Saturday 17 May 2014
Room G03
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Apps and Digital Literacy - Developing 21st Century Skills with Mobile Devices
Tamas Lorincz Despite the recent debate about 21st century skills (read Lindsay Clandfield’s excellent post on eltjam here), this session aims at identifying some of the skills our students can acquire and develop by including mobile devices in the teaching/learning process.
The first part of the session looks at what the specific 21st century skills are. What are the skills our students need and have an opportunity to develop by having new learning opportunities? One might question whether they are specifically 21st century skills, but it is doubtless that collaboration instead of competition, sharing rather hoarding, meaningful professional connections instead of isolation have become key values in today’s society, workplace and classroom. In the second part we take a look at how mobile devices and applications can help students identify and develop these skills. The third part investigates the teacher’s role. We are going to see how familiarity with a few applications can provide a wealth of opportunities for teachers to acquire new skills they will find useful not only in their classroom and how they can cater for the development of our students. Click here to see the Prezi used in this session |
Room G04
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Storybird: A Digital Storytelling Tool
Maryam Malki This presentation will demonstrate to teachers how to use StoryBird as a mobile learning tool that can actively enhance students' language skills. Attendees will guided through the website and presented with an example of a project completed by language learners using StoryBird.
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Room G13
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Practical Ideas for the iPad Primary Classroom
Safwa Abdul-Aziz & Siddig Hammad The mlearning classroom challenge faced by primary teachers is met with real-world answers. Experience a full range of practical apps for creating and maintaining the productivity, engagement and excitement of your primary classroom. Learn to create interactive worksheets and solve your electronic grading dilemma. Aspire to be a paperless practitioner. Intended audience: e-learning teachers.
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Auditorium - Block A
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Mobile Learning for Language Education: Current Trends and Practices
Dr. Christina Gitsaki This presentation will provide an overview of the field of Mobile Learning with specific reference to Mobile-Assisted Language Learning (MALL). Current trends and practices will be outlined along with an evaluation of the field from a research and practice perspective.
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Room G03
Workshop
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Integrating Mobile Technology Seamlessly into Lesson Planning and Course Delivery (Part 1)
Melody Taylor Why limit your lesson planning and course delivery to one app to create original multimedia content when you can unleash you and your learners’ creativity with 3, 4 or even 5 apps to create a final product?
After this workshop, participants will come away with the ability to use multiple apps to create, modify, remix, edit and publish from an iPad to create content that could never have been created with just one app. |
Room G04
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Mobile Technology: Time to Rethink our Current Methodology
Hayet Amdouni Classroom instruction can only cover a fraction of the language instruction; however, with the advancement in mobile technology it has become possible to extend the language curriculum beyond the classroom. The presenter will report on an action-research that uses a blended learning model of teaching to help learners acquire words from the 3000 Academic Word List. Blended or hybrid learning is a mode of teaching that combines face-to-face interaction and on-line learning. The need for blended learning emerged with the widespread availability of digital technology in educational environments and the time constraints placed on the language curriculum with traditional face-to-face learning courses. Students were instructed to make use of the learning management systems and technological devices, that were made available to them, to access materials, interact with the teacher and complete their language tasks. Findings show that the intervention has aided students in improving their vocabulary knowledge, while research implications draw on the importance of using multiple instructional methods to help students attain course goals and empower them as language learners.
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Room G13
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Blending Technology and Realia in 1:1 ESL Classrooms
Rehab Rajab Being an EFL teacher, it has always been great to be able to bring a wide variety of real-life topics and objects to the classroom; not only because realia increases students’ engagement, but also because it exposes the learners to authentic texts as opposed to textbooks material, which is designed for ESL/EFL learners. During this presentation I will share examples of how I have been designing learning activities that integrate realia in 1:1 iPad classrooms. The goal is to engage students in meaningful learning experiences, to involve them in real-life tasks as well as maintain a good balance between technology-focused and face-to-face interaction.
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Room G12
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Dynamic and Unique Mobile Learning Design (Part 1)
Nicholas Yates The use of mobile technology to support teaching and learning is a powerful tool that teachers and students can leverage. There is great potential in its ubiquitous nature in terms of connectivity and collaboration and its capability to aid differentiation to meet teaching and learning needs. This workshop features the adaptable Technological, Pedagogical and Content Knowledge framework to design teaching and learning solutions. The framework emphasizes the importance of blending teachers’ knowledge of technology, pedagogy and the content for dynamic solutions to often unique teaching and learning contexts. Participants will be active in learning and applying this framework to their own contexts. An example built on project-based learning, TPACK and the constructivist theory of learning will be showcased.
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Room G03
Workshop
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Integrating Mobile Technology Seamlessly into Lesson Planning and Course Delivery (Part 2)
Melody Taylor |
Room G04
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Open Digital Badges in the mLearning Environment
James Buckingham The presentation focuses on the relevance of an open digital badges ecosystem strategy to support mLearning. It will first introduce attendees to the concept of micro credentialing and how it can be realized via open digital badges. It then illustrates their application via TESOL Arabia’s current Open Badges project. Then examines their use to support mLearning initiatives elsewhere. Attendees will then be invited to discuss their possible use in their own mLearning initiatives.
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Room G13
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Vocabulary Practice Activities for the iPad Classroom
Christina Gitsaki & Richard Taylor This session will demonstrate a lesson designed to provide ESL students with vocabulary practice in a mobile classroom environment. The presenters will take participants through the design process of the activities and how to execute the lesson in a classroom equipped with iPads.
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Room G12
Workshop
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Dynamic and Unique Mobile Learning Design (Part 2)
Nicholas Yates |
Auditorium - Block A |
UnConference |