Final Project
Task: Work with your classmate to host a webinar. Research what is the most viable platform. Liaise with each other over the winter vacation to finalise the details and content. Utilise some kind of audience survey/poll.
- Topic – TBD (maybe TEL, maybe ELF, Global Englishes etc.)
- Date – January, third week
- Duration: 20 minutes
- Time – evening
- Audience – teachers & interested students (target 10+)
Good luck!
Goals
- To discuss and review the third week of the Futurelearn course, which this week focused on technology in language education: What points of similarity were there with our course? Were there any new topics covered?
- To complete our look at some major theories in motivation in learning.
- Assessing online tools – creating a list of criteria
Outside Class Work
Complete the Futurelearn course and write a reflection blog post on your experience: focus on how useful you found the course, weaknesses and ways it could be improved, what you found most interesting and so on.
Reading
- Gardiner’s integrative model of motivation
- Kimberly Noel on Self-determination Theory
- Dörnyei’s L2 self Motivation Theory
We all agreed in the first week of Futurelearn.com’s Understanding Language course, that motivation is a key element in the success or otherwise of students. We have also, on our course talked about how technology can offer various opportunities to enhance learning. In this class we explore what motivation is and reflect on how that may inform decisions on technology use in the classroom. Goals
- To share what was learnt about ‘badges’ (gamification) and assess classmate’s approaches to last week’s task.
- To understand three basic theories of motivation in language learning (to be followed up with more in depth reading).
Extra Reading
- Gardiner’s integrative model of motivation
- Kimberly Noel on Self-determination Theory
- Dörnyei’s L2 self Motivation Theory
Technology, education, learning
We all agreed in the first week of Futurelearn.com’s Understanding Language course, that motivation is a key element in the success or otherwise of students. We have also, on our course talked about how technology can offer various opportunities to enhance learning. In this class we explore what motivation is and reflect on how that may inform decisions on technology use in the classroom. Goals