Slides for my session at VITTA Novermber 2010

1. Welcome to
technoLanguages LIVE!

3. Group Work and ICT in
the Languages Classroom
http://flavors.me/jessmcculloch

4. What I did
What worked and what could have
been better
What I’d try next

5. Dividing Students Into
Groups
1 person you always work with
1 person you have never (or very rarely)
worked with
At least 1 girl
At least 1 boy
Someone who has learnt Chinese since Prep

6. IWB
Flip Cameras Desktops
iPods
Flashcard
Games/craft
activity/mobil
e phones
4-5 Students per group

7. Web Tour Time!
Group Work page on the technoLanguages Wiki –
http://technolanguages.wikispaces.com/Group+Work

8. This type of group work
was good for access to technology
worked well on a rotational basis
but was more about students each doing the same
thing rather than working together.
did not take into account the social context the
students were working in
didn’t plan for interactions between students

9. How I’d do it now…

10. 1 Netbook
1 iPad
1 iPod Touch
1 Video/Still
Camera
1 Microphone
5 students per group
1 Netbook
1 iPad
1 iPod Touch
1 Video/Still
Camera
1 Microphone
1 Netbook
1 iPad
1 iPod Touch
1 Video/Still
Camera
1 Microphone
1 Netbook
1 iPad
1 iPod Touch
1 Video/Still
Camera
1 Microphone
1 Netbook
1 iPad
1 iPod Touch
1 Video/Still
Camera
1 Microphone

11. This type of group work
is also good for access to technology
could be more geared to students working together
to produce a team result/product etc
would require that interactions between students
are planned for
could encourage more self-teaching (watch Sugata
Mitra’s TED video)

12. How do we plan for
interactions between
students?
•What might they say to each other?
•What roles does each student have within the
group?
•How will they need to help each other?
•What language items should they be
encouraged to use when communicating with
each other?