Speaker
Description
This workshop will provide participants with a background on contemporary practices in English language, teaching, including practices related to educational technology enhanced through AI and social engagement practices associated with what is often called the digital wild. These kinds of practices are what users across the Internet do when they are engaging with one another in social media and other Internet based platforms Some of these topics will include gaming and game vacation, digital storytelling, fanfiction, using aspects of popular culture and among others, these practices have been used to support The movement that is happening across Vietnam right now around using English as a medium of instruction by creating engaging in meaningful interactive, immersive experiences Around any topic and in any discipline, we can help make learning more meaningful and compelling the workshop will focus on a variety of practical hands-on skills, as well as an opportunity to reflect on how we may adjust our instruction in the future as future technologies and associated social and communication practices emerge.
Biography
Greg Kessler has published extensively and delivered invited talks around the world. He is a professor of Innovative Learning Design & Technology in the Educational Studies department at Ohio University. His research addresses technology, teaching, learning, culture and language with an emphasis on teacher preparation and curricular design. He has held transformative leadership positions, including president of the computer assisted language instruction consortium (CALICO), president of the Ohio teachers of English to speakers of other languages (TESOL) and chair of the TESOL CALL interest section. He has been an editor for numerous monographs, special issues and serial publications, including the TESOL Encyclopedia of English Language Teaching, CALICO Equinox book series, Advances in CALL Practice & Research, and the Language Teaching & Technology forum in the journal Language Learning & Technology among others. He has most recently been Fulbright Canada Research Chair of Digital Technologies and Sustainability in the Werklund School of Education at the University of Calgary.
