This document discusses harnessing educational technology to boost creativity. It covers several topics: 1) Using technology to develop students' social and emotional skills through collaborative activities. 2) Drawing on theories like Vygotsky's zone of proximal development to structure learning experiences that challenge students. 3) Integrating timeless teaching approaches like storytelling, task-based learning, and humanistic language teaching with digital tools to foster creativity.

1. Harnessing
Educational Technology
To Boost

2. Spreading
Your
Wings

3. Contents
1) Big picture teaching the whole person
2) Creative constraints beyond information overload
3) Simple choices enriched learning
4) From artificial control to freedom and empowerment
5) Safe foundations are springboards to creativity
6) Confidence potential
7) Timeless approaches digitalised continuum
8) Social & emotional engagement and creation
9) From print to multi-media
10) Practical examples and ideas

4. Simplify & Enrich
Digital classrooms Chris Lehmann? David Deubelbeiss

5. Harnessing
Educational Technology
To Boost

6. The World Wide Web
Create
Focus
Digital
Literacies
Foundations
Dudeney,
Hockly,
Pegrum
Responsibility
Safety:
Sophia Mavridi

7. Teacher Confidence
Timeless
Approaches Creativity
Action Research
Adapting Letting go
Foundations
Digital Literacies Student Safety
3
2
1

8. Student Confidence
Creative Thinking
Approaches Activities
Critical Thinking
Expressing Collaborating
Foundations
Emotional Intelligence Social Intelligence
3
2
1

9. Confidence in potential
Students
Teacher
Vygotsky
“Pedagogy must be oriented not to the yesterday,
but to the tomorrow of the child’s development.
Only then can it call to life in the process of education
those processes of development which now lie in the zone of proximal
development”
(Vygotsky, 1993, pp. 251-252).

10. The Zone Of Proximal Development
“What we call the zone of proximal
development is….the distance between the
actual development level as determined by
independent problem solving, and the level of
potential development as determined through
problem solving under guidance or in
collaboration with more capable peers.”
(Vygotsky, 1978, p.86)

11. Actual developmental level

12. Potential development
?

13. Collaboration with more capable
peers

14. ZPD – where the magic happens
Your
comfort
zone
Where the
magic
happens

15. Harnessing
Educational Technology
To Boost

16. Timeless Creativity
Dogme
Zone Of
Proximal
Development
Social &
emotional
learning
Task-centred
learning
Humanistic
language
teaching

17. Timeless Creativity
Thornbury
&
Meddings
Zone Of
Proximal
Development
Daniel
Goleman
Penny Ur
Rinvolucri,
Prodromou

18. Timeless Creativity
Blank
Canvas
Zone Of
Proximal
Development
Social learning
skills
Games &
simulations
Digital
Storytelling

19. Social
learning
Zone Of
Proximal
Development
Social
learning
Social
learning
Social
learning

20. Embrace
Image credit:Martin laBar
The continuum…..

21. Integrate
Image credit:Martin laBar
& go beyond…..

22. Integrate….

23. Go beyond…..
Interview with Nik Peachey

24. Dogme
Scott Thornbury & Luke meddings
(2009)
Materials light
Interactive Dialogic
Engaging
Voice Power
Emergent
Conversation Driven

25. Blank Canvas

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Story-boarding
tools

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Interactive
posters

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Video-making
tools

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Multi-media
Mash-ups

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Infographics

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Mindmaps

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Blogs

34. Blank Canvas
**emergent**
Linguistic
Creativity
‘Emergent’: Teaching unplugged

35. Harnessing
Educational Technology
To Boost

36. The Function of SEL
Being emotionally and socially tuned into the learning process
is probably the most infuential driving force behind learning.
It drives motivation, peer-to-peer learning, and most
importantly, gives students the most important thing they
need – self-belief.
• Social learning examples with technology
Curation, micro-blogging,
This self-belief increases exponentially when teacher-belief
is prominent. It withers into self-defeat when
teacher-belief is absent.
Trusting our students with creativity, content-creation &
self- organising via digital learning missions shows them how
much we believe in their potential.
Edutopia
Psychology & ELT Teacher belief and motivation

37. The Triple Focus
• Inner – purpose, focus
• Other – social, empathy
• Outer – complexity, systems
• Daniel Goleman & Peter Senge

39. Social & Emotional Learning
Emotional
intelligence is the ability
to monitor one's own and
other people's emotions, to
discriminate between
different emotions and
label them appropriately,
and to use emotional
information to guide
thinking and behavior
Q & A with Daniel Goleman/Edutopia

40. Social & Emotional Learning
Social intelligence is
the capacity to effectively
negotiate complex social
relationships and
environments and manage
complex social change.
The original Mr. Spock, Leonard Nimoy, demonstrating the Vulcan salute

41. Social learning increases creativity &
vice versa

42. Social Units Transform Ourselves & Our
Environments
“
In play a child always behaves beyond
his average age, above his daily
behaviour;
in play it is as though he were a head
taller than himself.”
(Vygotsky, 1978, p.102)

43. Task-based learning
Augmented
reality
Gaming
Simulations

44. Humanism & Creativity
Examples from lit & the arts
• Storytelling & literature
• Redesign & multi-media
Student-centred
• Self-expression, emotion, memory
• New departures in Higher order thinking Personalised
• Collaborative storytelling
• Digitalised social learning environments Co-operative
Beyond the arts – Content and language integrated learning

45. “Storytelling is the language teacher’s oldest
technique “
Mario Rinvolucri

46. It’s better to
give than to
receive…
Better to
create than
consume ..
By sharing &
creating our
own stories we
are creating our
own learning
cultures &
myths..

47. Visual
Literacy
Video &
Animation
Blogs
Comics
ebooks
Visual literacy image copyright: drawing by Magdolna Terray & poem By Rakesh Bhanot

48. Exams Business Academic
For all kinds of teaching niches and specialisations

50. Power Of Creative
Contraints one
In certain types of poetry
constraints
can unleash further creativity.
Constraints force focus & then
provide a chink
through which ideas shoot out like
a laser beam.”
Like when a magnifying glass
captures and
intensifies the rays of the sun and
creates fire.
Acrostic poem
F-ocused
I-nsights
R-oar
E-nergy

51. Examples of Digital Storytelling
Creative
constraints 2

53. The Power of Visual Literacy

54. Comics

61. Animation
Go animate Go animate for schools

62. Visual literacy
Poetry by Rakesh Bhanot Images by Magdolna Terray

63. Mindmapping

64. Business English & Interactive
Posters

65. Infographics

66. The Workshop
Transform your coursebook before it transforms you
1) Brain-storming & mindmapping.
2) Transforming 5 types of lesson content into digital media.
( a past exam paper, a typical coursebook exercise, a visual poem, a song, a
story)
3) Planning project work for students.
4) Showcasing work, & choosing an online platform on which to
publish the new content.
(public or private)

67. Dedicated Virtual Library
Resources for webinar and workshop Digital Ireland Nov.
2014
Slidehow online
Read Timeless
Teaching eBooklet
Timeless Teaching
Ebooklet for
download

68. Special thanks to ELT Ireland
Special thanks to:
Paul Sweeney Dr Lou McLaughlin Christine Mullaney
Sophia Mavridi
Peter Lahiff John Whipple