Techno-Pedagogy Workshop - Belagavi - November 2024

मराठी ಕನ್ನಡ English

Program Overview

With the key objective of enriching students’ language learning experiences by leveraging the power of storytelling as a pedagogical tool along with the newer possibilities that the digital medium offers, the Department of State Educational Research and Training (DSERT) and the Colleges of Teacher Education (CTEs) across Karnataka collaborated with IT for Change to pilot the program ‘Integrating Digital Story-Based Pedagogy in Language Education’ during 2023-24. The program has been designed to aid the process of language teaching-learning and as a result, students’ educational outcomes by focusing on teachers’ professional development (TPD). In year 1, the focus was primarily on building capacities of teachers to create audio resources. Over 200 high-quality audio stories have been produced in Kannada, English, Urdu and Marathi languages and are published as Open Educational Resources for teachers across the state.

The 2024-25 phase of the program aims to focus on enabling classroom level implementation through techno-pedagogy workshops and school level support. It also aims to study the implementation of digital story-based pedagogy in classrooms in order to understand the effectiveness of the methods, successes and challenges of teachers, and identify aspects requiring improvement and redesign.

Workshop Objectives

• To help teachers experience and understand the ways in which audio stories can support language teaching-learning
• To explore how story-pedagogy can help build listening and speaking skills in children
• To understand how multilingual and inclusive teaching strategies can be used in language teaching
• To discuss different types of classroom activities that can be done using mobile-based audio stories

Expected Outcomes

• Teachers enhance their understanding of storytelling as pedagogy
• Teachers reflect on their beliefs and practices related to Marathi Language Teaching
• Teachers experience and understand the potential of audio stories for Marathi language learning
• Teachers explore strategies to develop effective listening to support language acquisition
• Teachers gain familiarity and comfort with using 'Kathe Khajane' for integrating audio stories in teaching-learning
• Teachers develop an implementation plan for their classroom

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Agenda

Day	TIme	Session Name	Description/Topics	Resources
Day 1	10:00 to 11:30	Introduction and Background Program Overview	Understanding purpose and design of the workshop, expectations Broader understanding of the program Brief recap of work done in Resource Creation and Editing workshops	Introduction slides
	11:45 to 12:15	Myths related to language learning	1. Discussion on challenges faced in language teaching and myths related to language learning. 2. Language, thought and development - BICS and CALP	Significance of Listening Skills for Language Acquisition and Learning Video on language learning myths
	12:15 to 1	Storytelling as pedagogy	Storytelling as pedagogy, Discussion on possible benefits of using audio story-based resources and pedagogy	Story telling as pedagogy slides
	1 to 1:45	Lunch
	1:45 to 2:45	Demo 1: ‘Transacting audio resources in the classroom’ Reflecting on demo	Immersive demo session, ask teachers to participate as students. include pre-listening, TPR, during and post-listening activities. Discussion on demo activities, observations, feedback, brainstorming other ways to use audio-stories	Slide-deck for Immersive Audio-story Demo Audio story 'Kachryanche Dhing'
	2:45 to 3:15	Introducing structure for activities	1. Providing structure for designing activities (pre, during, post). 2. Explain the KOER page template	Sharing tutorials/ How-To videos
	3:15 to 3:45	AntennaPod App and interface	Demo, installation, hands-on practice
	3:45 to 4:30	Consolidation and wind up	Form groups and allocate stories. Ask teachers to explore AntennaPod and allocated stories (Identify potential ways using these in the classroom) before coming the next day	Audio stories on Antennapod
Day 2	10:00 to 10:15	Recap, agenda setting	Recap, setting agenda for the day
	10:15 to 10:45	Group activity	Each groups to work on activities for one story (pre, during, post)	Activity page template
	10:45 to 11:45	Group discussion	Plenary discussion on activities created Share guidelines based on RAP framework (checklist) for activity creation
	12 to 1	Group activity	Creating the activities for other stories assigned to the group and digitizing them Includes description in Kathe Khajane and activities in KOER page	KOER page template. Form for digitizing the description and activities
	1:00 to 1:45	Lunch
	1:45 to 2:30	Presentation	Using story in a classroom - Demonstration by a teacher
	2:30 to 4:30	CEQUE session	Digital resources for Marathi Language Teaching
Day 3	10 to 10:15	Agenda setting	Recap, setting agenda for the day
	10:15 to 11:45	Group activity	Groups continue working on creating activities for stories
	11:45 to 12:30	Presentation	Using story in a classroom - Demonstration by a teacher
	12:30 to 1:15	Implementation action planning	Teachers make a plan for themselves on what they can implement in their classrooms in the next 2 months. Plan to include stories chosen, tentative schedule, frequency, relevant grade, relevant activities. Common discussion on plans made by teachers, feasibility, challenges they anticipate and how they can be mitigated
	1:15 to 2:00	Lunch
	2:00 to 2:45	Tech integration in classroom	Available classroom technology and troubleshooting tips	Classroom Technology toolkit
	2:45 to 3:30	Academic support	What can be shared in cluster meeting? Ask participants to discuss how these resources and methodology can be shared with more teachers and schools. What takeaways from the workshop can be shared during cluster meetings? What sessions can be taken? What would be roles of RP teachers and CRPs? Consolidate inputs from teachers
	3:45 to 4:30	Reflections & Feedback	Filling feedback form, reflections and feedback on workshop activities, discussion on way forward, group photo	Feedback form

Resources

1. Significance of Listening Skills for Language Acquisition and Learning
2. Transacting audio resources in the classroom
3. Storytelling as pedagogy - Video Resource
4. Storytelling as pedagogy - PDF
5. Integrating Digital Story-Based Pedagogy in Language Education | Teachers feedback - With Subtitles
6. Digital resources for Marathi Language Teaching
7. Guidelines based on RAP framework (checklist) for activity creation

Technology resources

Install AntennaPod, subscribing stories form Kathe Khajane

1. AntennaPod Video tutorials
2. Classroom Technology Toolkit
3. Buy Speakers and projectors

Workshop feedback form

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