Episode I
- Theme: Human Dignity & Freedom
- Texts: Visible Learning (John Hattie); CLIL (Kay Bentley); Film in Action (Kieran Donaghy)
- Topics: teachers as modern time leaders, traditional vs new pedagogies
- Threads: teaching productive English skills; running film projects
- Tasks: getting started
- Transitions: visible learning and modern leadership (topical); using the film in foreign language instruction and film projects (task)
Pedagogy before technology
However keen on technology you are, put pedagogy first. Always.
Episode III
- Theme: Humanity & Democracy
- Texts: Blended learning in EFL: Adopting a Principled Approach to Adopting Technology (Clare Whittaker)
- Topics: four guiding questions to blended learning; eight key questions to integrating technology
- Threads: outcomes; added value; time& effort; syllabus; skills; location; role; resources
- Tasks: generating, evaluating and editing new learning and teaching content
- Transitions: scaffolding; differentiating; facilitating; demand-high teaching
What is Democracy?
No one is born a good citizen, no nation is born a democracy. Rather, both are processes that continue to evolve over a lifetime.
Social media and mobiles in the classroom
Keeping mobiles out of the classroom has been a battle for the past few years but recently it seems to have become worse than