https://padlet.com/silviabag84/v22gpn4i95mu Learning Diary (Starting on January 15th, 2018) en-us 2018-01-15 16:57:59 UTC 2023-03-28 16:13:13 UTC hello@padlet.com silviabag84 https://padlet.com/silviabag84/v22gpn4i95mu/wish/221491816 Hi! This is going to be  my learning diary for the present journey!
I teach History and Philosophy in Upper Secondary School. This is my first experience with CLIL.
I teach in a Liceo Linguistico (III, IV and V class).]]> 2018-01-15 16:59:58 UTC https://padlet.com/silviabag84/v22gpn4i95mu/wish/221491816 silviabag84 https://padlet.com/silviabag84/v22gpn4i95mu/wish/221511493 According to  my firts experience with CLIL: I had to redefine  my objectives and choose a different  methodology to involve the students in the lessons. 
I.E: not "talk about the text" but "read the text in its original language" and reflect on it: words, ideas,  meaning. ]]> 2018-01-15 18:46:06 UTC https://padlet.com/silviabag84/v22gpn4i95mu/wish/221511493 silviabag84 https://padlet.com/silviabag84/v22gpn4i95mu/wish/222058020 Today I made a lesson on Plato in English. I wasn't programmed, but the students seemed willing to accept the challenge...
We used a video (Youtube) on Plato's  myth of the Cave. It was a video in English, so I decided to continue the lesson using the same language. 
Positive aspects: 
- with English, you have to be both coincise and precise. You have to use exactly the right word and explain things clearly. It was an excellent exercise. What's  more important, the students said the same thing, when asked about their impressions at the end of the lesson: everything was very clear and definite
- I had to focus on the things I consider the  most important, thus questioning the objectives and goals of  my job
- Some students who are often very shy and silent have proved to be  more involved in the lesson than they usually are.
Negative aspects: 
I still think that I can teach philosophy better in italian. But this has been a good experience... I'll have to think about that again. 

I hadn't planned to do this, so I hadn't prepared the lesson (contrary to  my habits). But it was even  more interactive: "don't worry. I'll  make mistakes, we all will; let's just try, ok?". And I had a lot of fun, really.]]> 2018-01-17 13:53:23 UTC https://padlet.com/silviabag84/v22gpn4i95mu/wish/222058020 silviabag84 https://padlet.com/silviabag84/v22gpn4i95mu/wish/222699811 This is a picture taken of one of my first lessons with CLIL. 
On the screen there's the text of the Declaration of independence of the United States. 
I can see faults in this lesson: I talked too much. It was basically a tipically history lesson translated to English. 
The most interesting thing was the critical reading of the text of the Declaration.
My students made some very interesting questions and remarks, that led me to prepare another, more interactive CLIL module.]]> 2018-01-19 08:43:51 UTC https://padlet.com/silviabag84/v22gpn4i95mu/wish/222699811 silviabag84 https://padlet.com/silviabag84/v22gpn4i95mu/wish/222701302 This is a slide taken from the second CLIL module I prepared. 
I decided that I wanted my students to be the real protagonists of the process of learning. 
This is just an example: before offering them numbers and data, I asked them questions, in order to have them reflect on these topics. ]]> 2018-01-19 08:57:42 UTC https://padlet.com/silviabag84/v22gpn4i95mu/wish/222701302 silviabag84 https://padlet.com/silviabag84/v22gpn4i95mu/wish/222702012 Bloom's Taxonomy is a guide. What are my goals? How to achieve them?
I want my students to always be the real protagonists of their learning. So, what so I want them to do? Not just remember things they've been told. That's only the first step: remember, in order to critically reflect, evaluate (by means of analysis) and then produce a personal discussion about what they've learnt.]]> 2018-01-19 09:00:59 UTC https://padlet.com/silviabag84/v22gpn4i95mu/wish/222702012 silviabag84 https://padlet.com/silviabag84/v22gpn4i95mu/wish/222702581 This taxonomy reflects the kind of processes I always aim to when teaching (CLIL and non-CLIL activities). 
I teach Philosophy so I always focus on critical reading and thinking, analysis and organization of ideas and processes.
With CLIL I feel free to experiment. I talk less and I encourage the student's partecipation and critical inquiry.

