EdTech 201 is a practical workshop for language teachers who want to know more about EdTech and look for different ways to implement new ideas in their teaching. In EdTech 201, each presenter will demonstrate an EdTech tool and give the audience some hands-on experience.
Erin Noxon: Make your own free LL using Google Docs, Classroom, Forms, and Videos
Monitored read-aloud practice, listening to different speakers, answering questions... All things you would love for your students to be able to do in the language lab. But, do you have the time, the budget, and can you find the right software? And how do you even begin to get feedback on how they are learning? What if you could do it all for free, with equipment that you already have lying around, and, after the initial set up time, the class took care of itself? Over the past years I've created my own curriculum out of spare parts, using G Suite tools for voice recognition, Forms-based grading and more. I'll teach you how to do it.
Paul Raine: Nation’s Four Strands and Digital Language Pedagogy with ZenGengo
In recent years, the move toward blended and hybrid forms of language learning has led many teachers to re-evaluate their digital toolsets. Language teachers in particular need not only a reliable set of tools but also a solid pedagogical framework within which these tools can be put to use. Renowned linguist Paul Nation argues that a well-balanced language course should consist of “Four Strands”: meaning-focused input, meaning-focused output, language- focused learning, and fluency development. In this presentation, the speaker will demonstrate the effectiveness of ZenGengo (www.zengengo.com), a web-based language teaching and learning platform, in creating activities that correspond to Nation's Four Strands.
Presenter Bios
Dr. Erin Noxon teaches at Sagano High School in Kyoto, Japan. She has taught EFL English, science, and Tech & Media skills during her 20+ years of teaching in public schools in the US and Japan. She is a Google Certified Innovator and is currently researching global learning with EdTech, ALT training, and public school blended learning environments.
Paul Raine (MA TEFL/TESL, University of Birmingham 2012) is an award-winning teacher, presenter, author, and developer. His books include the best-selling 50 Ways to Teach with Technology and the innovative multi-path graded reader Journey to Mars. He has helped design and develop several websites for teachers and learners of EFL, including abaxlms.com and zengengo.com. He has published numerous research articles on the teaching and learning of English as a second language, and is particularly interested in Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL). He currently teaches at universities in the Tokyo area.
