Ways to Improve Critical Thinking

Happy National Coffee Day

Teaching & Learning is 7 years today!

Teaching & Learning was born seven years ago on a rainy afternoon, very different from the sunny hot one we enjoyed today! It doesn't seem so long ago, and yet so many things have changed...
We intended to give suggestions of ELT resources and Web 2.0 tools applied to English language teaching, gather some practical examples of students' work and discuss their relevance/success in class context, create an interaction tool with Students/ other Teachers and keep close to Steve Jobs' motto: “Stay hungry. Stay foolish.” as we believe work can be done with pleasure and it can be much better if we don’t forget about enjoying it and adding a pinch of foolishness!
More than 850 posts and 145000 hits later, we believe those objectives are being achieved.
T&L audience is growing every day, it comes mainly from the USA, the UK, Russia and Portugal, but also from the United Arab Emirates, China, Germany, Japan, Brazil, Guatemala, Philippines, Indonesia, Australia and New Zealand. 
THANK YOU for reading T&L, for supporting it and above all for being here! I would also like to thank all those who spend their precious time commenting and giving important feedback!

This whole experience is a pleasure for us, so we intend to keep on going, posting more about didactics, English, culture, students’ tasks, motivational and foolish things, too, of course! 

Credits: As Told By V

We hope to see you all around here a year from now… 

Seven years and counting… STAY HUNGRY. STAY FOOLISH. 

Let's celebrate... HAPPY BIRTHDAY, TEACHING & LEARNING!

What really happened to the Library of Alexandria?

Benefits of Using Portfolios in Education

Credits: Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

How language shapes the way we think

There are about 7,000 languages spoken around the world -- and they all have different sounds, vocabularies and structures. But do they shape the way we think? Cognitive scientist Lera Boroditsky shares examples of language -- from an Aboriginal community in Australia that uses cardinal directions instead of left and right to the multiple words for blue in Russian -- that suggest the answer is a resounding yes. "The beauty of linguistic diversity is that it reveals to us just how ingenious and how flexible the human mind is," Boroditsky says. "Human minds have invented not one cognitive universe, but 7,000."

Welcoming September!

Credits: Anna