Techno Tosh Teaching

I’m supposed to be teaching a “Technology English” course at the moment. Pilot programme for a new English for Special Purposes policy which is a really stupid idea with students who can’t write sentences, and was unanimously protested by the foreign teachers, but is predictably unstoppable.

Judging by the mandatory textbook (which I’m not using) the school want it to be mindless IT buzzword recitation. This would admittedly. in my experience, produce typical IT managers.

Buggered if I’m doing that.

Last week I had one member from each of 5 groups being the piston in a Audi 5-cylinder in-line engine with an animation on the OHP. (Bang! Blow!, Suck!, Squeeze!) with points for rythm and accuracy. (see the invisible link below - oh, you cant. Shouldn’t have buggered-up the platform then, should you?)

They hated it, but the rest of the class seemed to quite like it. Much smartphone videoing.

Education by victimisation. Sacrifice the one for the benefit of the many.

Might be a new educational principle…