nothing virtual about it - successful teaching and learning in 3d worlds
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Virtual Tools & Spaces – IATEFL 2009
Nothing virtual about it: Successful language learning
in 3D worlds
Paul Sweeneypaul@eduworlds.org
Seeing is believing
Video (Machinima) 1: Excerpts from Upper Intermediate (CEF B2) Travel module. (Greeting class, setting up activity for individual student and activity feedback. Introduction to actor characters)
Video (Machinima 2): Excerpts from Intermediate and Upper Intermediate (CEF B1 & B2) writing module. (Task introduction, instruction giving, pairwork, task discussion. Student meeting in city café)
Pedagogy: what's happening?
• highly realistic & relevant contexts
•Direct learning & learning as a byproduct
• Activates sociolinguistic aspect• interaction with teachers,
actors, native speakers & other learners
• Real & meaningful experiences mediated through English
Functional
Task based
Communica
tive
Simulatio
n
Learner communityCompetency based (Common European
Framework)
Role play
1890..
1940..
1960..
1980..
2000..
John Dewey
Jean Piaget
Lev Vygotsky
Jerome Bruner
Paulo Freire Gordon Pask
Terry Winograd
Seymour Papert
Lauren Resnick
John Seely Brown
Ference Marton
Roger Säljö
John Biggs
Jean Lave
commonconceptionof the learningprocess
Inquiry-based education
Constructivism
Mediated learning
Discovery learning
Learning as problematization
Learning as conversation
Problem-based learning
Reflective practice
Meta-cognition
Experiential learning
Learner-oriented approach
Social constructivism
Situated learning
Theorists agree: Learning as doing (Diana Laurillard – 2008)
A conversational framework (Diana Laurillard – 2008)
Teacher’s ideas
Learner’s ideas
Practice environment
Learner’s practice
Actions
Adapt actions
Task goal
Reflect
Feedback
Practice environment
Other learner(s)
Ideas
Ideas
Reflect
Other learner(s)
Adapt actions
Draft outputs
Draft outputs
Concepts Answers
Reflect
QuestionsOutputs
Instructivism + Constructionism + Social learning + Collaborative
Misc references
Rethinking pedagogy for a digital age: designing and delivering e-learning
Helen Beetham, Rhona Sharpe, Routledge, 2007
ISBN 0415408741, 9780415408745
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ix2I9H0qHu4C
Rethinking university teaching:
a conversational framework for the effective use of learning technologies
By Diana Laurillard, 2nd Ed. Routledge, 2002
ISBN 0415256798, 9780415256797
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=99eQakJyAj4C
Diana Laurillard – inaugural presentation for London Knowledge Lab http://www.lkl.ac.uk/cms/files/jce/presentations/laurillard-inaugural-20080226.ppt available from here http://www.lkl.ac.uk/cms/index.php?option=com_comprofiler&task=userProfile&user=127
http://edutechwiki.unige.ch/en/Laurillard_conversational_framework
Contact me
paul@eduworlds.org - http://www.eduworlds.org
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