Our own erudite Kelly provides us with her evaluation and insights from day 1 of ACTFL. I wish this report were longer – maybe it will be tomorrow!
Ben,
Doubt you were there today. So, ACTFL day one….Carol and Bryce were great! (one other good presentation on brain research, but that’s about it).
The thing that actually struck me was the amount of clutter in most FL classrooms. Most of the presenters are teachers who really care about their students and want to be good teachers, but they just get lost in the clutter!
That’s all for today.
Kelly
My own response is that Kelly’s insight about the clutter is a huge topic. How to justify what is doing the cluttering when it seems obvious that clutter of machines and deveices to get kids to learn runs counter to the simplicity that we know is elemental to real acquisition?
Related: https://benslavic.com/blog/2010/11/22/technology-in-the-service-of-ci/