Professional / Academic Interests
- Teacher Training:
Revisiting the notions of knowledge and learning and how our beliefs
operate in our practice;
- Application
of Hypermedia tools as "mind tools" in the curriculum;
- Application
of diverse models of knowledge representation in ESL/EFL curriculum;
- Introduction
of collaborative tools in the development of instructional programs;
- Hypertext
literacy and co-relations in the processes of language comprehension
and generation;
- Distance
Education for Adult Learners: social contructivist learning environments;
- Telecommunications
and computers: access, use and impact of technology in diverse
educational settings.
Articles
and Stories Published Online
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Related Links
Nova
Language Consultants
A leading school in international exams preparation based in
Santiago de Chile.
Nova
Language Consultants Mini - Sites: Exams
Forum, IELTS,
TOEFL, GMAT,
GRE.
EXSEL:
Excellence in Social and Emotional Learning.
Head
of Project: Sheila Brown, NYC - Dept. of Education
Consultant: Dr. Robin Stern, Teachers College, Columbia University
Councelors: Cristi Riccio and Karen Mildener
Web Developers: Mauricio Miraglia and Angela Peng
Leads on EXSEL:
Chileans
Pursuing Graduate Studies Overseas (Facebook
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Sponsored by
Nova Language Consultants this group gathers together all Chileans
who have obtained a graduate degree abroad and those who are planning
on applying for a school in the USA, UK, Australia, New Zealand,
Europe and Asia.
TESOL
Chile
TESOL
Chile, a professsional association of Teachers of English as a Foreign
Language affiliated to TESOL Inc in the United States, engenders
communities of practice and reflection within the largest Chilean
EFL Teaching community. By means of seminars, workshops, national
and international conferences TESOL Chile aims at improving the
teaching and learning of English as a foreign language in Chile
in and out the classroom K through 12th grade. If you are an English
Teacher in Chile, visit and join! TESOL Chile. There's more information
at their website at www.tesolchile.cl
I happen to be their webmaster and try hard to do my best there.
Transformative
Learning
Transformational
theory in the context of adult learning has been articulated mainly
by Jack Mezirow, and connects with the idea of a change, "a
dramatic fundamental change in the way we see ourselves and the
world in which we live" (Merriam & Caffarella) primarily
from a cognitive learning process. This website shows the work of
our team pulling together to make sense of our own dilemmas.
Graduate
students' work website, Teachers College, Columbia University, webmaster:
Mauricio Miraglia. Team: Kevin Akey, Lydia Andersen, Karen Lundstrem,Vanessa
Urra, and Mauricio Miraglia
Cyber
Activism
Active
Online Citizenship
New
York Times Review ~ Amazon.com
~ Yahoo
Travel ~ more as soon as I find space.
Sernac.cl
is the place to go online / offline when you feel you've been
cheated by a company, retail, individual or corporation in Chile.
It works.
Inspección
del Trabajo. No te dejes abusar. Conversa y Negocia. Resuelve.
Si nada de lo anterior te ayuda... Acusa.
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