this exercise, I was experiencing difficulty selecting a specific artifact from the list of examples Dr. De Vries provides.  However, out of this minor frustration, I discovered a way to analyze and explore the entirety of artifacts by focusing…