ESLA Issue 2: The Importance of Education

This issue focuses on how education is important for everything from dentistry, the economy and engineering. We also examined effective educational approaches, like online instruction and focusing more on hand's on learning over lecture and study based classrooms.

We hope you enjoy this latest issue of ESLA. The links to student blogs are below. And, as always, if you have questions or comments, ask them below or contact me at vincent.adams.esl@gmail.com

The second issue of ESLA Magazine focuses on education. Fitting, given that we are a school and this is a school project. But this topic is relevant for us because 1) everyone receives some sort of education, and 2) it is vital to the growth of all societies and all of man/womankind. 

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Like the previous issue, our goal was to analyze the causes and effects and then, after this analysis, offer a solution to the problem. Each student blog offers 1) an introductory video, 2) a cause and effect analysis article, 3) an annotated bibliography and 4) essential vocabulary for their topic. 

Cordially, 

~Vincent Adams, ESL Specialist

FEATURES 

Using Education to Prepare for Natural Disasters

by Caroline Da Costa

Exploring the Benefits of Education Management

by Walaa Bu Naiyan

Using Technology to Enhance Science Classes

by Abdelrahma Aljassar

Planning and Managing Projects Better

by Yuri Caval Lima 

Learning by Doing in STEM fields

by Diego Do Nascimento

Manufactoring a New Industry in China

by He Xu

Learning How to Teach Kuwaiti Dentists

by Layla Almubarak 

Failing Environmental Education in S.Korea

by Sungnam Park

Improving infrastructure Using Technology

by Abdelrahma Alsulaiti

Helping Education through Online Learning

by Thamer Alamoudi

Increasing Financial Literacy 

by Yanan Zhang

ESLA Special Report: Bioethics

For the Fall I term at the ESL Academy, students studied the Bioethics, which examines how advances in biology and medicine affect us as individuals and as a society. 

Below the jump are student essays that cover a myriad of topics -- everything from cloning, fertility drugs and how to handle the AIDS and Ebola crises in Africa. 

We hope you enjoy this SPECIAL REPORT, and, as always, let us know what you think.

Cordially, 

~Vincent Adams, ESL Specialist

ESSAYS BELOW THE JUMP

Welcome to the first issue of ESLA Magazine. This is a class project for students at the ESL Academy at the University of Colorado Denver.

For seven weeks we explored the idea of how innovation can help enhance the lives of people. Each writer researched a topic under this theme and related it to his or her field of study. The goal was to enhance our language skills while creating authentic texts for real audiences, and we also hoped to gain an in-depth understanding of a narrowed topic to improve our communication skills.

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Our rhetorical aim was to analyze the causes and effects of innovation for our chosen topic, and then provide an assessment using our analysis to validate our opinions. Innovation, for us, implies positive progress, though there are certainly concerns for what effects unexamined change has on a society.

For this project, we explored everything from how technology can affect learning and business, to the effects innovation has on architecture, urban development and the environment.

Browse the links below for individual portfolios. These include an introduction video, a list of annotated resources, key vocabulary and an in-depth research essay.

We appreciate your time and readership and welcome any feedback you may have.

Thank you!
~Vincent Adams, ESL Specialist.

FEATURES (below the jump)