Teachers as Designers
Abstract
Teachers as Designers is a 5-week project-based session which follows on a successful Hands on ICT (Information and Communications Technology) MOOC for educators interested in developing creativity techniques and approaches to integration of educational technologies inspired by learning design. It is an adapted version to suit the needs of language teachers and teacher trainers from all ELT sectors. During the session the participants are going to acquaint themselves with the Learning Design framework in order to design, evaluate and refine a learning technology-based activity (or a sequence of activities) which, by meeting the exact needs of their learners, aims to solve an educational challenge in the participant's context.
http://www.yishaymor.org/lds
Session Objectives
During this session, the participants will:
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get to know Learning Design framework as a way of integrating learning technology into the classroom;
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design, evaluate and refine a learning technology-based activity that fits their educational context and meets their students' specific needs;
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further develop peer reviewing and constructive feedback provision skills;
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acquaint themselves with or further develop expertise in using a personalised selection of digital tools (assistance will be provided but please note this is not the primary aim of the course; the focus is on the principles of learning design).
Target audience
Any English (and in fact Modern) language teacher or teacher trainer who is interested in meaningful integration of educational technology into the classroom.
Tech savviness is not required but some basics* when it comes to educational technology use are helpful and so is openness to experimentation and peer learning.
* Use of online collaborative documents, sharing content via hyperlinks, embedding audio and video files, information search techniques.
Session completion
Certificates of Active Completion will be awarded for successfully completing the following minimum:
- building an ICT-based activity in line with the Learning Design process;
- participating in at least 3 out of the 5 peer reviews;
- completing the reflective report at the end of the session.
Syllabus - Week by week
The session consists of 5 weekly phases (Mon-Sun), each consisting of a sequence of 3 core tasks and a peer-reviewing activity (except for week 1 which consists of Get Started activities and two core activities, followed by a peer-reviewing activity).
Each week ends with a convergence session delivered by moderators with the participants invited as guests as well as guest speakers who are experts in Learning Design methodology.
Week 1 (Jan 10 - 17, 2016) INITIATE
Warm-up activities will be available from 3 January for any eager beaver to get stuck in in the build up to 10 January, the official start of the session:
Getting started with the VLE: create a free Canvas account, a Canvas profile and a Learning Design Journal (as part of the Canvas e-Portfolio)
Getting social:
Week 1 core activities will be made available on the 1st day of the session, 11 January:
Activity 1.1 Find out about Learning Design for Technology Integration
Activity 1.2 Thinking of the challenge in your context
Activity 1.3 Peer review of your dream
EVO TaD Convergence session - 17 Jan 2016, 1 pm GMT (via Adobe Connect room) - with a guest speaker!
Week 2 (Jan 18 - 24, 2016) INVESTIGATE
Activity 2.1 WHERE? Analysing context, factors and concerns
Activity 2.2 WHO? Get familiar with the persona concept
Activity 2.3 WHY? The objectives of your ICT-based learning activity
Activity 2.4 Peer-review - Your ICT-based activity objectives
EVO TaD Convergence session - 24 Jan 2016, 1 pm GMT (via Adobe Connect room)
Week 3 (Jan 25 - 31, 2016) INSPIRE & IDEATE
Activity 3.1 Search for existing ICT-based learning activities
Activity 3.2 Turn your persona into a scenario
Activity 3.3 Create the evaluation protocol
Activity 3.4 Peer review - Applying your heuristics evaluation
EVO TaD Convergence session - 31 Jan 2016, 1 pm GMT (via Adobe Connect room) - with a guest speaker!
