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teacherdevelopment I'm listening! I'm listening!

Great article.... I'm considering the tone to take in writing up my experience. I had a few "issues" which lead me on to broader concerns....

Alex Case And, continuing this conversation with myself (it's like visiting my family...), here is the article

http://edition.tefl.net/ideas/younglearners/xtr...

Alex Case Wrote and used a worksheet with it last week (with young learners) and went much better than my first attempt:

http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/worksheets/yl/chal...

Halfway through writing an article on other possible things to do with it

Thanks again for the link to this site

teacherdevelopment Can't claim full credit for discovery...that chap diamondfingerz (a.k.a. Peter) put me on to it.

diamondfingerz Hi Alex,

Thanks for that short but perceptive comment. I do often feel that it's not possible to do things like I did with that class with groups that have a lower level. But I wonder how much that has to do with my own fear of things going wrong? This is something I've been pondering for other reasons recently, too. We teachers often seem to feel a need to have something to "teach"; we probably think about that far more than we should, meaning that we leave less time to ponder how to simply(?) create opportunities for learning to happen.

darren elliott It`s in there, I guess someone might stumble across it. I don`t know how much of it is of interest to the wider audience... at the moment it`s basically a conversation between Peter and I.

The more the merrier though ; )

Gary Denness That's the most ridiculous reason for banning someone yet. Perhaps we should advertise on Dave's, then threaten to withdraw our support unless he bans Mr K? :)

Gary Denness No can do Alex. I use Disqus' commenting system. The upshot of that is that I do not own, nor does this blog host, the comments. Which is as it should be in my opinion. This is in line with copyright laws on other mediums. I can remove the whole comment from the thread and so make it disappear from view here, but the comment still exists on Disqus. The responsibility for the comments lie solely with Jeremy.

Besides, although I find the whole Black List, and the LCS in general, to be utterly ridiculous, more than one of the combatants have all joined in with email leaking and the such. Seems unfair to not allow Jeremy to defend himself. So I haven't removed any of his posts.

Gary Denness Good post Alex. Thanks for the link.