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Celebrating 25 years of CALL: Forging new pathways Vance Stevens Former chair and founding member of CALL-IS Petroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi United Arab Emirates March 26, 2009, TESOL Conference, Denver Based on blog posting at http://adVancEducation.blogspotcom/ http://tinyurl.com/callis25years

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25 years ago <ul><li>Fax machine did not exist </li></ul><ul><li>Software schlepped around conference to conference on physical 5 1/4” diskettes </li></ul><ul><li>Information disseminated through newsletters mailed to people who WROTE us snail mail to sign up for them </li></ul><ul><li>Grad students typically composed essays on typewriters, then retyped them </li></ul><ul><li>Teachers used typewriters and mimeograph machines; offered computers, many chose typewriters </li></ul><ul><li>Sharing entailed costs which needed institutional support to bear </li></ul>

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Future as seen 25 years ago <ul><li>Computers seen as passing fads </li></ul><ul><li>Doubters (most people) had to be convinced that there were pedagogical benefits to computers </li></ul><ul><li>Computers seen as devices for algorithmic learning (behavioristic)‏ </li></ul><ul><li>I wrote in favor of humanism in CALL </li></ul><ul><li>Mindset was the read only century; now it's the read-write </li></ul>

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Implications of the Read/Write Century: Paradigm Shift <ul><li>Pedagogy - from didactic TO constructivist </li></ul><ul><li>Networking - from isolated TO connectivist models; e.g. CoPs and distributed learning networks </li></ul><ul><li>Sharing - from copyright TO creative commons </li></ul><ul><li>Literacy – from print dominance TO communication that tends toward multiliteracies </li></ul><ul><li>Heuristics - from client/server TO peer to peer </li></ul><ul><li>Formality – from Trepidation, fear of being exposed as not knowing TO F.U.N. = encourage class to explore despite risk of Frivolous Unanticipated Nonsense </li></ul><ul><li>Transfer – from lecture, sit/get TO modeling, demonstration </li></ul><ul><li>Directionality – from push TO pull e.g. RSS </li></ul><ul><li>Ownership – from proprietary TO open source </li></ul><ul><li>Classification – from taxonomy TO folksonomy </li></ul>

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Who are CALL-IS <ul><li>A group? </li></ul><ul><li>A community? </li></ul><ul><li>A network? </li></ul><ul><li>What is an appropriate metaphor for conference attendance? </li></ul><ul><li>Group? Community? Network? </li></ul><ul><li>Is it ok to cut teachers / students off from their networks? </li></ul><ul><li>At a networked conference </li></ul><ul><li>Who benefits? </li></ul><ul><li>Who loses? </li></ul>

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PD models for Networked Interaction <ul><li>CALL-IS (1984)‏ </li></ul><ul><li>EVO (2001)‏ </li></ul><ul><li>Webheads (1998, 2002)‏ </li></ul><ul><li>Free online conferences </li></ul><ul><ul><li>George Siemens </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>WiAOC </li></ul></ul><ul><li>F2F conferences with rich networking potential </li></ul><ul><ul><li>Learning 2.0 (Jeff Utecht)‏ </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>IATEFL right now, getting better </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>NECC in July </li></ul></ul>

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The future: 25 years from now <ul><li>Hard to imagine, considering ... </li></ul><ul><ul><li>Extent of changes in last 25 years </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Accelerating pace of change </li></ul></ul><ul><li>Social networking via social media is the new CALL; that is ... </li></ul><ul><ul><li>Used and promoted for education by growing number of advocates </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Denied as unhealthy; even dangerous by diminishing few </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Insinuating itself into our culture (Amazon, eBay) and work and social lives (Facebook)‏ </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Relatively untapped potential for learning and education </li></ul></ul>

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Whither CALL-IS? <ul><li>Now that the C in CALL is almost seamless, almost taken for granted, </li></ul><ul><ul><li>social networking is the new front-line </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>SMALL? (Social media assisted LL?)‏ (… enhanced … won’t work) </li></ul></ul>THINK SMALL

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Whither TESOL? Some givens: <ul><li>Growing numbers of teaching practitioners no longer focus professional development activities on annual conferences </li></ul><ul><li>Professional development is done </li></ul><ul><ul><li>daily (weekly, etc.)‏ </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>for free </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>at individual's pace and convenience </li></ul></ul><ul><li>Via Twitter, Ning, Skype, YouTube, Facebook, YahooGroups, TappedIn, WiZiQ ... </li></ul>

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Professional Development <ul><li>Ongoing PD requires connection to a network </li></ul><ul><li>Annual conferences are good for face to face interaction and interpersonal networking </li></ul><ul><ul><li>But inefficient for professional development </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Many conferences / schools etc require participants to leave their networks at the door </li></ul></ul>

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CALL-IS as Change Agent <ul><li>CALL-IS has a 25-year history of change agency in TESOL </li></ul><ul><li>In future, </li></ul><ul><ul><li>successful conferences and professional organizations will combine opportunities for interpersonal connection with connectivity and seamless interaction with distributed personal learning networks </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Those that do not will become irrelevant </li></ul></ul><ul><li>CALL-IS can help bring about positive change </li></ul>

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You can find this presentation online http://slideshare.net/vances http://tinyurl.com/callis25years More presentations by Vance Stevens http://vancestevens.com/papers Vance Stevens blogs at http://adVancEducation.blogspot.com