]]> 2018-01-19 09:04:27 UTC https://padlet.com/silviabag84/v22gpn4i95mu/wish/222702581 silviabag84 https://padlet.com/silviabag84/v22gpn4i95mu/wish/222706849 How to design materials for CLIL in order to activate your students' thinking and language skills. 
An interesting example by Phil Ball. I always need to prepare my own materials, built on the specifical needs of the class I work with. 
CLIL takes a lot of time and effort, but I hope it will be worth it. ]]> 2018-01-19 09:27:30 UTC https://padlet.com/silviabag84/v22gpn4i95mu/wish/222706849 silviabag84 https://padlet.com/silviabag84/v22gpn4i95mu/wish/222855086 After reading and thinking about CLIL; after trying to implement the use of CLIL in my classes, I have got doubts and hopes. 
Doubts: they come from my students. "What if I find Philosophy difficult in my own language? Clil will only make it even more difficult!". 
I recognize this might be right. 
But I think this comes from a partly wrong conception, that CLIL will mean to do the same things, only in English. That would make it harder to follow and understand. 
Hopes: what if CLIL meant a way to re-think teaching, and what I expect from my students? I don't want them to repeat what I said. I want them to reflect and develop their own path to knowledge. Of course studying is the first, important step: understand the lessons and be given materials to think about. But it is the first part: not the goal. 
Working with CLIL and attending this course makes me reflect about how I teach. 
I hope it will prove effective both in CLIL and more traditional lessons. ]]> 2018-01-19 16:43:11 UTC https://padlet.com/silviabag84/v22gpn4i95mu/wish/222855086 silviabag84 https://padlet.com/silviabag84/v22gpn4i95mu/wish/223125004 This sentence has been written on the wall of the classroom by some of my students. I read it almost every day. 
I chose a very "non-technological" picture, but I think of technology only as a means to an end, a very "philosophical" end: critical thinking and intellectual autonomy.


]]> 2018-01-21 17:25:27 UTC https://padlet.com/silviabag84/v22gpn4i95mu/wish/223125004 silviabag84 https://padlet.com/silviabag84/v22gpn4i95mu/wish/223747759 This site contains a variety of resources for Upper secondary Teachers. I have to say, in most cases I need to build my own materials, depending on the level of the class, the needs I see and goals I want to achieve. But these materials have proved effective: most of the time I have to change something (questions, images...), still I get the inspiration for the style and structure of the lesson.]]> 2018-01-23 13:12:09 UTC https://padlet.com/silviabag84/v22gpn4i95mu/wish/223747759 silviabag84 https://padlet.com/silviabag84/v22gpn4i95mu/wish/223750358 This looks like an increbily rich repository of videos about the Cold War!
I am really excited, I have decided to try a CLIL module in one of my classes about the Cold War. And I want to use videos: I think it's interesting for the language, but also for the kind of culture and mentality of the times...
Thank you for this great discovery!

]]> 2018-01-23 13:18:10 UTC https://padlet.com/silviabag84/v22gpn4i95mu/wish/223750358 silviabag84 https://padlet.com/silviabag84/v22gpn4i95mu/wish/224258567 2018-01-24 15:22:26 UTC https://padlet.com/silviabag84/v22gpn4i95mu/wish/224258567 silviabag84 https://padlet.com/silviabag84/v22gpn4i95mu/wish/224259125 2018-01-24 15:23:27 UTC https://padlet.com/silviabag84/v22gpn4i95mu/wish/224259125 silviabag84 https://padlet.com/silviabag84/v22gpn4i95mu/wish/224726535 I use padlet as a way to share and collect information. 
I share notes and handouts, but also links to videos and websites that I think can be interesting. I try to encourage my students to search the web, or papers, looking for news or studies on a topic. 
I also use padlet to share with them my slides and other materials that I use in CLIL lessons. 
Here's a sample of one of my padlets:

]]> 2018-01-25 16:16:19 UTC https://padlet.com/silviabag84/v22gpn4i95mu/wish/224726535 silviabag84 https://padlet.com/silviabag84/v22gpn4i95mu/wish/224738326 In my history lessons I often use videos. In a CLIL lesson dedicated to the topic of discrimination and emancipation of African-American people, I used videos to give my students an idea of the cultural aspects of it. 
This is a link to the song "Strange fruits", by Billie Holiday. We listened to it and read and commented the lyrics.

