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

GrammarVocabularySkills – Listening & reading

Speaking & writingPhonologyGames

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 www.ted.com

Reading

Speaking Voting devices

Writing wiki

Phonology / Games

New technologies – new pedagogies?

New ‘digital’ approachPrinciples – role of teacher vs role of the technology

Blended learning – very few examples of ‘good practice’

New technologies – new pedagogies?

Successful Blended Learning involves:

integrationappropriacy

New technologies – new pedagogies?

Beyond the ‘wow’ factorPedagogy, pedagogy, pedagogy

No ‘magic bullet’Digital divide – attitudeTechnology 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

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