Webinar
The Tipping
Point
10 Ideas for
using Technology
in language
courses
Pete Sharma
November 2012
Sheffield
‘Steel City’
Director of training at PSA
EAP lecturer
Reviewer
Learning Technologies SIG
Overview
10 Teaching ideas
– Technology affordances
– Pedagogy
– Practical idea
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The Tipping point
The Tipping point
Technology
Affordances
Pedagogy
Value to
language
learning
Idea
Language teaching
Practical ideas
– part one
Prezi / Wiki / IWB / Voting devices / Toggling
Prezi
Prezi
TECHNOLOGY
Zoom in and out
Non-linear option
PEDAGOGY
Driven by the real world
Encourage creativity
www.prezi.com
IDEA
Planning / A3
Complex topic - environment / culture
Wiki
Writing course
Falling numbers
Class wiki
TECHNOLOGY
What? Editable website
Allows multiple authorship
Wiki
PEDAGOGY
A & B – writing an essay
Time + distance
History button – process writing
IDEA
Refutation
“Pros and cons of censorship”
Interactive whiteboards
Do you teach
with an
Interactive
whiteboard?
Mimio
E-beam
TECHNOLOGY
Dual users
IWB
IDEA
Handwriting recognition software
“Beat the tool”
PEDAGOGY
Memorable presentation
Better review
Saveability
Kinesthetic students
Learner
voting
devices
Learner voting devices
PEDAGOGY
TECHNOLOGY
different outcomes with
anonymous voting
12
10
8
6
surprise element
Series2
4
2
debate
0
1
2
3
4
5
IDEA
Controversial issues
Toggle
Digital blank canvas
Toggling
TECHNOLOGY
Active book
Teachers’ Area
Digital blank canvas
Customise
IDEA
Create a parallel, customised course
PEDAGOGY
unite power of
publisher-produced software
Personalisation
New Inside Out Digital
Heads up
Vaughan Jones
End of
part one
Prezi / Wiki / IWB / Voting devices / Toggling
Practical ideas
– part two
IELTs / Dictionary app / Dragon / Sounds / QR codes
Task
• Do you have a Smartphone?
What about your students?
Apps – some useful distinctions
• Different operating systems
– e.g Android / Apple IOS
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•
•
•
Classroom vs ‘On the move’ (Hockley)
Authentic vs ELT
Free vs cost
Free-standing – Internet essential
IELTS
Reading
IELTS app
TECHNOLOGY
Affordance Disappearing text
PEDAGOGY
Motivating!
Autonomous
IDEA
Demonstrate - learning to learn
Dictionary apps
Word frequency
TECHNOLOGY
PEDAGOGY
Dictionary apps
Frequency
*** 2500
** 5000
*7,500
Black
Productive vs
receptive
IDEA
Select five words from different categories
Word frequency
Interactive
phonemic charts
ELT J (2012) 66 (3): 407-409
Sounds
PEDAGOGY
Learner autonomy
TECHNOLOGY
Pronunciation app
Pron practice
done ‘privately’
IDEA
Lesson monitor sheet
Dragon – naturally speaking
Dragon – speaking naturally
TECHNOLOGY
Speech-to-text
app
PEDAGOGY
We speak faster
than we write
Can create a
willingness
to practise
IDEA
Student drafts writing through speaking
QR codes
QR codes
TECHNOLOGY
Quick Response code
Scannable barcode
‘Digital destination’
e.g. Website
Text
Power Point
PEDAGOGY
Motivating
‘Digital paper!’
IDEA
Treasure hunt
End of
part two
IELTs / Dictionary app / Dragon / Sounds / QR codes
Q&A
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Webinar
The Tipping
Point
10 Ideas for
using Technology in
language courses
www.psa.eu.com
Pete Sharma
November 2012