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New technology: empowering learners, developing teachers

Pete Sharma

Teacher Trainer

Book Reviewer

Director EAP Lecturer Teacher

Consultant

How autonomous are your students?

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New technology: empowering learners, developing teachers

Empowerment

giving learners the power to make their own decisions about learning rather than the teacher having all the control. This opportunity to make decisions is part of what can make a learner more independent, or autonomous.

Aims

• to explore how technology can empower students

• to update teachers on innovations, and encourage critical analysis encourage them to critically analyse these new developments

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Overview

Background

Pedagogy

Technology

Implications

www.petesharma.com

Handout References

.pdfof PPT

Background

Part one

Paradigm shift

Printing

press

http://www.mosesavalon.com/current-post/printing-press/

Digital literacies

• Search

• Txt

• Create a C.V.

• Read on a Kindle

• Create on-line presence

• Give a Prezi

‘Digital Literacies’ [Routledge]

(1) Controversial

Multiple perspectives

Teacher

Student

Trainer

DoS

Director

PublisherAuthor Instructional

Designer

Theory

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Do your

students use

their mobiles

in class?

Communication skills

(2) “CALL is situation specific”

Computer-aided language teaching

T.E.L.L. [technology-enhanced

language learning]

Levy & Stockwell

From: http://www.designdamage.com/

Institutions are at different points…

Innovators

Early adaptors

Early majority

Late majority

Laggard

high-tech

medium

low-tech

no-tech

From: Promethean

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Technology-led

Pedagogy plays

‘catch-up’

(3)Technology changed

language teaching

forever

Corpus linguistics

Macmillan

http://www.lextutor.ca/conc/multi/

(4) Importance

of attitude

www.forbes.com

How much do you know about technology?

How much do you use it?

How do you feel about it?

Knowledge – Skills - Attitude

K S

A3

numbers

[Freeman]http://stocktouch.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/iceberg-poster.jpg

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(5) Importance of pedagogy

What?

So what?

How?

Macmillan Books for Teachers series

Content

knowledge

Technological knowledge

Pedagogical

knowledge

Adapted from: TPACK framework: tpack.org ©2012

TPACK Framework

‘phrasal verb’How to teach

Downside

Cyber-bullying

Plagiarism

Digital divide

Health issues

Pedagogy

Part two

Listening

Reading

Speaking

Writing

Grammar

Vocabulary

Pronunciation

How technology can empower learners Grammar

InteractiveExercises 24 /7

Grammar referencematerials

Source: www.pixabay.com

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Present

Practice

Grammar

Gamification

AppThe Big Picture

Richmond

Vocabulary

Word frequencyStorageReviewDictionary

Vocabulary

Quizlet

Pronunciation

SoundsMacmillan

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Listening

‘Out of class’

Strategy work

Listening

VideoPodcasts +transcript

Longman

Reading

Reading on devices

Accessing information

More genres

Gradedreaders

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ReadingSpeaking

Presentation tools

Voice recognition

Recording

SpeakingWriting

Feedback

Collaboration

Genre

Blogs (Web + log)

Class

Note-taking software

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Technology

Part three

Mobile

learning

“learning that happens when the learner takes

advantage of the learning opportunities offered by

mobile technologies”.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_learning

Vocabulary notebooks

Students move

Devices mobile

Learning experiences which are mobile

(Dudeney, G. & Hockly, N.)

On the moveIn-class

Dimensions

Class-set Own devices

Rich content Discrete content

Hockly, N.

exciting apps

learning

opportunities

distraction

disruptive

New

generation

of

coursebooks

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Innovations

Augmented reality

Adaptive learning

Virtual reality

Exciting developments

www.flashsticks.com

Augmented Reality

Adaptive learning

“...education / training

that utilises technology

and data to provide an

individually customised

learning program to

students that

intelligently adapts to

their learning needs”

(Kerr, P.)

Complete the sentence:

Fariba _________ from Iran to Denmark when she was a child

Oxford English Vocabulary Trainer

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BIG DATA

“Data will be constantly used to track student

performance to learn what’s best for learning”

Virtual Reality

Experimental

CALL

Google voice search

Voice to text

http://www.nuancemobilelife.com/apps/dragon-dictation/

Exciting developments Translation tools

Wearable technologyLifeline

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Robot teachers!

© AFP / Getty Images

R. A. L.L.Implications

Part four

Stakeholders

Implications

Students

Teacher

Trainer

Academic

managers

School

directors

Theory

Teachers

Digital residents

Expectations

Tech-comfy – NOT tech-savvy

Students

• Exposure

• opportunities for (guided) practice

• Motivation

• Focus on form

… need to know what digital learning means, and to develop the confidence to implement it in their courses

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need to understand the dynamics of taking more responsibility for students’ out of class learning experiences

digital teachers can direct students to use different learning materials, learning technologies, smart-phone apps and web resources

What teacher competencies are necessary?

https://thedigitalteacher.com/

Tracking CPD

New technology: empowering learners, developing teachers

Pete Sharma