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WTF? – 3
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3 thoughts on “WTF? – 3”
Hello Ben. I return to the TPRS world and the learning of MVSKOKE from a long hiatus of retiring and. caretaking. I am now teaching a few adult learners who like myself are trying to revitalize themselves and their language acquistion skills during Covid times.
I love adult learners. They are motivated learners. It might offer language teachers a new funding stream online. I don’t know. I don’t zoom as my students are a doctor and her sister we practice safe social distancing.
Just glad to see you online still and looking forward to your thoughts.
Kate Taluga in Dogtown, Florida
Kate my thoughts are many and I’ll write them up in an article. It is thrilling to hear from you after so many years.
I totally agree with what you say about adult learners. They are 100% better. You don’t have to grade them, or hold them in check in class. And now with COVID, the idea of managing kids online is a pipe dream. The futility in the profession with online language instruction is palpable in all teachers, even the great ones like Grant Boulanger and Corinne Bourne. COVID could very well spell the end of language education altogether.
I heard that in our district here in Colorado they want only 1/3 of students in a school building on any given day. That means 2/3 of the time it’s gonna be online. Teachers cannot do that.
However, I am working intensely with a small group of teachers online with Zoom to explore all this. There is success. I will send you the book, my most recent of seven written since I saw you last, that I think (has shown me in our Zoom group) can solve the problem of providing AUDITORY input – since it precedes reading, no small detail that.
But Kate since we last spoke most CI teachers (we don’t even use the term TPRS anymore) have turned our work into a kind of devolved version of what Blaine was doing and what we were all excitedly talking like little kids at summer camp about a decade ago. The sense of connectedness we had then is gone.
You will recognize Circling w Balls as an activity, now under the new name of Card Talk. Look carefully at pp. 8-35 for what that has evolved into. I highly recommend that you use that strategy with your Myskoke students.
What from Jacob in OK?