CUNY Academic Commons

A bud – working on getting all students on board with the tool and contributing to the collection of language objectives

The relationship that teachers and teacher candidates have with technology has always been “a love-hate”, we have all been there. We found ourselves in awe of how great and efficient technology can be (using zoom, peardeck, nearpod, flipp grid etc.) opened our students’ voices and minds, but we also noticed how all this has shut them down…( wifi n…[Read more]

Dr. Betinna Love, Dr. Gholdy Muhammad,  Sharroky Hollie, Zaretta Hammond and Vygotsky’s work is so clearly visible in Equitable CITE pedagogy guidelines.  I am siding with the goal of Promote joyful, meaningful learning,  the statement “Joy and meaning can emerge in learning as students sustain flow states in their “zone of proximal developm…[Read more]

I decided to show you how I assemble my outfits for the jazz age lawn party. I think the processes we go through daily reveal a lot about our learning/ working styles. Think about the way you cook, plan you trips, food shop and assemble your outfits for the next day? Does your brain tend to work in a similar way doing these daily activities. I…[Read more]

Here is my slide, I decided to use this activity as an ice-breaker with multilingual students in mind. Students will use all 4 modalities (listening, speaking, reading and writing) to interact with each other and find out about each other’s…[Read more]

Hello, I am Dominika McPartland, I am an adjunct lecturer in a TESOL department. Looking forward to meeting everyone and learning about tools that can support our teachers in developing fun and engaging lessons.

Dominika McPartland (she/her) TESOL Hunter College

I somehow ended up with the 30s – after careful review (no, I didn’t follow the rules).

33,35,36,37,38 – They all spoke about collaboration in the digital age in order to facilitate inquiry, research, build communities, sustain cultural and linguistic practices. I see computational thinking as…[Read more]