IATEFL – On Tech
Phil Bird,
Classroom201X,
Apr 24, 2011
Excellent summary of presentations from the IATEFL conference in Brighton, "a huge sprawling monster of a conference." Phil Bird summarizes Sue Palmer's talk on toxic childhood (video of the talk here in which she argues "children are subjected to far too much screen-based interaction at a young age, which impedes the development of human interaction skills"), Gavin Dudeney on mobile computing (bookmarks and slides, " a number of low resource projects such as Janala, Project ABC, SoloIngles and M4Lit "), Carla Arena on collaboration (videos), and more. There's also a good summary of a number of tech tools sessions, which introduce a number of sites familiar to OLDaily readers, and also some new ones, like Storybird, which impressed me with its simplicity and utility. There's even more summary from Phil Bird in an additional post on classroom ideas, including the ESOL pre-conference event, Jamie Keddie on the authenticity trap (clips and videos), Paul Braddock on motivating teenagers (slides and a broken reader), and more.
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