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What do you think?
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Once a new technology rolls over you, if you’re not part of the steamroller, you’re part of the road.
Stewart Brand
What I love about new technology is that it really pushes the art…It’s idea based. You can do anything!
Robert Rodriguez
Something Old, Something New:Dealing with the challenge of new digital tools Karen HainesAKTESOL Nov 13 2013
Introducing…
Where do you teach? What level?
Tools that you have learned to use recently?
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Something Old, Something New:Dealing with the challenge of new digital tools
Karen HainesAKTESOL Nov 13 2013
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Polarised views
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Once a new technology rolls over you, if you’re not part of the steamroller, you’re part of the road.
Stewart Brand
What I love about new technology is that it really pushes the art…It’s idea based. You can do anything!
Robert Rodriguez
Needs writing in it?
I wish we still had pigeon holes – it takes a lot less time than email! Don’t talk to me about Twitter!Moodle! Noodle! Why all these crazy names?What’s wrong with good old-fashioned classroom teaching?I mean, look at the rubbish on Facebook! Seriously?!!Well, I know what works for me!
Have you seen W?You must try X!Y is just amazing!You mean you don’t use Z with your students?!What do you mean you’re still getting your head round A?
…‘techno-pedagogy’ is oriented less towards maximizing the potential affordances inherent in different technologies than towards a reflective process of finding appropriate matches between those affordances and teachers’ individual pedagogical priorities.Tochon and Black 2007
Learning about ourselves Becoming a language teacher is about developing
identity (Mann, 2005; Pennington, 2002; Kubanyiova, 2009; Singh & Richards, 2006)
Use of technology changes in practice changes in identity (West et al., 2007)
Richards (2008): ‘a teacher-learner’s identity is remade through the acquisition of new modes of discourse and new roles in the course room’.
Use of technology may threaten existing teacher identities (White, 2007; White & Ding, 2009; Comas-Quinn, 2011)
Learning about ourselves
Have you had to change as a
teacher?
Has technology been part of the change?
Learning to see affordance
What is affordance? Don Norman explains General: Gibson, 1979; Norman 1988,
1999 Computer supported learning: Conole &
Dyke, 2004; Kirschner, 2002, 2004; Stoffregen, 2003; Dohn, 2009, Orlando, 2009
Language learning: Levy and Stockwell, 2006; Tochon & Black, 2007; Lafford, 2009; Guichon and Hauck, 2011
AffordanceDefinition: the potential that teachers perceive in a particular technology tool that will support learning and teaching activities in their educational contexts.
attributes of the tool
characteristics of the teacher
teacher technology
perceived affordance
Action for teaching and learning
Kinds of learning affordance identified by teachers
Students engage...
...with language
...with culture
...through communication
...with learning
...out of class time
Breen, Candlin & Waters, 1979Levy & Stockwell, 2006
Content
Process
Learning to see affordance (my research) Takes time Relates to context/experience Teachers differ General affordances vs specific
Learning to see affordance
Identify the affordances that you perceive in a digital tool you have been using with students What do you see as affordances for supporting
students’ learning? For your teaching? Are the affordances you perceive generalisable
or are they specific to your context? Do you perceive affordances that relate to
content or process? Are you missing affordances of this tool?
Learning to see affordances
New tool that is available?What are the affordances?
Your pedagogical priorities? Match to the affordances of a new tool?
Learning as doing
Learning as becomingLearning as
experience
Learning as belonging
Situ
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d Le
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Wenger (1998)
Community
Identity
Meaning
Practice
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Situ
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Dan Pontefract (2013)
Situ
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Haines (2011)
in-service teacher learning
input
use
formal
informal
exploring tool
using tool in
teaching
eg. Mary
eg. Anja
Takes time eg. Mary, Sue
Summary of CALL situated learning
Learn by doing Be deliberate about learning Know where to find help Reflect on experience Share experience Be supported by the institution
Strategies
Create your own personal learning network
Personal learning networks
Strategies
Create your own personal learning network
Exploit learning possibilities in your workplace (be deliberate)ObservationBeing mentoredTeam teachingResearch
Learning about technology
What learning strategies have worked for you?
How did you learn about a
new tool?
Summing up…
What are your pedagogical priorities? How do new tools challenge your teacher
identity? What are the affordances of a new tool for me
and for my students’ learning?Engaging students with content Engaging students with process
How can I be deliberate in learning to use new tools effectively?
Karen Haines ([email protected])