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Will Second Life Help Me Survive In Italy, Carmela Dell'aria, Susanna Nocchi
Will Second Life Help Me Survive In Italy, Carmela Dell'aria, Susanna Nocchi
Conference Papers
This paper aims at sharing the experience we had in the design and implementation of a short pilot course of Italian in Second Life® (SL). The paper will provide a description of the course mentioning preliminary findings, discussed in relation to the theories adopted by the two researchers. The paper is the result of the course, La Lingua in gioco: dire, fare e giocare in SL, that had a strong focus on the development of Intercultural Communicative Competence (ICC) and Oral Language Proficiency and was aimed at a group of third-level Irish students of Italian in the Technological University Dublin …
Do We Teach Disciplines Or Do We Teach Students?—What Difference Does It Make?, Marshall W. Gregory
Do We Teach Disciplines Or Do We Teach Students?—What Difference Does It Make?, Marshall W. Gregory
Marshall W. Gregory
The single most difficult notion for graduate students and new professors to grasp about teaching--and, indeed, many experienced teachers never grasp this point either--is that successful teaching to undergraduates has little to do with the degree of one's mastery of disciplinary knowledge.
Teaching Western Philosophy: An Anti-Authoritarian Approach, James Magrini
Teaching Western Philosophy: An Anti-Authoritarian Approach, James Magrini
Philosophy Scholarship
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Multiple Intelligences In The Gospel Classroom, John Hilton Iii
Multiple Intelligences In The Gospel Classroom, John Hilton Iii
Faculty Publications
In a worldwide training broadcast, Elder W. Rolfe Kerr taught, “We cannot expect our students to learn all that we hope they will learn by just hearing a concept or principle one time. Multiple presentations, utilizing various approaches, often appealing to multiple senses, increase the likelihood of our students actually learning and internalizing the concepts we teach.”