How can we help them interact with media critically and express themselves through video, images, and audio?

Answer all these questions and more with a new season of Talking ELT – the easiest place to learn about the big issues in language teaching!

Much of teaching still focuses on single skills. Here are four ways you can integrate multimodal literacy into language learning.

Reading, Writing, Listening, and Speaking are no longer enough. Today, successful communication involves pictures, videos, presentations, and other multimedia – so our students need to develop their multimodal literacy. Watch this session and learn what multimodal literacy is, why it's important, and how to support it – as well as a range of practical activities to use in your classroom!

Follow this step-by-step guide to planning and presenting effective ELT workshops. This iis ideal for you if you are working in English language training

10 ways to build an effective ELT teaching team for your English school so each one of your team contributes with their unique strengths.

Abstract: In this presentation, we will be looking at the potential of a range of AI powered tools to transform the work we do in the classroom and to help our learners develop in a way that is both more effective and more closely adapted to their needs and interests. In the session, I will share with you a pedagogically sound approach to utilising tools like ChatGPT and explore some of the issues that these technologies raise. The focus of the session will be on how to make your job easier and how to make lessons more creative and engaging.

Through the lesson, students find out more about white privilege by watching a short video, and they hear some people sharing their views about white privilege.
They use techniques from dialogue building to explore the person’s beliefs in a neutral way. They then find out about the beliefs of their peers by asking open questions and listening.

What’s your post pandemic tool kit? For many teachers the recent pandemic brought about a quantum leap in the use of technology. Being dropped into remote classrooms with little notice and often less training forced teachers to either sink or swim in those early few weeks.

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In our increasingly polarized world, competition and confrontation have seemingly taken priority over collaboration and understanding. In this presentation, Nik Peachey shares a range of techniques you can use to help your students develop the skills they need to navigate our progressively complex society.

Make your classes inclusive learning spaces by identifying barriers that can affect learning and practical strategies to overcome them.

Let’s take advantage of this new technology and see how we can use it for flipped learning. In this session, I'll introduce several techniques that can help students develop their autonomous learning skills so that they can work more effectively in pairs and small groups. I’ll also be sharing a range of prompts that students can submit to ChatGPT in order to turn it into an English-speaking friend, a Socratic teacher, and even a time machine that can drop them into a scene from Star Wars or a classroom at Hogwarts.

Learn to collect far more data and information about a remote English lesson than it is about most physical classroom lessons with this lesson tips for teachers

Discover everything you need to know about AI in education in 2023, including tools and strategies for integrating AI in the classroom

AI Round Table Discussion: What are your experiences with AI, good or bad? What do teachers and students need to know?

Creativity in Digital Learning and Teaching (Nik Peachey)
Creativity is not only an essential feature of language use, but it will be a key skill for employability over the coming decade. With classrooms moving progressively towards more online delivery, how can we ensure that we don’t lose one of the most fulfilling and engaging aspects of learning?

As for virtual classroom platforms there are a lot of free alternatives to Zoom and the one you choose may well depend on your students access to technology, the model of delivery you want to use and whether you see this as a short or longer term situation.

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