Culminating from lessons about beach safety which incorporated VR, students from Navitas English Bankstown visited Tamarama Beach to experience things firsthand.
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Making Connections: Global Student Technology Survey
The 2018 Navitas Student Technology Survey report provides our first global view of student behaviours and attitudes towards using technology in learning.
Strategy Sessions: Sharing best practice across the Navitas network
This Strategy Sessions series gave teaching staff the opportunity to share strategies for overcoming challenges experienced in the learning and teaching context. Watch the 11 sessions here.
Motivation and memory: Virtual reality in ESL
Michelle Cowans shares observations for improved student engagement and motivation using the VR technology ‘Expeditions’ in her adult ESL classroom.
MeetELT ‘Take it off…the page!’: Activities to lift students out of the textbook
The meetELT ‘Take it off…the page!’ event in Melbourne gathered some great ideas to motivate students in their learning.
Creating student communities beyond the classroom
Athanassia Iosifidou looks at how schools are engaging adult ESL learners in the community, to understand how they can be supporting students more in their education.
Celebrating accents: Using technologies to build student confidence in pronunciation
Jonathan Brown considers computer-based applications which can complement speaking and listening activities in the classroom.
Building intercultural awareness using the Intercultural Development Inventory
Amanda Johnson-Toala, Executive Director at the University of New Hampshire GSSP, discusses ways to initiate cross-cultural reflection.
The value of developing debating skills in Academic English units
Karen McRae explores debating as a form of assessment that brings together a range of academic and social skills for non-English speaking background students.
Fake news: Identifying, debunking and discussing false narratives with learners
Alyce Hogg provides educators the skills and tools to help students navigate the online sphere effectively to debunk false, misleading and biased content.
3 creative hands-on activities to help students with writing
Lisa Lindquist of Richard Bland College of William and Mary demonstrates how hands-on activities can help students develop their writing skills.
MeetELT ‘Speakeasy’: Overcoming the challenge of teaching speaking
One of the difficult things about teaching speaking is that you can’t see it. MeetELT’s ‘Speakeasy’ event tried to take the intangible nature of speaking and turn it into something a little more practical.
HEA Fellowships: Recognising teaching excellence at Navitas
Nine Navitas staff were recently awarded HEA Fellowships. They join a growing community which now includes 100,000 HEA Fellows from 88 countries.
Quick tips: Making a user-friendly Moodle for Academic English
Dan O’Donohue shares quick tips to make Moodle pages easier to read for students, teachers and administration.
Student Experience Project – Recipes for Success
Robert Daudet and Sharla Reid showcase ‘Navitas NA – Recipes for Success’ – a box of recipe cards with initiatives for improving the student experience throughout the student lifecycle.