Выступление на международной конференции «Иностранные языки сегодня-2010: тенденции и перспективы развития в России»

Сургутский государственный университет ХМАО-Югры. 29 ноября – 1 декабря 2010 г.

 Introduction

“Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember

from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”

Oscar Wilde

What is going on at our schools? We are feeding our students with the knowledge they are not hungry of. So what do we hear in return? “We don’t want!” And it’s natural.

Dear colleagues, just a few years ago I came across an educational technology, known as knowledge building workshop and I was shocked to learn that teachers in   Europe had been experimenting with the “classroom -as -workshop idea” for over the past twenty-five years already and we knew nothing about it, and most of the teachers still don’t. To my mind it simply happens because instead of teaching English, teachers continue studying textbooks with their students. So there is no need or time for investigating new things. I’m going to speak about what I’ve acquired while creating workshop atmosphere in class, and, as an example, present the workshop conducted on the theme “Pros and cons of modern inventions”.

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