Black Box
I’ve had a burr in my saddle for a little over a year, probably longer, a problem that pricks me and try as I might to find a solution, I just can’t put my finger on it. On the one hand, we’ve got a robust body of research coming from both applied and theoretical linguistics […]
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June 18, 2014
How do you mark student writing? What kind of corrections do you make? What kind of corrections work, that is, help students do better next time? The authors of a recent article in the journal System address these questions. They compare two models of corrective feedback: explicitly telling a student there’s a problem, and implicitly coaching a […]
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If you listened to episode 3 of the Musicuentos Black Box Podcast, you heard all about the first two parts on Daniel Pink’s book on influencing others, To Sell Is Human, including why all of us (and especially those of us in education) are in sales now, and what we should be in order to effectively […]
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May 3, 2014
Could it be that as a teacher, you actually work in sales? Daniel Pink says the answer is yes in his latest book, To Sell Is Human, the topic of both Musicuentos Black Box Podcasts this month. In part 1, I’ll walk you through why Pink says everyone works in sales now, and the three characteristics you […]
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April 15, 2014
What is circumlocution? Can it be taught? Should you teach it? When? If novices shouldn’t be required to produce language, should we teach them circumlocution as a tool to solve communication problems? All of these questions are addressed in this second episode of the Musicuentos Black Box Podcast. I had a real light-bulb moment working […]
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