Innovative educational technologies in foreign languages teaching

Innovative educational technologies in foreign languages teaching

1. Lecture 2. Psychological and pedagogical foundations and theories of learning

   • Mindshifting
     • Mindset
       • Opinions
       • Knowledge
       • Assumptions
       • Emotions
       • Fixed
       • Growth
   • 10 Growth Mindset Statements
     • What am I missing
     • I'm on the right track
     • I'll use some of the strategies we've learned
     • This may take some time and effort
     • I can always improve so I'll keep trying
     • I'm going to train my brain
     • Mistakes help me to learn better
     • I'm going to figure out how they do it
     • Is it really my best work?
     • Plan "A" didn't work
       • Good thing the alphabet has 25 more letters
   • 4 Pedagogical Theories
     • Behaviorism
     • Cognitivism
     • Constructivism
     • Connectivism

2. Lecture 1. Essence and specificity

   • 20th Century Education Model
     • Content
     • Assessment
     • 21st Century Learning
       • 21st CENTURY ASSESSMENT
       • LIFE SKILLS
       • 21st CENTURY CONTENT
       • CORE SUBJECTS
       • LEARNING & THINKING SKILLS
       • ICT LITERACY
   • Learning and Teaching has Changed
     • Flip Your Classroom
     • The Flat World and Education
     • The World is Open
     • University Teaching in Focus
     • Collaborative Learning Techniques
     • Interactive Open Educational Resources
   • The Four Cs of 21st Century Skills
     • Critical Thinker
       • Solving problems
     • Communicator
       • Understanding and communicating ideas
     • Collaborator
       • Working with others
     • Creator
       • Producing high quality work

3. Lecture 3.P edagogical heuristic

   • Differences between the 20th century and 21st century education
     • Assessment
     • Centricity
     • Technology use
     • Teaching Methodologies
     • Learning Styles
   • Heuristic Technique
     • any approach to problem solving or self-discovery that employs a partical method that is not guranteed to be optimal, perfect or rational
   • Inquiry-based learning (IBL)
     • Cycle of Inquiry
       • Reflect
         • Ask
           • Investigate
             • Create
               • Discuss
   • E-learning tools
     • Trello
     • URIDU
     • Graasp
     • The Global Lives Projetc
   • Mind Mapping

4. Lecture 4. Team work as a component of innovative teaching technologies

   • Belbin team roles
     • Thinking
       • Monitor evaluator
       • Specialist
       • Plant
     • Action
       • Shaper
       • Completer finisher
       • Implementer
     • People
       • Resource investigator
       • Teamworker
       • Coordinator

5. Lecture 5. The use of interactive technologies and online platforms

   • Collaboration
     • Concepts of Collaborative Learning
       • One of the partial concepts of Educational Technology
       • Helps to promote spirit among students in small groups
       • A student is able to achieve learning goals as fellow students achieve theirs
       • Helps learners have the opportunity to converse with peers, present and defend ideas
       • Students are able to share knowledge for a longer period of time
   • Google apps
     • Google Drive, Google Docs, Google Spreadsheet, Google Forms, Google Drawing, Google Templatess, Google Calendar, GMail, Google Sites, Google Groups, Google Plus, YouTube Video, Blogger
   • Constructivism Theory
     • An art of learning
       • Learners actively construct their own knowledge
     • The concept is based on experience and personal knowledge
     • A bold departure from traditional objectivist strategies
   • The emergance of Web 2.0

6. Lecture 6. BYOD (Bring Your Own Device)

   • Mobile pedagogy
   • MALL (Mobile Assisted Language Learning)
     • Framework of mobile assisted language learning
       • Reflection
         • Rehearsal
           • Inquiry
             • Outcomes
     • Teacher wisdom
     • Device features
     • Language dynamics
     • Learner mobilities
   • BYOD Approach
   • Emerging Mobile Apps

7. Lecture 7. Artificial Intelligence

   • Various kinds of AI
     • Symbolic AI
       • works with abstract symbols that are used to represent knowledge
       • Classic AI
         • human thinking can be reconstructed on a hierarchical, logical level
     • Neural AI
       • became popular in the late 80s
         • knowledge is not represented through symbols, but rather artificial neurons and their connections
           • the gathered knowledge is broken down into small pieces and then connected and built into groups
       • the bottom-up method
   • 3 Types of AI
     • Artificial Narrow Intelligence (ANI)
     • Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)
     • Artificial Super Intelligence ( ASI)

8. Lecture 8. VR & AR

   • Theory of VR affordance in learning
     • Situation Cognition Theory (SCT)
       • helps to explain the effectiveness of VR learning environment
     • Situated cognition or situated learning
       • focuses on the whole process of learning
   • Virtual Reality (VR)
     • a 3D simulated environment
     • immension with a head-mounted display device
     • 1st person perspective
     • voice communication
   • Ideas to use Augemented Reality (AR) in the classroom
     • vocabulary practice with 3D models
     • welcome messages from staff
     • guided homework