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Empowering Language Learners: Critical Approaches to SDGs

  In an increasingly interconnected world, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) offer a powerful framework for addressing global challenges. They provide a shared language for discussing crucial topics like fairness, planetary protection, and equitable access to education. However, in our urgency to integrate them, are we sometimes missing a deeper opportunity? This article proposes moving beyond a superficial "checklist" approach to the SDGs in language teaching, particularly for those in subsidiary language courses who might feel time-constrained. By embracing a more critical and relational pedagogy, we can transform SDG engagement from a managerial task into a truly transformative learning experience, empowering students to become critical thinkers, not just well-behaved global citizens. This approach aligns with calls from post-development thinkers like Arturo Escobar (2018), who urge us to question the "one-size-fits-all" Western idea of progress often em...
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How to embed Yammer in Blackboard


In a new online teaching landscape, it is very important to open up flexible channels of communication so that you can be more present for your students, and so that your students can easily communicate with each other and access peer support, if needed.

There are a number of ways you can achieve a regular connection. Yammer is very good at replicating a social media environment, similar to Facebook, which many students are already used to. So this is one of the tools I am using. As a moderator or course leader, it usually helps to post often. It does not always have to be something very serious. Light-touch humour, and other types of content that link somehow to your subject, without being the usual academic texts, will help to add variety and keep everyone interested.

In order to make Yammer more visible and accessible it is a good idea to embed it into the virtual learning environment you normally work in. In this tutorial, I am going to talk you through how to embed Yammer into Blackboard.










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