]]> 2018-01-25 16:34:19 UTC https://padlet.com/silviabag84/v22gpn4i95mu/wish/224738326 silviabag84 https://padlet.com/silviabag84/v22gpn4i95mu/wish/225144707 What I like about CLIL is the chance to use a foreign language to address topics, authors and events that belong to other countries. We can discuss philosophers reading their words; read documents as they were originally written (my students enjoyed the comparison between the Declaration of Independence of the United States and Martin Luther King's famous I have dream speech); listen to videos and historical documents and discuss the cultural climate to give a broader view of events and processes. 
This is a video I proposed to some of my students recently.


]]> 2018-01-26 17:09:06 UTC https://padlet.com/silviabag84/v22gpn4i95mu/wish/225144707 silviabag84 https://padlet.com/silviabag84/v22gpn4i95mu/wish/225352603 I have used Socrative a few times, I like it because I can have feedbacks on what is clear or not for my students. 
Thank you for this webinar, I watched it later but it was very interesting!]]> 2018-01-28 08:33:52 UTC https://padlet.com/silviabag84/v22gpn4i95mu/wish/225352603 silviabag84 https://padlet.com/silviabag84/v22gpn4i95mu/wish/225352999 This is a sample from one of the quizzes I built for a CLIL lesson. 
The task was to read some extracts from Hobbes' original text and answer this questions (working in pairs). 
I got the results live and I could discuss them later with the class. 
I also use Socrative quizzes before taking tests in my classes, as a way to summarize and reflect about knowledge. ]]> 2018-01-28 08:39:44 UTC https://padlet.com/silviabag84/v22gpn4i95mu/wish/225352999 silviabag84 https://padlet.com/silviabag84/v22gpn4i95mu/wish/225354568 The "CLIL part" in my programs is growing, and my padlet is as well :-)]]> 2018-01-28 09:05:36 UTC https://padlet.com/silviabag84/v22gpn4i95mu/wish/225354568 silviabag84 https://padlet.com/silviabag84/v22gpn4i95mu/wish/225398446 I will certainly use this!]]> 2018-01-28 16:26:03 UTC https://padlet.com/silviabag84/v22gpn4i95mu/wish/225398446 silviabag84 https://padlet.com/silviabag84/v22gpn4i95mu/wish/225794339 2018-01-29 18:45:25 UTC https://padlet.com/silviabag84/v22gpn4i95mu/wish/225794339 silviabag84 https://padlet.com/silviabag84/v22gpn4i95mu/wish/226172548 2018-01-30 16:25:54 UTC https://padlet.com/silviabag84/v22gpn4i95mu/wish/226172548 silviabag84 https://padlet.com/silviabag84/v22gpn4i95mu/wish/226179067 This is my first experiment with learning designer. I find it quite useful. I am planning on using it again. ]]> 2018-01-30 16:35:11 UTC https://padlet.com/silviabag84/v22gpn4i95mu/wish/226179067 silviabag84 https://padlet.com/silviabag84/v22gpn4i95mu/wish/226243824 4Cs Mind map (link to the interactive map)]]> 2018-01-30 18:15:07 UTC https://padlet.com/silviabag84/v22gpn4i95mu/wish/226243824 silviabag84 https://padlet.com/silviabag84/v22gpn4i95mu/wish/226244436 2018-01-30 18:15:56 UTC https://padlet.com/silviabag84/v22gpn4i95mu/wish/226244436 silviabag84 https://padlet.com/silviabag84/v22gpn4i95mu/wish/226730002 I wish I knew how to do that!
Seriously speaking... I love Ted Talks, I like watching them and a couple of times I've had classes watching a Ted Talk. 
I really love my job and I feel motivated. Sometimes I must confess, my students don't seem so happy to be at school... and that is sad. I know school can be hard and I do believe hard work is worth it. But when they look distracted or bored, I feel really disappointed. 
