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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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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
?
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