harnessing educational technology to boost confidence, creativity and social intelligence

HarnessingEducational Technology

To Boost

SpreadingYour

Wings

1) Big picture teaching the whole person

2) Creative constraints beyond information overload

3) Simple choices enriched learning

4) From artificial control to freedom and empowerment

5) Safe foundations are springboards to creativity

6) Confidence potential

7) Timeless approaches digitalised continuum

8) Social & emotional engagement and creation

9) From print to multi-media

10) Practical examples and ideas

Contents

Simplify & Enrich

Digital classrooms Chris Lehmann? David Deubelbeiss

HarnessingEducational Technology

To Boost

The World Wide Web

Create

Focus

Digital

Literacies

Foundations

Dudeney, Hockly, Pegrum

Responsibility

Safety:

Sophia Mavridi

Teacher Confidence

Foundations

Digital Literacies Student Safety

Action Research

Adapting Letting go

TimelessApproaches Creativity

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3

Student Confidence

Foundations

Emotional Intelligence Social Intelligence

Critical Thinking

Expressing Collaborating

Creative ThinkingApproaches Activities

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Students

Vygotsky

Teacher

Confidence in potential

“Pedagogy must be oriented not to the yesterday,but to the tomorrow of the child’s development.

Only then can it call to life in the process of educationthose processes of development which now lie in the zone of proximal

development”(Vygotsky, 1993, pp. 251-252).

The Zone Of Proximal Development

“What we call the zone of proximal development is….the distance between the actual development level as determined by

independent problem solving, and the level of potential development as determined through

problem solving under guidance or in collaboration with more capable peers.”

(Vygotsky, 1978, p.86)

Actual developmental level

Potential development

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Collaboration with more capable peers

ZPD – where the magic happens

Your comfort

zone

Where the magic

happens

HarnessingEducational Technology

To Boost

Zone Of Proximal

Development

Dogme

Social & emotional learning

Task-centredlearning

Humanistic language teaching

Timeless Creativity

Zone Of Proximal

Development

Thornbury&

Meddings

Daniel

Goleman

Penny Ur

Rinvolucri,

Prodromou

Timeless Creativity

Zone Of Proximal

Development

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Social learning skills

Games & simulations

Digital Storytelling

Timeless Creativity

Zone Of Proximal

Development

Social

learning

Social

learning

Social

learning

Sociallearning

Embrace

The continuum…..

Image credit:Martin laBar

Integrate

& go beyond…..

Image credit:Martin laBar

Integrate….

Go beyond…..

Interview with Nik Peachey

DogmeScott Thornbury & Luke meddings

(2009)

Emergent

Conversation Driven

Engaging

Voice Power

Materials light

Interactive Dialogic

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Story-boarding tools

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Interactiveposters

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Video-makingtools

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Multi-mediaMash-ups

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Infographics

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Mindmaps

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Blogs

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**emergent**Linguistic

Creativity

‘Emergent’: Teaching unplugged

HarnessingEducational Technology

To Boost

The Function of SEL

• Social learning examples with technology

Curation, micro-blogging,

Edutopia

Being emotionally and socially tuned into the learning process is probably the most infuential driving force behind learning. It drives motivation, peer-to-peer learning, and most importantly, gives students the most important thing they

need – self-belief.

This self-belief increases exponentially when teacher-belief

is prominent. It withers into self-defeat when

teacher-belief is absent.

Trusting our students with creativity, content-creation & self- organising via digital learning missions shows them how much we believe in their potential.

Psychology & ELT Teacher belief and motivation

The Triple Focus

• Inner – purpose, focus

• Other – social, empathy

• Outer – complexity, systems

• Daniel Goleman & Peter Senge

Social & Emotional Learning

Emotional intelligence is the ability to monitor one's own and

other people's emotions, to discriminate between

different emotions and label them appropriately,

and to use emotional information to guide thinking and behavior

Q & A with Daniel Goleman/Edutopia

Social & Emotional Learning

Social intelligence is the capacity to effectively negotiate complex social

relationships and environments and manage

complex social change.

The original Mr. Spock, Leonard Nimoy, demonstrating the Vulcan salute

Social learning increases creativity & vice versa

Social Units Transform Ourselves & Our Environments

“In play a child always behaves beyond

his average age, above his daily behaviour;

in play it is as though he were a head taller than himself.”

(Vygotsky, 1978, p.102)

Task-based learning

Augmented reality

Gaming

Simulations

Humanism & CreativityExamples from lit & the arts

• Storytelling & literature

• Redesign & multi-media

Student-centred

• Self-expression, emotion, memory

• New departures in Higher order thinking Personalised

• Collaborative storytelling

• Digitalised social learning environmentsCo-operative

Beyond the arts – Content and language integrated learning

“Storytelling is the language teacher’s oldest technique “

Mario Rinvolucri

It’s better to give than to

receive…

Better to create than consume ..

By sharing & creating our

own stories we are creating our

own learning cultures &

myths..

Visual Literacy

Video &

Animation

Blogs

Comics

ebooks

Visual literacy image copyright: drawing by Magdolna Terray & poem By Rakesh Bhanot

Exams Business Academic

For all kinds of teaching niches and specialisations

Power Of CreativeContraints one

In certain types of poetry constraintscan unleash further creativity.

Constraints force focus & then provide a chinkthrough which ideas shoot out like a laser beam.”

Like when a magnifying glass captures and intensifies the rays of the sun and creates fire.

Acrostic poem

F-ocusedI-nsightsR-oar E-nergy

Examples of Digital Storytelling

Creative constraints 2

The Power of Visual Literacy

Comics

Animation

Go animate Go animate for schools

Visual literacy

Poetry by Rakesh Bhanot Images by Magdolna Terray

Mindmapping

Business English & Interactive Posters

Infographics

The WorkshopTransform your coursebook before it transforms you

1) Brain-storming & mindmapping.

2) Transforming 5 types of lesson content into digital media.

( a past exam paper, a typical coursebook exercise, a visual poem, a song, a story)

3) Planning project work for students.

4) Showcasing work, & choosing an online platform on which to publish the new content.(public or private)

Dedicated Virtual LibraryResources for webinar and workshop Digital Ireland Nov.

2014

Slidehow onlineRead Timeless

Teaching eBooklet

Timeless Teaching Ebooklet for

download

Special thanks to ELT Ireland

Special thanks to:

Sophia Mavridi

Paul Sweeney Dr Lou McLaughlin Christine Mullaney

Peter Lahiff John Whipple