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10:00 - 10:15 - Opening/Announcements/Agenda 10:15 - 11:15 - Connecting and sharing experience 11:15 - 11:30 - Coffee Break 11:30 - 11:45 - Discussions 11:45 - 13:00 - Unconference


 * Afternoon**

14:00 - 14:45 - Producing Videos 14:45 - 15:30 - Game to Learn 15:30 - 15:45 - Coffee 15:45 - 16:30 - Tagging 16:30 - 17:00 - Round up session

 Claudia Batista: Producing videos with students to develop critical thinking  Graham Stanley: Game to Learn: using online computer games in the English language classroom  Michael Coghan:

Session notes (Vance) Notes from PCI July 19, 2010 After introductions, questions reiterated ... We break into groups. Mine thinks challenges include > but students can help I asked my group about their internet situations Comments One teacher asked her students what they do online: students parents consider this a waste of time Big challenge: there are many online tools for classroom use, but how to know the tools and how to use them Then I started talking about how students can use internet, how to get into blogging, how to start forming networks via twitter, groups, networks
 * What is the art of teaching with ICTs?
 * Has our role as teachers changed?
 * What benefits, issues and challenges are you faced with?
 * What themes would you like to discuss at this event?
 * convincing colleagues that IT is important
 * Young people are using it, be open to their teaching us
 * New things happening all the time, you learn one thing, there's another,
 * One has one internet equipped room, rotates 3 teachers, plus computer lab
 * Another has wireless but no one brings laptops
 * one uses CDs at home, no internet
 * we can't wait for preparation, we have to teach ourselves
 * Integration in class is a problem, how can we use IT now
 * Orkut,
 * messenger,
 * search with Google,

Bee's report
 * Teachers using the old paradigms, how to find the right tool at the right time.
 * Perception that using technology is not teaching
 * Security and control problems
 * familiarization, culture of sharing not present
 * Need to collaborate, stand on shoulders of giants, connect with others with the same interests
 * practical steps: group forms community of practice to exchange information and train others WHAT, WHY, HOW

Next group
 * authentic interaction / epals
 * encourage participation thru bonuses
 * teacher cares about what students produce

Next group
 * try to find authentic language
 * has teacher role changed: yes, more student centered
 * challenges: too many options, wide variety of tools
 * themes: more interactive technologies, how to focus and learn, how to use student inputs

Next group Graham Stanley's group Willy Cardoso's group Michael Coghlan's / Carla Arena's group Last group
 * Flat classrooms, now possible to interact with students from other countries
 * Now we guide students, don't impose, not center of info as before
 * Teachers having trouble keeping up with new technology
 * Difficult to assess learning (tests don't jibe with digital schools; new ways to assess learning needed
 * We take for granted that students (and teachers) like technology, must consider those that don't
 * Tech is part of students' lives (we need to make it relevant)
 * Focus on pedagogy, not technology (teach content, not the tool)
 * Integrate tech, not that it's an adjunct
 * Benefits: motivation, relevance
 * Use tools students will use outside of class
 * Challenges: tech fails, etc.
 * blogs: read blogs, then comment, eventually create (interact with real people in real world) - business English students use Linked In
 * Students know many things we don't
 * Creation and itegration with publishing
 * Role of teacher: learn tech AND teaching with Technology (a third language)
 * ESP networks not easy to find
 * One computer per student in class presents own challenges
 * How do you correct students
 * Drawing on resources that would normally be outside of educational resources; student rings up used car dealer in USA for example
 * Critical literacy; how to distinguish rubbish
 * Students don't use computers at home, poor bandwidth; students might be resistant to tech for these reasons
 * Cloud computing and teaching - shouldn't be book oriented
 * gauging feedback if we can't see the students we're interacting with
 * goal is learning despite change in technologies

Michael Coglan led the group in unconference mode: elicited the following topics (number of those present voting for that topic)
 * Assessment (12)
 * Time management (7)
 * Selecting / filtering content/tech (25)
 * Empowering teachers thru networks (14)
 * social media (10)
 * CoPs (15)
 * Teaching teens (13)
 * Techophobes to techno users (9)
 * Pedagogy use of tools (18)
 * Teacher training / PD with technolgy (18)

This was narrowed down to 4 groups
 * Selecting / filtering content/tech
 * Empowerment through Networks (CoPs)
 * Pedagogy and tools
 * Teacher training /PD - teaching with technology