To me, CLIL is also this: an attempt at finding ways to motivate students, to make them feel involved and interested... to make them feel that they are growing and doing something worth doing. ]]> 2018-01-31 18:28:35 UTC https://padlet.com/silviabag84/v22gpn4i95mu/wish/226730002 silviabag84 https://padlet.com/silviabag84/v22gpn4i95mu/wish/227185068 Today I had my very first experience with Kahoot!
I used it to review what we had done, at the end of a Logic module: it was a way to lead students to reflect on quite complex exercises while having fun at the same time.
I think they enjoyed it: at the end of the quiz I had prepared they asked for more. 
And it was not "just a game", but an actual exercise. 
I think a tool like this can be pretty useful, especially in the final lessons of a module, to repeat, revise and discuss what we have done together, before facing  the actual test. ]]> 2018-02-01 17:57:05 UTC https://padlet.com/silviabag84/v22gpn4i95mu/wish/227185068 silviabag84 https://padlet.com/silviabag84/v22gpn4i95mu/wish/227189908 Marisa Constantinides' webinar and slides have proved a real inspiration for me. I have to confess that I spend a lot more time reflecting on my teaching strategies and methods than I did before... I keep thinking about my goals and ways and I think of what I should do to make students feel the real protagonists of their learning. 
I have realized that many time I want to "do it all", explain, review, ask and even suggest answers... So I ended up asking myself: why is it so? Do I trust my students? What do I want them to learn: how to repeat stuff, or how to understand and be creative with that same "stuff"? No doubt I want them to grow and become autonomous. Of course this requires a lot of work on my part, and on their part too. But I must learn to trust them: I must help them grow stronger wings; then they will fly. 
Marisa gave me a lot of ideas and suggestions... I can't wait to try some of these tools in my lessons! Thank you very much!]]> 2018-02-01 18:05:10 UTC https://padlet.com/silviabag84/v22gpn4i95mu/wish/227189908 silviabag84 https://padlet.com/silviabag84/v22gpn4i95mu/wish/227775162 Still building my CLIL lessons on the 1929 crisis... the more I search, the more I have fun!]]> 2018-02-03 17:41:25 UTC https://padlet.com/silviabag84/v22gpn4i95mu/wish/227775162 silviabag84 https://padlet.com/silviabag84/v22gpn4i95mu/wish/227822837 Here I found interesting materials for reading and organizing knowledge: they can be used together with explanation, they ask for students' active search and reflection and can be useful to study this period of time. I would also use references to movies and books (such as The Great Gatsby or The Grapes of Wrath)]]> 2018-02-04 08:57:49 UTC https://padlet.com/silviabag84/v22gpn4i95mu/wish/227822837 silviabag84 https://padlet.com/silviabag84/v22gpn4i95mu/wish/227869317 2018-02-04 16:34:12 UTC https://padlet.com/silviabag84/v22gpn4i95mu/wish/227869317 silviabag84 https://padlet.com/silviabag84/v22gpn4i95mu/wish/227880251 2018-02-04 17:45:18 UTC https://padlet.com/silviabag84/v22gpn4i95mu/wish/227880251 silviabag84 https://padlet.com/silviabag84/v22gpn4i95mu/wish/228140994 I have made some changes while preparing and actually doing the lessons with my students.
Here's an updated version of the original design.

]]> 2018-02-05 14:58:07 UTC https://padlet.com/silviabag84/v22gpn4i95mu/wish/228140994 silviabag84 https://padlet.com/silviabag84/v22gpn4i95mu/wish/228203497 TechnoClil is a way to discover a lot of FUNNY tools!
Now I've just discovered Canva...

]]> 2018-02-05 16:31:30 UTC https://padlet.com/silviabag84/v22gpn4i95mu/wish/228203497 silviabag84 https://padlet.com/silviabag84/v22gpn4i95mu/wish/228471018 I've just discovered this and I have already mentioned it to my students. What a great tool! It helps solve a number of problems and doubts... I wish I had known it before!

