Part three: Five controversies Will course books disappear? Should schools buy an IWB? Should students have mobiles on in class? Should courses be supported with VLE’s? Should teachers use YouTube in their lessons?
Part four: Eight practical teaching ideas Grammar Vocabulary Skills – Listening & reading Speaking & writing Phonology Games
Infinite clone tool Right or wrong? “I am born in Poona” “I have seen Mark yesterday” “I am in London for two days” “If I will see James, I will give him the message” Grammar
Vocabulary – Wordle Listening Reading Speaking Voting devices Writing wiki
Phonology / Games
New technologies – new pedagogies? New ‘digital’ approach Principles – role of teacher vs role of the technology Blended learning – very few examples of ‘good practice’
New technologies – new pedagogies? Successful Blended Learning involves: integration appropriacy
New technologies – new pedagogies? Beyond the ‘wow’ factor Pedagogy, pedagogy, pedagogy No ‘magic bullet’ Digital divide – attitude Technology can be inexpensive & liberating
‘Established’ vs ‘experimental’ Two years..... False dawns and red herrings Part five: Focus on the future
Trends... (Byron Russell) 1.The demise of established digital delivery methods 2.The coming of the Cloud 3.Teacher power 4.From content to “microcontent” 5.New stuff coming out of left field...
1. The demise of established digital delivery methods the rise of the tablet (iPad, Samsung Galaxy Tab) & the touch-screen IWB the death of the CDR / DVDR as more goes online
Everything will be online and use cloud computing services. No more patches, downloads, DVD-Rs etc. Your work’s in the cloud, too! 2. Heading for the Cloud
3. Teacher as author......and Publisher
Easy-to-use, template-driven authoring tools...& rise of peer-created content Increasing use of web-based LMS and community services Increasing willingness of teachers to PAY (e-comm) for content / services How will this happen?
4. Content to Microcontent Workbooks and Coursebooks will lose their linear structure as courses become more bespoke, more fluid
e-workbooks and the bespoke e-coursebook Korean and US digital text book initiatives The digital classroom Location-based learning
5. New stuff coming out of left field...
Overview (1) Innovations (2) Critical analysis (3) Controversies (4) Practical ideas (5) Focus on the future