Technology is our new social glue for creativity
Presentation The British Council Webinars Series for professional development.
http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/january-2014-sylvia-guinan-social-emotional-approaches-teaching-technology
3. Approaches
1
We are all here today because we know that we are
not just teaching language, we are teaching people.
2
As teachers we can teach language better through
integrating social and emotional intelligence into the
communicative process.
3
Technology makes this easier because i t allows for
enhanced creativity through social interactivity.
Educational Technology is fun !!!
5. Appealing to emotions on different
levels
Brain-friendly level and best practice (Creativity)
Personal levels with regard to social responsibility (Caring)
Social interaction through learning (collaboration)
Social and emotional resources from Edutopia
6. Approaches
1) Visual design , colour, presentation.
2) Psychology, grammar and language of mindmapping.
3) Psychology of comics as creative mediums.
4) Music, collaboration , and infinite language-building resources.
5) Collaborative storytelling websites .
Technology helps us to get socially & emotionally engaged
7. How do your students engage with
content?
Colour
coding helps
to explain
grammar
Colour visuals
increase
willingness to
read by up to 80
percent.
Using colour can
increase
motivation and
participation by
up to 80 percent.
Colour enhances
learning and
improves
retention by more
than 75 percent.
The importance of imagery article link
8. How do your students engage with
content?
Colour
coding helps
to explain
grammar
Colour visuals
increase
willingness to
read by up to 80
percent.
Using color can
increase
motivation and
participation by
up to 80 percent.
Color enhances
learning and
improves
retention by more
than 75 percent.
The importance of imagery article link
9. A vocabulary mindmap by Gordana
Popovic
Colour
coding helps
to explain
grammar
Colour visuals
increase
willingness to
read by up to 80
percent.
Using color can
increase
motivation and
participation by
up to 80 percent.
Color enhances
learning and
improves
retention by more
than 75 percent.
The importance of imagery article link
1,003 people
say it’s brainfriendly;)
10. Psychology of mindmapping
Radiant thinking
Creative thinking
Brainstorming
Problem solving
Making choices
Storytelling
Organising ideas
Thinking
Organising other people’s ideas
Teaching
Memory
The group mindmap
Thoughts on visual design inspired by global educators at #ebookevo
13. Comics
1
BRAINFRIENDLY: Comics are fun to read and easy to
remember and demonstrate linguistics in action..
2
CREATIVE: Students identify with the comics which also lend
themselves to self-expression and self-discovery through
story-telling
3
CARING: Theme-based topics can be planned to teach
interpersonal and intrapersonal skills through L2 language
development in non-threatening ways.
50 resources to use animation as a teaching tool
15. Language Development through
comics
11)
1) Collaborative story-telling
2) Social themes
imind
Mindmaple
3) Collaborative time-travel – tenses and story
4) Dialogue building
5) Problem solving
6) Dilemmas
7) Mixed-up stories
8) Guessing games
coggle
Xmind
9) Practising parts of speech
Digital storytelling by Nik Peachey
Popplet
16. Language Development through
comics
11)1) Collaborative story-telling
2) Social themes
3) Collaborative time-travel – tenses and story
imind
Mindmaple
4) Dialogue building
5) Problem solving
6) Dilemmas
coggle
Xmind
Popplet
17. Language Development through
comics
“THE DEGREE OF READER
INVOLVEMENT IS GREATER
WHEN READING COMICS
BECAUSE DEDUCTIVE
REASONING IS OFTEN
REQUIRED TO WORK OUT THE
STORY IN SCENE TO SCENE
TRANSITIONS.”
Scott McCloud
Understanding comics by Scott McCloud
18. Language Development through
comics
11)1) Collaborative story-telling
2) Social themes
3) Collaborative time-travel – tenses and story
imind
Mindmaple
4) Dialogue building
5) Problem solving
6) Dilemmas
coggle
Xmind
Popplet
19. Language Development through
comics
11)1) Collaborative story-telling
2) Social themes
3) Collaborative time-travel – tenses and story
imind
Mindmaple
4) Dialogue building
5) Problem solving
6) Dilemmas
coggle
Xmind
Popplet
20. Language Development through
comics
11)1) Collaborative story-telling
2) Social themes
3) Collaborative time-travel – tenses and story
imind
Mindmaple
4) Dialogue building
5) Problem solving
6) Dilemmas
coggle
Xmind
Popplet
21. Language Development through
comics
11)1) Collaborative story-telling
2) Social themes
3) Collaborative time-travel – tenses and story
imind
Mindmaple
4) Dialogue building
5) Problem solving
6) Dilemmas
coggle
Xmind
Popplet
22. Language Development through
comics
11)1) Collaborative story-telling
2) Social themes
3) Collaborative time-travel – tenses and story
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Mindmaple
4) Dialogue building
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5) Problem solving
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6) Dilemmas
coggle
Xmind
Popplet
24. Language Development through
music
Top all-time pop songs for the classroom
50 ways to use music and song in the classroom
Collo-tunes by Fluency MC
Eduglogster
Popullar
25. Storytelling with technology
Storybird intermediate
Prezi idioms story
Storybird advanced
Prezi proficiency vocabulary story
Poetry glogster
Britlit
learnenglish
kids
Pic lits
Domoanimate
Educational Technology in ELT: digital Storytelling
26. Online playgrounds and more
How to turn your learning management system into an online playground
The psychology of storytelling for fluency development
Enhanced listening through storytelling
Storytelling
webinar
Empathy in
Ed. webinar
Listening and
storytelling
27. Featured comic sites
British Council
comics
Pixton
Bitstrips
Makebelief comix
50 Resources using animation as a teaching tool
28. Safe Social blogging sites for
students
ClubEFL
Spark your writing
Something to write
about
Class wikis
50 Resources using animation as a teaching tool
29. Safe Social blogging sites for
students
Special thanks to the British Council for hosting this webinar and to
The British Council/Teaching English page on facebook for encouraging
Creativity in English Language Teaching.
Thanks also to Edutopia for so much information about social and
emotional learning.
Finally, thanks to all interested teachers who are passionate about
professional development.
50 Resources using animation as a teaching tool