]]> 2018-02-06 08:26:18 UTC https://padlet.com/silviabag84/v22gpn4i95mu/wish/228471018 silviabag84 https://padlet.com/silviabag84/v22gpn4i95mu/wish/228475972 Incredibly useful reading tool!]]> 2018-02-06 08:45:04 UTC https://padlet.com/silviabag84/v22gpn4i95mu/wish/228475972 silviabag84 https://padlet.com/silviabag84/v22gpn4i95mu/wish/228634319 2018-02-06 15:02:32 UTC https://padlet.com/silviabag84/v22gpn4i95mu/wish/228634319 silviabag84 https://padlet.com/silviabag84/v22gpn4i95mu/wish/228735079 I am still finding out the many things you can do with this tool!
This is a sample quiz, made out of one page of the book I chose for the Extensive Reading Task. I picked a short extract from The Great Gatsby, chapter 3.
I chose this book because it fits perfectly in my lesson plan, and also because Oxford has an edition with audio-book.]]> 2018-02-06 17:27:01 UTC https://padlet.com/silviabag84/v22gpn4i95mu/wish/228735079 silviabag84 https://padlet.com/silviabag84/v22gpn4i95mu/wish/229188100 A picture from a padlet work made by a group of students.]]> 2018-02-07 16:38:50 UTC https://padlet.com/silviabag84/v22gpn4i95mu/wish/229188100 silviabag84 https://padlet.com/silviabag84/v22gpn4i95mu/wish/230342186 My poster (created with Canva)]]> 2018-02-11 10:01:53 UTC https://padlet.com/silviabag84/v22gpn4i95mu/wish/230342186 silviabag84 https://padlet.com/silviabag84/v22gpn4i95mu/wish/231074532 This is the link to the short video I made of a CLIL project I actually realized in a fourth class of Liceo Scientifico. ]]> 2018-02-13 15:12:10 UTC https://padlet.com/silviabag84/v22gpn4i95mu/wish/231074532 silviabag84 https://padlet.com/silviabag84/v22gpn4i95mu/wish/231985268 2018-02-15 16:18:19 UTC https://padlet.com/silviabag84/v22gpn4i95mu/wish/231985268 silviabag84 https://padlet.com/silviabag84/v22gpn4i95mu/wish/232240271 2018-02-16 07:44:02 UTC https://padlet.com/silviabag84/v22gpn4i95mu/wish/232240271 silviabag84 https://padlet.com/silviabag84/v22gpn4i95mu/wish/232605940 The rubric for oral presentation I created with Rubistar. I used some descriptors and just slightly modified them; in other cases, I created new ones that best suited my needs and goals. 
I think assessment is a very delicate part of our job, and I like this tool because it helps me organize my thoughts and focus on what I want and must evaluate.

]]> 2018-02-17 17:26:28 UTC https://padlet.com/silviabag84/v22gpn4i95mu/wish/232605940 silviabag84 https://padlet.com/silviabag84/v22gpn4i95mu/wish/232606800 Until now, I have collected 7 badges! Here's an overview]]> 2018-02-17 17:29:50 UTC https://padlet.com/silviabag84/v22gpn4i95mu/wish/232606800 silviabag84 https://padlet.com/silviabag84/v22gpn4i95mu/wish/232659991 2018-02-18 08:41:47 UTC https://padlet.com/silviabag84/v22gpn4i95mu/wish/232659991 silviabag84 https://padlet.com/silviabag84/v22gpn4i95mu/wish/233004350 2018-02-19 17:49:45 UTC https://padlet.com/silviabag84/v22gpn4i95mu/wish/233004350 silviabag84 https://padlet.com/silviabag84/v22gpn4i95mu/wish/233355463 Techno-CLIL has just finished and I am about to "leave" for a new adventure: E-Twinning!
I hope we will all have fun ]]> 2018-02-20 16:24:33 UTC https://padlet.com/silviabag84/v22gpn4i95mu/wish/233355463 silviabag84 https://padlet.com/silviabag84/v22gpn4i95mu/wish/235013141 I have just been awarded the Super-badge!]]> 2018-02-24 18:42:34 UTC https://padlet.com/silviabag84/v22gpn4i95mu/wish/235013141