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ERIC Number: EJ1274712
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2020
Pages: 8
Abstractor: ERIC
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ISSN: ISSN-1559-663X
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Digital Age Pedagogy: Easily Enhance Your Teaching Practice with Technology
Sartor, Valerie
English Teaching Forum, v58 n3 p2-9 2020
Today, more than ever before, English-language educators recognize the importance of using digital resources to teach students in a variety of modalities. Current circumstances have caused schools, universities, institutes, and colleges all over the world to rethink the way they teach and learn. Teaching with technology has suddenly evolved from a gradual shift toward incorporating digital tools into a roaring avalanche, which can overwhelm educators who have only face-to-face (f2f) teaching experience. This article seeks to encourage teachers who are not yet tech savvy to start researching and using online software resources that link to smartphones (and laptops and tablets) in order to successfully teach English anywhere in the world, remotely or otherwise. It discusses resources in the form of websites, blogs, and digital tools to help teachers successfully transition and adapt their expertise to the current situation. These digital tools are flexible: they can be used for f2f, hybrid f2f/online, or 100 percent online teaching interactions, provided that teachers and students have access to the Internet. After an overview of the rise of instructional technology, the article offers advice for implementing educational technology and introduces various types of free digital tools, with explanations of what they do, why they are important, and how both teachers and students can use them. The article concludes with a short list of free and relevant pedagogical websites.
US Department of State. Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, Office of English Language Programs, SA-5, 2200 C Street NW 4th Floor, Washington, DC 20037. e-mail: etforum@state.gov; Web site: http://americanenglish.state.gov/english-teaching-forum-0
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Audience: Teachers
Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Kazakhstan
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