The document discusses the importance of sharing knowledge about foreign language teaching through social media and online tools. It encourages teachers to share resources, ideas, and best practices to foster student independence and creativity. Teachers are also encouraged to take risks and be innovative in their teaching methods. The goal is to develop students' language skills and cultural awareness so they become confident, passionate, and independent language learners.

1. Languages and ICT:
Share and Dare to Be Free!
Isabelle Jones
http://isabellejones.blogspot.com
@icpjones

2. •Threats and opportunities
•Share to know
•Share to grow
•Share to flourish
•Dare to be free

3. Team Starter: 2 minutes...
Communicating in a foreign language makes you feel … (one word)

4. Team Starter
Communicating in a foreign language makes you feel …

5. • The great CPD gap: school-based or …?
• ITT provision: change in the nature of
partnership between universities and
schools

6. • Consultations on National Curriculum and
Primary Languages

7. • Consultations on National Curriculum and
Primary Languages

8. The road ahead?

9. The road ahead?

10. • OFSTED
•Observations
•Exam pressure
•Teachers’ “default teaching mode”
and willingness to innovate/take risks.

11. Evidence of planning

12. • The E-Bac
• School context and ethos
• Perception of our subject within school by students and
other departments

13. Key Question
Are we… or are we…
?

14. Time to re-focus on our main aim…

15. What kind of language learners
do you want?
• Confident speakers
• Passionate and committed
• Creative and spontaneous
• Learners with balanced language skills
(receptive AND productive)/ good literacy skills
• Learners with a strong awareness of the
countries where the Target Language is spoken
• Independent
• Resilient

17. GCSE Skills and Independence
• Cope with a greater degree of unpredictability
Student independence: phonic rules, use of dictionary
& verb tables.
• Understand and use more accurately a widening range of
vocabulary and structures, including some unfamiliar language
=>intercultural understanding, inferences from English and/or
other known language, use of para-linguistic clues (visuals, tone of
voice, bold, italics etc…), memorisation techniques.
• Understand and discuss issues and opinions
=>Knowledge of a range of structures, connectives and synonyms,
linking ideas & points of view in a well-organised way.
• Give full description and accounts
=>proofreading ability, peer assessment & support, memorisation
techniques.
http://www.tagxedo.com/artful/b1b08e0632244c74
AQA GCSE specification-context and purposes

18. Share to know:
Fostering student independence
• Getting ideas to develop Independence and
standards of learning & teaching
• Facts about set-ups to develop better learners and
better linguists (e.g. time allocation, KS2-3 transition)
• Find out about good practice to future-proof our
linguists (to A Level and beyond…)

19. Share to know:
Developing speaking
• Teacher use of the Target Language
• Opportunities for students to speak the language for
a real purpose
• Safe environment for speaking
• Pronunciation and student confidence: for or against
choral repetition?
• Something to aim for: Group Talk
http://www.teachfind.com/teachers-tv/mfl-
implementing-group-talk-initiative-and-other-strategies

20. What should we do?
Get involved!

21. Share to know

22. Share to know:
Social Media and Web Tools
Twitter MFL resources
Diigo TES
Flickr
Pinterest
Slideshare
YouTube
Blogger
Facebook

23. Share to know
#mfltwitteratti

24. Share to know

25. Share to know

26. Share to know

27. Share to know
Teaching topics Repin
Board by topic Button
Follow each other Mobile app

28. Share to know

29. Share to know isabellejones

30. Share to know

31. Share to know
• Yahoo groups- mfl resources
http://www.mflresources.org.uk/
Join the yahoo group from this page

32. Share to know
TES Resources http://www.tes.co.uk/MyPublicProfile.aspx?uc=694292&event=21

33. Share to know

34. http://isabellejones.blogspot.com
Share to know

35. Share to grow

36. Share to grow

37. Share to grow

38. Share to flourish

39. Share to flourish
What is creativity?
One ingredient: Divergent thinking
“I define Creativity as the process of having
original ideas that have value”
Sir Ken Robinson

40. Share to flourish
What does creativity look like in the classroom?
• Students are actively and emotionally engaged
• Different learning styles are catered for
• Students have ownership of at least some of the
content
• Students are given time to explore and research
• There is built-in time for students to reflect on their
learning and improve the outcome
• Students make connections between different
curriculum areas and their own experiences
• Questioning is actively encouraged ideas
connections

41. Share to flourish
How can Social Media Support The Development of
Creativity in The Languages Classroom?
•By sharing ideas with teachers that may have tried similar
activities before: practicalities, pitfalls
•By providing examples of ready-made and tried-and-tested
resources
•By providing an interaction with a worldwide audience
•By providing a source of advice, support and peer-to-peer
training for language teachers

42. Share to flourish
Art: colours and descriptions, biographies, use of visuals
and 3D “hooks”
Music: rhymes, sounds and rhythm
Drama: role-play/ puppets
History: a new slant on what the familiar e.g. ww2
Geography: Barcelona, Paris, the environment, fair trade
Dance: cultural aspects, use movement to remember
Media studies: looking at advertising or short films
Cultural awareness and identity: celebrate & promote
diversity through using pictures, music, the French &
Spanish-speaking world…

43. Share to flourish
• Factors affecting the way we teach/ students
learn (Is the cross-curricular strategy
transferable?)
• Foreign language learning and teaching-a
unique part of the curriculum?
• Wholeschool/ Faculty tools to support the
development of students’ independence
(PLTS/SEAL/ICT-grammar, phonics/AFL)

44. Share to flourish
Are you ready to go boldly? 15 Nov2012
http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storyc
ode=6300174

45. Key Answer

46. Dare to be Free

47. One last thing…

48. Languages and ICT:
Share and Dare to Be Free!
Isabelle Jones
http://isabellejones.blogspot.com
@icpjones

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