Coaching: The Art and Science “The sooner you fall behind, the more time you’ll have to catch up.”
Ten steps behind and trying to catch up
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Ten Steps Behind and Trying to Catch Up – What can you do? By Ann Shlapobersky
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Ann ShlapoberskyOur students were born into a new world, a new century where pen and paper are writing tools of ancients and in a millisecond they have immediate access to information. In this talk I will explore what teachers can do to bridge the gap and join the century that our students were born into.
Transcript of Ten steps behind and trying to catch up
Ten Steps Behind and Trying to Catch Up – What can you
do?
By Ann Shlapobersky
Do you remember?
•Gapmaster
•Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?
•Encarta
•Eudora
•Into Reading
•Towards Bagrut
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• Computer rooms/language labs in all schools
• Teacher training in CALL: Computer Assisted Language Learning
Learning by ComputerThen to Now
The last 20+ years
•Behaviorist - CALL: Kill and Drill Computer / language labs
•Problem solving and constructivist: communication and decision making
•CMC - Computer Mediated Communication: WebQuests / ThinkQuests:
Computers in the library with Internet Computer/ language labs + Internet
•EMC – Electronic Mediated forums: blogs, Skype, mobile phones… Classroom’s with computers + Internet + projectors
Classroom’s with IWB - Interactive White Boards
The Teacher’s Timeline – 20 years
•Language Lab: Drill / Kill•Windows / Word + PowerPoint•CD ROM programs•Internet / Email•Developing interactive activities•Uploading /downloading•Building your own homepage •School Websites•Social networking•IWB
Our Students Timeline – 20 years
•Games:−Atari −Nintendo −Pacman −Tetris−Super Mario−Play Station−Dungeons and Dragons−Final Fantasy−SimCity
•Word / PowerPoint•Internet•Downloading/uploading: movies, music…•Online gaming•Email•Wii•SMS•YouTube•Twitter•Facebook•Second Life: Avatar
CBS 2008 : Computers in the Israel home
Central Bureau of Statistics 2008 http://www.cbs.gov.il/reader/newhodaot/hodaa_template.html?hodaa=200915198
What are you doing to keep up?
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Some questions to think about
• Should we have to keep up with our students’
technological knowledge and abilities?
• Should our students write with pens/pencils?
• Should we allow our students to email their
homework to us? Should we email to them?
• Should our students be responsible for their
computer / Internet / printer?
What are your options?
• Send homework assignments by email
• Send the listening file to their phone
(Bluetooth)
• Update your class website:• with homework and when the assignment is due• when the next test or quiz is and what will be on
it• add video or audio clips for review, extra
practice or fun: −reading a poem−singing a song−explaining grammar
−listening comprehension exercise
It’s always up to you!
“The study found that students in all the laptop schools learned to access information, manage it, and incorporate in into their written and multimedia products.
However, the focus on evaluating information, understanding the social issues surrounding it, and analyzing it for the purpose of knowledge production varied widely across schools.
Some schools succeeded in promoting scholarly approaches to working with information, whereas other schools mostly limited themselves to teaching procedural functions of computer and Internet use."
Warschauer, M. (2007). “Information Literacy in the Laptop Classroom”. In Teachers College Record, 109 (11), 2511-2540. New York: Columbia University.
Having some fun
• Wordle - create word clouds• Easy Define – generate word list definitions
and synonyms• Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus • WordSift - helps to quickly identify
important words that appear in the text• Eyejot - record or upload your video, and
send• Voxopop – create voice talk groups• Nik's Daily English Activities
Bibliography
• Central Bureau of Statistics 2008 http://www.cbs.gov.il/reader/newhodaot/hodaa_template.html?hodaa=200915198
• Easy Define - http://www.easydefine.com/• ESL-Lab: Listening Comprehension - http://www.esl-lab.com/call/911rd1.htm#pre • Eyejot - http://www.eyejot.com/ • Nik's Daily English Activities - http://daily-english-activities.blogspot.com/ • Past Simple - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5E9SWg6_fw• Richard Cory reading - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vICuZwEMoTw • Simon and Garfunkel – Richard Cory song - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v
=euuCiSY0qYs&feature=related • Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus - http://www.visualthesaurus.com/ • Voxopop – http://www.voxopop.com/ • Warschauer M. (1996) "Computer Assisted Language Learning: an Introduction". In
Fotos S. (ed.) Multimedia language teaching, Tokyo: Logos International: 3-20 http://www.ict4lt.org/en/warschauer.htm
• Warschauer, M. (2007). “Information Literacy in the Laptop Classroom”. In Teachers College Record, 109 (11), 2511-2540. New York: Columbia University.
• Wordle - http://www.wordle.net/• WordSift - http://www.wordsift.com/
What could you do with your students during and after they see this video?
Family Dinner
Ann Shlapobersky – [email protected]
