Plenary

And the walls came tumbling down….
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBE5UIlOHdU

“this machine will save my life, I'll never work again, cos this machine will do everything even the creative input stuff…..which doesn't happen…..and the first thing you do if you have technojoy is you get the instructions and throw them out the window!”

Go!
http://clear-concepts.in/blog/?p=60

Go!
http://edition.tefl.net/articles/interviews/graham-stanley/

“Are we afraid of technology or change?
– we constantly ask our students to change”
Maria Ines Cordoba
I teach therefore you learn or do you….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AWYIit1uNk

“We become boring along side the use of technology”
From Ben Goldstein’s ‘Technology what difference has it made?’
…it causes a huge change from our traditional practice..it forces us to change what we have been doing for years.
Maria Ines Cordoba - Technology in the classroom a first class help or burden

And the walls came tumbling down….
The one thing that hasn’t changed much at all is the classroom
Michael Carrier - Innovation and technology in ELT…

“.. where does that leave us and the traditional classroom?”
From Ben Goldstein’s ‘Technology what difference has it made?’

Research finds people are adapting ability to remember because of power of search engines to remember for them
In short, people no longer always need to know stuff; they just need to know where it can be found
Sparrow concludes that the internet has become "an external memory source that we can access at any time" – an arena where information is stored collectively outside ourselves
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/jul/15/poor-memory-blame-google

So how are the walls tumbling down?

- Can speak English
- Can speak English

At the 1990 conference… most papers (88.37%) focused on some aspect of teaching conditions...more than 50% focused on some aspect specifically related to teaching (e.g. syllabus, evaluation, testing) while only 11.63% of the papers were about learning, and none discussed the outcomes of the teaching/learning process
http://www.ufsm.br/labler/publi/EFL.htm.

Role of the teacher

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MpzcjhY_wI

http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-build-a-brick-wall-2

Lack of training
School enforcing with no clear policy
The haves and the have nots
The role of error
The role of testing and assessment
E-safety
Digital literacy
The copy and paste approach
STOP worrying about the ‘tool’ it’s the task that’s important.

Information exchange

Homework

Golden Rules of Homework
useful
relevant, interesting and varied.
different ability/learning style groups.
manageable in terms of time
no need to focus on a written product.
students can contribute ideas and design their own tasks.
challenging but achievable.
find out time, preferences, resources
consolidate classwork, it should not replicate it.
tasks which are nearer to real life use of language

Learner Autonomy

‘It’s not about dazzling the students, but about giving them more opportunities to learn and explore on their own’
Raquel Oliveira – Cultweeple- enhancing interaction and collaboration among EFL learners.

What’s the difference between….?
homework
self study
learner autonomy

Why?
Confidence
Exams
Goals
Time
Different students
Teacher not with students

Learning Styles – learning mirroring life

http://fun-class.blogspot.com/

http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/blogs/shelly-terrell/
learning-beyond-walls-wikis-skype-global-projects-guest-post

The world’s changed for the teacher as well

www.oup.com/elt

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-566719/Why-ostriches-DONT-bury-heads-sand--surprising-truths-great-animal-myths.html

Teachers need to get students creating through their own intelligence and less by rote and design.
Allow students the independence they need to arrive at the knowledge in their own way.
http://ddeubel.edublogs.org/2011/01/19/interview-with-myself/

Vicky Samuel – Web 2.0 Project based learning

http://www.hoopla.ws/graphics/Best_of_the_World/

http://vyou.com/

Thanks for listening
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