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Dave Truss

ELT notes: IWBs and the Fallacy of Integration - 7 views

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shared by Dave Truss on 20 Apr 10 - Cached
  • motivation and control. One seems to need the other, apparently. Keep the students motivated and you are a great teacher in control of the learning process. But we miss the point. Motivation has a short-term effect. New things will be old again. If we equal motivation with learning we will cling too much to it and direct our best efforts (and school budget) to gaining back control. A useless cycle that can lead us to consider extremely double-edged ideas like paying students to keep them learning.
  • We need autonomous, self-motivated students in love with the process of how humanity has learnt.
  • There is a underlying idea in the framing of our questions that needs unlearning. The belief that there are "levels", layers of complexity, hierarchies that we can detect and... well, control. But wait! Isn't that the very old way we want to truly change with new technologies?
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  • We already know it's about shifting power. Tight teacher control is a hindrance to foster empowered students who own their learning paths. We need to be aware of the old way finding its way to surface in what we question.
  • Tech is tech no matter what it does. It's innovative in its nature.
  • We can tell by the huge resistance to it. If there is no resistance in the process, we are probably facing improvements and weighing their gains in efficiency points. Good enough, only it is not an innovation. Innovation is not about "more or better", it's about "different".
  • What is the school picture today? What does my working context look like?I see an illusion that technology is to be bought, taught, used in class and then we can expect everyone to be happy. This false assumption seems to be guiding managerial decisions. This is the same old story behind the idea of technology "integration".
  • I doubt formal courses can make people adopt informal ways of learning. Courses could change teacher behaviour and leave their mindset untouched.
  • students are not digital natives. They know very little about educational uses of the technology they have been using for entertainment purposes only. They are quite ready to resist thoughtful, time consuming uses of the same technology. Particularly if they have had no part in choosing or deciding together with the teacher how we would use it.
  • First things first. Stay out of the tug-of-war. It is not a moment to think if the school is wrong in imposing it and teachers are right in resisting it. It's probably the moment to get together and go ahead purposefully. This is short-term thinking, though. Somehow teachers need to communicate to managers that the buy-don't-ask is an unhealthy approach from now on.
  • Ideally, we should envision a future where authorities engage teachers in conversations before buying.
  • Innovative teaching practices require innovative management practices. Let's think of adoption models that rely on having one-to-one conversations with teachers, experimenting together, asking them how far they feel they need mentoring, identifying what makes teachers happy at work.
  • Dave Truss on 20 Apr 10
     
    We need autonomous, self-motivated students in love with the process of how humanity has learnt.
Dave Truss

ELT notes: Some thoughts on identity -particularly mine - 6 views

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shared by Dave Truss on 08 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • Dave Truss on 08 Sep 11
     
    Who are we when we are online? Maybe a better question could be, What is it about you that surfaces in an online environment and would not come up anywhere else?
Dave Truss

Blogworthy Tweets - ELT notes - 4 views

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shared by Dave Truss on 18 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Dave Truss on 18 Oct 09
     
    RT @budtheteacher: We can never know the totality of our influence in the world, or what conversations happen in response to our work.
Suzie Nestico

#WW Twitter Welcome Wednesday -just the "Guidelines" | Kalinago English - 1 views

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shared by Suzie Nestico on 29 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • For example, do this#WW welcome @Craig an English Language Teacher based in Dubai, #ELT ~ interested in #dogme and chocolate. #TEFL#WW @Jenny - she's a Teen Fiction author based in Ireland. Open to being interviewed by your students.  #fiction #ireland #education #younglearners #WW shout out 2 @Bob a good buddy of mine, help me welcome him! - #mlearning evangelist #edublogger and head of #edtech at @UniversityofMiami But please don't do this:#WW @Jenny @Craig @Bob @June @Alice @TomatoHead @eLearningGuru  as this is unhelpful to everyone.
  • Suzie Nestico on 29 Mar 11
     
    Great idea to help colleagues get started on Twitter with a #WW ~ "Welcome Wednesday"
John Marr

Research-based Strategies and No - 17 views

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shared by John Marr on 15 Jul 11 - Cached
  • John Marr on 15 Jul 11
     
    EResearch-based strategies in order of effectiveness in improving student achievement, a brief description of each strategy, specific teaching & learning activities
Dave Truss

ELT notes: Why I Write - 4 views

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shared by Dave Truss on 20 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • Dave Truss on 20 Oct 11
     
    I write because if I left this post for later, you may never see the like of it again. I write and publish to make sure that words will not be marred by my over thinking and prevent me from being faithful to my draft conversation style with you, dear readers, as I do now and today.
Nik Peachey

Using the webcam to engage with online students - EnglishUp - 3 views

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shared by Nik Peachey on 25 Nov 14 - No Cached
  • Nik Peachey on 25 Nov 14
     
    Tips on how to use the webcam for teaching online
Nik Peachey

Why ebooks should be cheaper and how to get my book for free - 2 views

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shared by Nik Peachey on 09 Nov 15 - No Cached
  • Nik Peachey on 09 Nov 15
     
    In an effort to counteract this I would like to make my ebook Digital Video - A manual for language teachers freely available to anyone without the means to pay for it who is willing to help me with a little research project.
  • Walter Antoniotti on 15 Nov 15
     
    I added a link in the language section of my Free HS Textbooks collections. Suggestions welcome. http://www.textbooksfree.org/Free%20HS%20Textbooks.htm
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