Happy "Digital Learning Day".

What a journey!    

   

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    Today, I attended my last lecture of my Professional Practice Module. It has been an amazing journey so far as I was given the unique opportunity to be part of a global team of teachers, teacher trainers and academics. As a newly qualified ICT in ELT Language Professional, I feel obliged and happy to share with you an activity to celebrate "Digital Learning Day" on March 13th with this fun (I hope!!!!!) activity

    So, let's celebrate through the best possible way, using ICT in doing what we love,  which is Teaching.

    As a start - and before we engage with using various ICT tools - I would like you to think “How has technology in the classroom helped you to learn?”. I would like you to reflect back on your own experiences that derive from attending the MA in ELT at this reputable institute of higher education. After this small pondering has finished (try to focus on the positive stuff please) then it's time for "warm up activities" using a few of the most collaborative tools.

1. A Present.me, Paddlet or Nearpod activity that will illustrate our professional development these past few months 

Created with Padlet

2. Capture the beat. Take the embedded survey (SurveyMonkey) and let's share our views on some basic affordances. 

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3. Time for some "brainstorming" activity using Tricider to elicit full arguments depicting the various "advantages and disadvantages of using ICT in the modern ELT classroom"

4. Time to put things into perspective. Let's do some "mind mapping" using Popplet to create a visual "road map" of the inter-subjectivity and interconnectivity that exists between the various arguments that were introduced by the previous activity. 

5. Next up. Let's claim co-authorship in our ideas. A season special includes collaborative BoomWriter and WordWriter activities that allow for co-constructing final essays on the same subject. There is even the extra option to include special "Digital Learning Day Vocabulary"! We only have to add our desired scientific terminology and let's see if we can incorporate it all in a small essay. It's really good fun and challenging to watch the "word cloud" slowly disappear as you use the target language. Its "progressive" nature allows users to monitor their writing while "absorbing" the target language. 

 Click on the following link to enrol in our Personal Learning Network (PLN) and complete step 4.  How has technology in the classroom helped me learn

School ID: 8914

6. After publishing our work, a vodcast using screencast-o-matic will assist us to proceed to a summative and formative step by step/line by line assessment/review/narrative on our own writings using as a bench mark Bloom's revised taxonomy for promoting HOTS and the SAMR model. The aforementioned activity will provide the perfect ground for consolidating practice and will enable us to achieve an in-depth/thorough understanding of what we have achieved. 

7. Last but not least, this blog embedding will provide the necessary time and space for cognitive evaluation (or a bit of banter if you wish i.e a Voki avatar from each and everyone with a closing remark, wish, hope, invite,prediction, statement etc).

Cheers everyone, 

Thank you for an amazing experience.

Taz