Teaching & Learning English
In our seminar on dark tourism, we focused on Chernobyl and used a new format: a role-play inspired by murder mystery games. Instead of a traditional debate, we asked the audience to step into the thoughts of two fictional characters, a serious filmmaker and a viral influencer , to discuss the ethics of visiting tragic … Read more
Dark tourism I was not here the day the dark tourism seminar happened. I was away, this time for a legitimate reason. But I still find this topic quite interesting and I have quite a few points to establish whether or not they have already been thoroughly explored on Thursday. When I first heard … Read more
When Dr.Terrett first told us about the word “dark tourism”, it seems to me as if it is directly related to the hot war battlefields of gunpowder and corpses. Unluckily it’s not, but coincidentally I had experienced tons of dark travels before. The concept of dark travel is when people travel to places which are … Read more
In this seminar, we discussed the quote “When in Rome, do as the Romans do”—whether travelers should adapt to local customs or stay true to their own values. Some people felt that following traditions shows respect, while others believed it’s okay to set boundaries if certain practices conflict with personal beliefs. One example is the … Read more
This seminar is actually a meta reflection for our whole MYP journey that’s sadly about to end 🙁 I really like the questions designed by Tingkai and Thomas, they gave us a chance to ‘talk about how the school could be better run’. The question I like best is’if you could change one policy of … Read more
“When in Rome do as the Romans do” is a pretty old quote that has been going on for decades, and I believe the quote is theoretically correct under the following terms: 1. Local traditions doesn’t violate or goes against your own belief and values You shouldn’t feel forced to do something that clashes with … Read more
This seminar focused on identifying the key elements of a good blog post, like titles, images and writing style. What I found helpful was the way we looked at different examples and discussed them. It made the topic more concrete and I could see how small changes like a clearer title or a more relevant … Read more
(Blame me if u want but this is not a proper reflection, more of my own story) In today’s class me and my classmates discussed about our experiences during middle school in OCAC. I decide to publish this post simply because there’s not enough time in class to let me speak freely. Unlike most students … Read more
In this seminar, tania and I were elected as leaders. Through a scenario in the ppt, we discussed whether we should participate in dark tourism and the influence of the Internet on it. First of all, I think my leader this time is a little better than the last one because I was quite nervous … Read more
Last week, we did a thorough two-day seminar regarding dark tourism during which the seminar leaders guided with a totally unique and extraordinarily effective strategy of revolving the questions around a storyline which gave us very much to discuss and debate, and at length the discussion was quite in-depth. We took Chernobyl as the setting, … Read more
Just yesterday we did a seminar discussion on our whole MYP journey. Looking back, I’ve been staying in ELL for over 2 years. It’s a bit astonishing to know I’ve stayed in this class for so long, and a bit frightening and sad that this is going to end soon… 😭 ELL has a huge … Read more
In this seminar, we mainly discussed elements a good blog includes. This seminar led by Kitty and Vinci was quite unique from the other ones, the main impact to this was their style. Different than the past few seminars which only had questions on their PPT, this one involved comparison between text or pictures. I … Read more