Week 4 (Feb 1 - 7, 2016) PROTOTYPE
Activity 4.1 Prototype your idea
Activity 4.2 Revisit and update your heuristics
Activity 4.3 Test your prototype
Activity 4.4 Peer-review - Consolidate your prototype
EVO TaD Convergence session - 7 Feb 2016, 1 pm GMT (via Adobe Connect room)
Week 5 (Feb 8-14, 2016) EVALUATE & REFLECT
Activity 5.1 Publish your learning activity
Activity 5.2 Peer review - Your learning activity
Activity 5.3 Your Learning Design Process report
Activity 5.4 Reflect and share your thoughts
EVO Closing Convergence session - 14 Feb 2016 (time and venue TBC)
Session Communication Channels
- Canvas, a Virtual Learning Environment (courtesy of Open University of Catalonia), is going to be used as the main learning platform in order to display content and support interaction between participants, and participants and moderators. There will be two main interaction spaces: Discussion Forums and Learning Design Journal (a Canvas-integrated e-Portfolio to document learning and share achievements with other participants for peer review).
The moderators team will use the Announcements forum for daily journal entries to help the participants to stay on track.
In order to join the session in Canvas, the participants will have to create a free account - See the 'Join this Session' area below to do so.
- Adobe Connect room (courtesy of Learning Technologies SIG) for weekly convergence sessions.
- Social media channels to disseminate outputs and artefacts produced by the participants.
- Project website http://teachersasdesigners.edublogs.org : the moderators team are building a blog to have space to reflect on the session design, delivery and evaluation, to showcase and celebrate the participants outputs and achievements.
Session Sponsors
IATEFL Learning Technologies SIG
Braz-TESOL
Join this session
The action starts on Jan 10, 2016.
To join this group:
Between 3 and 10 January 2016 |
- Go to: https://handsonict-mooc.elearnlab.org/enroll/8DWN9D
- Click on "Enroll in Course".
- You will have to create a free account. If you experience any problems, please email teachersasdesignersevo at gmail dot com stating clearly in the subject line that the message refers to Canvas sign-up.
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Moderators
If you would like to get in touch with us, please email us at: teachersasdesignersevo at gmail dot com and one of us will get back to you.
Ania Rolińska
@anzbau
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Glasgow, Scotland
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Ania is an experienced and well-qualified EFL/EAP tutor (University of Glasgow and Glasgow School of Art), online teacher trainer (International House) and a student (MSc in Digital Education/University of Edinburgh).
She is a keen advocate of innovation in ELT and professional development. Special areas of interest include learner’s autonomy, online course/activity design, multimodal approaches to writing and opportunities learning technologies offer for stimulating creativity and ‘will to learn’.
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Karin Heuert Galvão
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São Paulo, Brazil
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Karin Heuert Galvão has been an EFL Teacher for 15 years and Director at i-Study Interactive Learning for 8 years. She holds, among others, the CELTA and IH Certificate in Online Tutoring. She also writes materials for EFL courses for students from 2 years old and on. She is one of the moderators of an online community based on Facebook: BrELT (Brazil’s English Language Teachers). She is passionately committed to the quality of the learning experience and is always looking for opportunities to learn, teach and share ideas.
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Karina Thorne
@karinapthorne
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Beijing, China
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Karina is an EFL teacher (Beijing Institute of Economics and Management) and Masters student (Digital Technologies for Language Teaching with the University of Nottingham). Her studies, coupled with an inquisitive nature, have inspired her to experiment with digital tools in the classroom, volunteer as a student blogger mentor and to certify as an Online Tutor.
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Emma Cresswell
@emcresswell
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Coimbra, Portugal
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Emma is the Assistant Director of Studies at International House Coimbra and online teacher trainer (International House). She regularly presents at conferences, both face to face and online as well as moderates at the International House Teachers' Online Conferences. Special areas of interest include promoting the use of different technologies in the classroom, social media relations, linguistics and etymology and their effect on language learning. |
Jeanne Waldburger
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San Antonio, TX, USA
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Jeanne has been an ESL teacher for one year. She has a bachelor's degree in Spanish and French. She has a CELTA certificate as well as a Certificate in Online Tutoring. Special areas of interest are pronunciation and writing.
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