Techno-Pedagogy Workshop for English Language Learning - 2024-2025

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, inclusive and innovative 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

Enhancement of teachers understanding of storytelling as pedagogy
Teachers reflect on their beliefs and practices related to English Language Teaching
Teachers experience and understand the potential of audio stories for English language learning
Teachers explore strategies to develop effective listening to support language acquisition
Gain familiarity and comfort with using AntennaPod for integrating audio stories in teaching-learning
Develop an implementation plan for their classroom

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Agenda

	Time	Session Name	Description/Topics	Resources
Day 1	10:00 to 11:30	Introduction and 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	Introductory slide-deck (En, Kn); Teachers' feedback video
	11:30 to 11:45	TEA BREAK
	11:45 to 12:15	Myths related to language learning	Discussion on challenges faced in language teaching (related to content, pedagogy and technology) and Myths related to language learning	Chintana Manthana slides Video on language learning myths
	12:15 to 1 PM	Storytelling as pedagogy	Storytelling as pedagogy, Discussion on possible benefits of using audio story-based resources and pedagogy; Exploring Storyweaver repository	Story telling as pedagogy slides; Storyweaver.org.in
	1:00 to 1:45 PM	LUNCH
	1:45 to 2:45 PM	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 'Cloud of Trash'
	2:45 to 3:15 PM	Introducing structure for activities	1. Providing structure for designing activities (pre, during, post). 2. Explain the KOER page template	Activity page for the story 'Cloud of Trash'
	3:15 to 3:45	AntennaPod App and interface	Demo, installation, hands-on practice	Sharing tutorials/ How-To videos
	3:45 to 4:30	Consolidation and wind up	Recap and prep for next day Teachers to explore AntennaPod stories 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	Make groups of 6. ask groups to prepare at least 1 activity of each type (pre, during, post) for the common story Share guidelines based on RAP framework (checklist) for activity creation	Activity page template; Handout
	10:45 to 11:15	Group discussion	Plenary discussion on activities created Discussing challenges faced when creating activities
	11:15 to 11:30	TEA BREAK
	11:30 to 1	Group activity	Create groups of 3 and assign different stories to each group and have them create activities for each story. Facilitators to support groups. At the end of the activity, each group to have a digital version of KOER page content. Session ends with a plenary.	KOER page template.(Google form or Writing template)
	1:00 to 1:45	LUNCH
	1:45 to 2:30	Group activity	Building language fluency - challenges faced by teachers, some tips, tools and strategies
	2:30 to 2:45	Group discussion	Exploring effective read-aloud strategies	Video on Read-aloud Strategies (bilingual)
	2:45 to 3:45	Group activity	Exploring story selection and story narration guidelines with hands-on practice
	3:45 to 4:00	Wrapping up for the day	Recap Teachers to explore record some stories before coming the next day
Day 3	10:00 to 10:30	Recap	Recap, setting agenda for the day, listening to recorded stories
	10:30 to 11:30	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.
	11:30 to 11:45	TEA BREAK
	11:45 to 1	Plenary	Common discussion on plans made by teachers, feasibility, challenges they anticipate and how they can be mitigated
	1:00 to 1:45	Lunch
	2:00 to 3:30	Working with tech	Available classroom technology and troubleshooting tips	Help page
	3:30 to 4:15	Reflections & Feedback	Discussion on way forward, reflections and feedback on workshop activities, filling feedback form, group photo	Feedback form

Resources

Technology resources

Install AntennaPod, subscribing stories form Kathe Khajane

Workshop photo's

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