Brent Warner

Jul 18, 2024 | tesol.org | Brent Warner |Betsy Gilliland |Eric Gómez Burgos |Sarah Hodge

For many of us, summer is the time when we have dreams of sitting poolside and reading trashy novels, allowing our brains to reset after another full year of delivering lessons, helping students with their homework, making sure we complete all the testing required by our districts, volunteering on steering committees, and basically anything else that comes our way. Yes, summer is a great time to recharge the batteries, but we all know it doesn’t last forever.

Jan 16, 2024 | tesol.org | Brent Warner

For as long as there’s been language teaching, there have been teachers cutting pictures out of magazines, asking students to draw pictures of their hometowns, taking photos of unique locations, saving CDs full of clipart, downloading photos from the web, and making use of just about every image they can get their hands on. Today, in the AI-enhanced classroom, we can build on all of our favorite picture-based activities and delve even further into creative possibilities.

Dec 17, 2023 | tesol.org | Brent Warner

We all get to that point in the year where we just want something fun and light: a quick activity that can refresh the brain but not be too taxing. For years, the arguments have gone back and forth about whether activities like word searches are pedagogically valuable, and recent literature reviews (like this one from Pioneer and this one from the Journal of Engineering Science and Technology Review) show that students who participate in these activities show improved vocabulary mastery.

Dec 5, 2023 | tesol.org | Brent Warner

The world of AI is moving fast, and it can be hard to feel like we’re keeping up. In my last post, I shared some ways to use the concept of Prompt Engineering to help students build language at the same time as they are prompting. Today, I want to move things back a bit and go for some simple cut-and-paste options you can share with your students.

Oct 16, 2023 | tesol.org | Brent Warner

Whether you’re looking at ChatGPT, Microsoft Bing, Google Bard, or any of the myriad chatbots that are flooding your social media accounts these days, you’re sure to have wondered about how your students might be using these tools in your class.