here’s part of our team, celebrating the end of the year. here’s to a great 2007!
Archive for December, 2006
Been looking for a new laptop and still haven’t decided which one to buy, and where. But I did find this article on HOW TO CHOOSE your laptop and thought it would be good to share it here.
Source: bestbuy.com Accessed: Dec 30, 2006
my windshield…broken by Pinochet supporters. Just for for the record.
A world with no war (wish it was just a song)
A country with no discrimination Read the rest of this entry »
TOEFL iBT: la próxima generación y sus cambios
by Mauricio Miraglia, co authored by Maite Exposito.
Published at www.estudiosusa.com / www.usjournal.com
Audience: Students
Estas en una isla con billete de $50 dólares en el bolsillo. Llevas un día entero y necesitas una botella de agua para tu sed. Quieres comprar, sin embargo, en la isla no se usa el dinero… ¿De que te sirve el billete? Podrías quemarlo en la noche para prender una fogata y abrigarte, ¿cierto? Bueno, el sistema del lenguaje es algo así como muchos billetes de dinero. Read the rest of this entry »
graduate studies // Cognition & computers - 2002 by Mauricio Miraglia
A Constructivist Learning Environment Model for the Learning of English as a Foreign Language.
I. Overview
In my previous paper I focused on the teaching of reading for the TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) and how the implementation of diverse knowledge representations could enhance the learning process of reading skills in learners of English as a foreign language. I would like to expand on the context of language learning and present through this paper a first approach to a constructivist design model in the domain of EFL (English as a foreign language). This paper examines seven guidelines on how to build a constructivist learning environment giving theoretical evidence from the bibliography required for Cognition and Computers followed up by examples for application of these guidelines. The paper also suggests a method of assessment for learners as well as an evaluation of the learning environment in terms of how successfully users and the learning environment interact with one another and how this model would facilitate the learning process.
Online instructors’ roles and their impact in the students’ development of professional skills, their understanding, and construction of knowledge within a problem-solving and collaborative approach to learning. By Mauricio Miraglia - 2002