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Paul Maglione Talks: “Entertainment, Education and Gamification.” #IATEFL
01 month ago
For the first of our posts as one of the official bloggers of IATEFL Glasgow 2012, we spoke to Paul Maglione, co-founder of English Attack, an innovative start-up using movies, games and entertainment news to teach English.
Paul talks to us about the highlights so far of the IATEFL conference for him, what he thinks are good and bad uses of technology for teaching and, most interesting of all for me, gamification.
We’ve got some more great interviews coming up in the next few days from IATEFL. So keep your eyes peeled for Graham Stanley, Pete Sharma and the great digital sceptic Scott Thornbury talking about times when he think technology is right for teaching languages among others.
Francesco Zambotti – How to Get Your Students Actually Using your IWB
01 month ago
Francesco Zambotti is a research assistant at Bolzano Free University and Erickson Publishers of Trento. His area of specialisation is the pedagogically sound use of new technology in the classroom. as such, his talk at the Erickson “Schools in the Digital Era” was one that I’d been looking forward to all conference. And I’m pleased to say, he didn’t disappoint.
In my experience training teachers to use Interactive Whiteboards (IWBs), most teachers are really positive about the potential to bring interesting, stimulating and useful material to life their class’ IWB, but they often complain that it takes so very long to prepare materials that they are put off. Francesco had a simple, but effective solution to this: prepare less, present less, get the students to do all the work – then they’re using the IWB.
Lucio Bragagnolo – An Italian Steve Jobs
02 months ago
Lucio Bragagnolo was one of the key speakers at the recent Erickson “Schools in the Digital Era” conference. Introduced by the Eriksson host as a “guru” in the Italian technology world. I have to say after seeing his talk I wholeheartedly agree!
Lucio was one of the penultimate speakers at the conference, which had dealt with several extremely interesting, but fairly heavy themes to do with students and the “dangers” of the Internet. It was in this highly-charged atmosphere, where many of the teachers present were starting to wonder about the risks of using technology with their students, that Lucio gave his talk. And wow, what a talk!
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TED-ED – The Flipped Classroom Has Officially Arrived!
02 months ago
The incredible TED, purveyor of fascinating video talks on Technology Education and Development by some of the world’s most interesting people, and a personal online favourite of mine, has announced this week that they are starting up TED Ed, a series of lessons by some of the worlds best educators, which will be available online for free.
As well as a set of “powerful learning tools” that Ted has announced will be launched in April, they have a mission statement which, If the quality of their wonderful talks is anything to go by, will mean some pretty awesome teaching and learning opportunities are on their way.
TED-Ed’s mission is to capture and amplify the voices of great educators around the world. We do this by pairing extraordinary educators with talented animators to produce a new library of curiosity-igniting videos.
Interact! Blended Teacher-Training
02 months ago
This eight-week “blended learning” course, our first to be delivered in collaboration with Pete Sharma Associates will help language teachers learn practical ways to use IWBs, apps and other technologies with their students.
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Which Technologies Should I Learn First?
We have chosen a selection of the most-effective, apps, websites and programs and designed our course to show teachers several practical, lesson-focused ideas and activities for each. This means you don’t have to do the hard work of trying to decide which technology is worth learning, and which isn’t.
Quality Assured.
We are offering this course as part of our brand-new collaboration with Pete Sharma Associates, so you can be confident that all the materials have been prepared to the highest pedagogical standards. More importantly still, you can be sure that all the activities you will learn are directly relevant to your learners, or to you as a teacher.
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Pete Sharma Associates and Digitalang – An Exciting New Collaboration!
12 months ago
We are delighted to announce that Digitalang have teamed-up with The Pete Sharma Associates, and we’ll now be “officially” offering courses on behalf of PSA in Italy. We are really excited about this, not only because such a top-quality teacher-training company has recognised the standard of the courses we offer, but also because Digitalang training material, along with the already established training material available from PSA, will now also be offered worldwide by the network of PSA trainers.
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