Critically Assessing Digital Affordances
Meaningful integration of new digital tools demands a critical eye and reflective practice…
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Plurilingualism: Knowing Students’ Languages
Plurilingual pedagogy is not about knowing all your students’ languages — it’s about valuing them, connecting across them, and creating space…
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Plurilingualism in ‘Monolingual’ Classrooms
Implementing plurilingual pedagogies has gained increasing interest and support in recent decades.
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Exploring and Selecting Descriptors
Descriptors for communicative language activities are organised under four modes: reception; production, interaction and mediation.
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Using CEFR Descriptors in Scenario Design
After the foundation of action-oriented scenarios and backward design, this extended guide will help you put those ideas into practice.
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Backward Design at the Curriculum Level
Backward design focuses on the end point to be reached rather than the pathway to be followed.
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Backward Design in Practice
As suggested in the bite-sized section, the concept of backward design operates at two levels…
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Introduction to Backward Design
Backward design refers to the idea of first defining educational goals/objectives and then working backwards from those objectives
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Creating Your Own Descriptors Selection
Descriptors simplify complex processes to provide practically useful tools to develop transparent objectives.
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Digital Storytelling
Digital storytelling has been defined by Robin (2006) as “the art of telling stories with digital elements including text, graphics, sound, and video”
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