Information & Communication Technology
and
Language (Teacher) Education Innovation

Some reflections on developments, challenges and personal experiences
Invited presentation at Nevsehir University, Faculty of Education
Turkey, 2013

Ton Koenraad http://www.koenraad.info
Overview
• ICT developments
• Implications for Teacher Education
• Focus: Introduction of Interactive
Whiteboards
• Use cases for Modern Languages
• Presentation of related EU
projects
Hogeschool Utrecht
University of Applied
Sciences, NL
Faculty of Education
1990 - 2011

MFL methodology, in-service training
e-Projects manager, ICT-Coordinator

2005

2009 / 2013

ICT-e Competences for
prospective teachers
TELLConsult
Innovation in Teacher Ed. to prepare
professionals to teach our next generation

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Web 2.5
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Discussion lists, blogs, wikis, social networking
Chat rooms & VideoConferencing
Virtual Worlds
Podcasting
Social bookmarking
Etc….
Which technologies for which activities?
Instant messenger SYNCHRONOUS
Community platforms
VoIP
Conference rooms
webcam
MUVE
3D Worlds

PEER TO PEER

WEBCAST

folksonomies

Mailing lists

vlogs

foaf

CMS

photoblogs

blogs

email

podcasts

ASYNCHRONOUS

PLE

forums
wikis
Credits: B.Dieu
Open Educational Resources (OER)

LINGUA@NET
Simulations for practice and
assessment of oral skills
Chatterdale
Portfolio & Testing systems
Telecollaboration
Communities of Practice (CoPs)
Personal Learning Network (PLN):
Sharing Interests & Resource Finds
My project experiences:
ICT-Tools, Activity design, Teacher Ed., Research, CoP
E-CLIL

Telecollaboration

LanguageQuest

3D & MFL:

ViTAAL, NIFLAR , EUROVERSITY

Classroom Tech
Interactive Technologies In Language Teaching:
The IWB in the language classroom

EU Project – LLP Programme 2011-2013
Supporting Continuous Professional Development
of VET teachers in the use of Interactive
Whiteboards
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EU-Project Leonardo programme 2011-2013
Classroom technologies. Focus on IWB

Seen them being used?
More info here

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Access:
IWBs are found across Europe at most levels, with
approximately 100 students to each
IWB at all grades.
Vocational & Grade 4
Fatih project
A literature review
Koenraad (2008)
• More chances for interaction, collaboration and
discussion, particularly in comparison with other
ICT-use.
• Attention focus (cinema-effect) enhances
motivation, also because of improved lesson
pace….
• - and this better pace offers more opportunities
for repetition, more detailed explanation & test
preparation.
Lit. review (2)
•  pupils can cope with more complex concepts by

actually handling related objects
• Handling + concurrent thinking aloud supports
verbalising thinking and insight development

• increased chances for learning style matches
thanks to multi-modal and haptic affordances
Koenraad, A.L.M. (2008c). Interactive Whiteboards in educational
practice: the research literature reviewed.
Downnload: elearningEuropa
The TPACK model,
source:
www.tpack.org

Koehler & Mishra (2006)

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Technological Pedagogical Knowledge:
Knowing how ICT affects subject teaching
methodologies

Technological Content Knowledge:
Realising how ICT influences how subject
matter can be acquired.

Pedagogical Content Knowledge:
Know-how about subject specific pedagogy & methodologies
improbability
deconstructiveness
inconsistentcy
Let’s see how an IWB can help when looking at
word formation in EFL
Training
Free Materials

Training Materials
Comenius/Grundtvig Courses
Exploitation

Courses offered in 2013 in …. & ….?

July, week 29, Spain

August, week 33, Portugal

More info here
Thank you for your attention!
Any questions?
Ton Koenraad
www.koenraad.info
TELLConsult
www.tellconsult.eu

Developments on Interaction and Interactivity presented at Nevsehi University, Turkey