online tools to flip your classroom
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Online tools to motivate your EFL
learnersProf. JESÚS SOSA
Universidad de Los AndesEscuela de Idiomas Modernos
Mérida-Venezuela
Strengths
Weaknesses
Opportunities
Threats
TECHNOLOGY
I.-Background theory.
II.-Online tools.
In this workshop, we will discuss:
III.- Suggestions.
I.-Theory Background
-Blended Learning.-Flipping Classrooms.-CALL.
(Horn & Staker, 2015)
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“Flipped Learning is a pedagogical approach in which direct instruction moves from the group learning space to the individual learning space,
and the resulting group space is transformed into a dynamic, interactive learning environment where the educator guides students as they apply
concepts and engage creatively in the subject matter” (p.1)The Flipped Learning Network (2014)
(taken from The University of Texas, 2015)
The three Stages of CALL(Warschauer, 2004)
Computer Assisted Language Learning
II.-UsingOnline tools
1.- Analyze your students’ needs.2.- Set up Your Digital Community.3.- Distribute and Collect Digitally.4.- Support Peer Bookmarking and Curation.5.- Ask your Students for Feedback.
1.-Analyze your students’ needs.
2.-Set up your digital community
Social Networks
Platforms
Blogs
3.-Distribute and collect digitally.
Repositories
Audio
Video
VisualInformation
Screencasting
Games
Presentations
Feedback
Others
4.-Support peer bookmarking and curation.
Bookmarking
Curating
5.-Ask your students
for Feedback.
III.-Suggestions
Ten tips for new e-moderators1. Experience what it’s like to interact and learn online.
2. Consider social cultural factors and pedagogy when designing and
implementing an online language course.
3. Develop a class plan.
4. Carefully select appropriate Web 2.0 tools to encourage, enrich
socialization and complement constructivist learning.
5. Encourage both synchronous and asynchronous interaction.
6. Understand the temperamental nature and inconsistencies
experienced when using technology.
7. Provide continual support and empathy when introducing new
technology.
8. Continually encourage and nurture interaction.
9. Monitor and evaluate students interaction and participation.
10.Stay open-minded and modify practice in accordance with new
knowledge obtained.
Thank you!
•Flipped Learning Network (2014). The Four Pillars of F-L-I-P™ (online version). Retrieved from: http://fln.schoolwires.net/cms/lib07/VA01923112/Centricity/Domain/46/FLIP_handout_FNL_Web.pdf
•Horn, N. & Staker, H. (2015). Designing a blended learning program (online version). Retrieved from: http://www.nccsa.org/2015/02/designing-a-blended-learning-program/
•The University of Texas at Austin (2015). “Flipping a class” (online version). Retrieved from: https://learningsciences.utexas.edu/teaching/flipping-a-class
•Warschauer, M. (2004). Technological change and the future of CALL. In S. Fotos & C. Brown (Eds.), New Perspectives on CALL for Second and Foreign Language Classrooms (pp. 15-25). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
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