45th Annual Conference and Exhibition Brighton Centre, Brighton, UK – 15th -19th April 2011 / Hansjürg Perino, [email protected] Introduction The Virtual Journey – and Its Limits Questions
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45th Annual Conference and Exhibition Brighton Centre, Brighton, UK – 15th -19th April 2011 / Hansjürg Perino, [email protected]
Introduction
The Virtual Journey – and Its Limits
Questions
45th Annual Conference and Exhibition Brighton Centre, Brighton, UK – 15th -19th April 2011 / Hansjürg Perino, [email protected]
Virtual . . . Reality
45th Annual Conference and Exhibition Brighton Centre, Brighton, UK – 15th -19th April 2011 / Hansjürg Perino, [email protected]
Why ICT at school: a legal requirement !
• (…) In particular, the curriculum should:
• promote high standards, particularly in literacy, numeracy and ICT capability
• promote and pass on essential knowledge, skills and understanding valued by society to the next generation
• be relevant to children and prepare them for the here and now, for the next phase of their education, and for their future
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Benefits of ICT at school
(Steve) Kennewell 2004, p. 15: (Meeting the standards in Using ICT for Secondary
Teaching)
Benefits for Learners:• wide range of up-to-date information sources within and beyond school;
• process information and develop higher quality reports;
• produce dynamic images to represent relationships;
• hypothesise and test ideas for themselves;
• engage in activities similar to those by professionals in the subject;
• work together in teams;
• work independently of their teacher;
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Benefits for Teachers:
• Access wide range of up-to-date information sources within and beyond the school;
• prepare high quality material for pupils to see as a class and to interact with individually;
• organise a variety of resources in advance of a lesson that can be accessed easily and rapidly for class use;
• communicate with students outside school hours (email, platforms) [!?!];
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Teaching English in 21st Century
This is what google says…
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School Kids Today...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A-ZVCjfWf8
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And THIS is the ANSWER:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4g5M06YyVw&feature=related
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CALL at Beginners‘ Level• Even the ABC may be more interesting to learn...
Sparky's ABCs / game “alphattack”
• Basic beginners’ conversation as “chat”
• Make a mini-movie for “introductions”youtube
• Use a free “cartoon-maker” programme on internet: e.g. dfilm.com or digitalfilms.com
• Create a group for a class on a social network, or on a wiki, e.g. http://www.golivewire.com/
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Why using ICT at this level?• Not because CALL is better than other methods…
• But it adds variety, creativity, learner independence
• Often students are better at technology than teacher
motivation
• Language as such at beginners level is not that interesting
embedding in ICT comes in handy to make it interesting
• More internet sites: post-it stickers can be produced here: https://linoit.com/session/login
• postcards can be sent from here: http://www.postcards.org/
• comics can be created here: http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/Comix/
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Vocabulary...• Learn words with slide.com Example
• Or use “wordle”
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Intermediate and Advanced1. Language practice:
• http://iteslj.org/links/
• http://158.132.164.193/CILL/grammar.htm
• http://www.english-4u.de/grammar_exercises.htm
• http://a4esl.org/ (there is even a special English-Russian page: http://iteslj.org/v/r/ )
• http://english-zone.com/index.php
• http://www.swisseduc.ch/english/ (Swiss made )
• My collection: http://perino.pbworks.com/EFL+grammar+links
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Making Quizzes / Authentic Input
Quizzes:
• http://www.wiziq.com/ http://www.proprofs.com/quiz-school/
• Authentic Language Sources:
• http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/teach/
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/
• http://ireport.cnn.com/ (watch reports from contributors or upload your own)
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Youtube for Grammar
• -ly movie by Tom Lehrer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dB2Ff8H7oVo
• “silent –e” by Tom Lehrer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91BQqdNOUxs
Go to youtube and find more about any subject of grammar you like… (but careful: some films are extremely boring!)
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Webquests
• To find out what webquests are, go to this page: http://webquest.org/index.php
• “prefabricated” webquests on the net, such as these: http://academics.smcvt.edu/cbauer-ramazani/Links/webquests.htm#Templates%20for%20creating%20Web%20Quests
• A grid for evaluation of webquests can be found here: http://webquest.sdsu.edu/webquestrubric.html
• Examples by trainees: http://landtwing.pbworks.com/Webquests
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Working with Stories• Picture or photo stories using presentation
software (PowerPoint, Keynote, Open Office) or “bubblr”: http://www.pimpampum.net/bubblr/
illustration, animation and sound are the enriching elements
• Try a “mini-saga”: lesson plan by another teacher trainee here: http://mkistler.pbworks.com/
• Here’s a story task, by yet another trainee: http://myersale.pbworks.com/The-Short-Story-Project
• Storybird: http://storybird.com/ / “MailVu.com”
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Literature / Collaboration• comprehensive SwissEduc English Reading
List: http://www.swisseduc.ch/english/readinglist/:
A wealth of information awaits you there.
• Collaboration Tools (amongst many other):
• Googledocs: watch explanation / go there…(www.google.com)
• http://pbworks.com : full-”wysiwyg” Wiki
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Where Traditional Settings Beat Technology Rule: the higher the language level the more
traditional settings, especially for speaking.
W H Y ?
Language is spontaneous; it is often ambiguous and often needs immediate clarification , or the correct understanding of the underlying intention of ambiguity, which can be deliberate non-commitment, irony, humour, or even intentional verbal abuse. (cf. Also Peter Grundy‘s opening plenary speech!)
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Where Traditional Settings Beat Technology
• Real discussions invariably beat virtual forum discussions. (“real life blogs” have a different function)
• Role-play, acting, laughter, passion, shouting, …
• Non-verbal factors hard to imitate: gestures, tone, body language, facial expression
• Even with a thousand “friends” in “Facebook” … you might still be alone .
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Conclusion:Teachers have a lot of new tools a lot of new tools at their
disposition to present materials in a professional way, or to create exciting learning environments.
Learners are given unheard-of opportunities and means(up to only little time ago) to practise and use their foreign language.
And yet, with all this, we must not forget what language is ultimately made for: the direct exchange with our fellow human beings. There is nothing that can replace the kicks that we get out of a face-to-face encounter with an interesting person made of flesh and blood …
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And that is why the journey to virtual places, fascinating and most useful as it is for practising wildly,
should not turn into a purpose of its own, but eventually lead us back to
the enjoyment of REAL LIFE.REAL LIFE.
Thank you for your attention – The End
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Contact / Downloads• M.A. Hansjürg Perino, University of
Zürich, [email protected]
• Download materials from: http://perino.pbworks.com/IATEFL-Brighton-2011
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