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(2) A critical analysis of six key technologies

• Blended learning and new pedagogies

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Critical analysis

• 1) Interactive whiteboards
• 2) Virtual Learning Environments
• 3) Podcasts
• 4) Wikis
• 5) Interactive practice materials
• 6) M-learning electronic translators

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1. Interactive whiteboards
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Saving annotations to server
Power Point Word Excel
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Materials banks

• Flip-charts

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Just in-time / Always-on
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Audio in one place
Highlight text to play
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Tools - screen reveal
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Spotlight tool
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Learner response devices
Text to board
Voting
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Interactive whiteboards

• Upside

• Downside

• saving flipcharts
• always-on Internet
• generic software available
• audio in one place
• features e.g. screen reveal
• learner response devices

• need to calibrate
• time to learn!
• cost
• business English software?
• can encourage Teacher-centred classroom
• technology not yet invisible

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(2)Virtual Learning Environments
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Focus on appropriacy
Synchronous
Asynchronous
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Virtual Learning Environments

• Upside

• Downside

• time-consuming to learn
• blended courses pleasing no-one
• cost issues (Blackboard to Moodle)
• robustness issues (Nicenet)
• narrow-use

• information on demand
• appropriacy
• pre/post course tasks

Features Assignments / Chatrooms / Questionnaire
/Quizzes / Forum / Glossary / Handouts
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(3) Podcasts

• Upside

• Downside

• portability mp3 player
• learner control
• authentic materials ESP
• DIY

• wrong kind of podcast
• authoring not for every teacher

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(4) Wikis

• Upside

• Downside

• collaborative
• process writing
• history to see changes

• not intuitive
• not everyone wishes for peer correction

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(5) Interactive practice materials

• Upside

• Downside

• analytical learners
• anytime practice
• instant feedback
• good for crisp areas
• tracking tools

• skewer language
• over-emphasise one area
• stimulus-response
• qualitative vs quantative

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(5) M-learning electronic translators

• Upside

• Downside

• ubiquitous / helpful
• listening to lectures
• cross- check bilingual / mono-lingual
• review favourites / games

• stop students guess from context
• restrict fluency
• mis-used for production - writing

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Task

• Consider in which ways your own teaching is
  different today from 5 years ago.