Techno-Pedagogy Workshop - Mysuru - July 2024
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
Teacher information form
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Agenda
Time | Session Name | Description/Topics | Resources | |
Day 1 | 9:30 to 10:30 | Introduction and Ice-breaker | Ice-breaker activities | |
10:30 to 11:00 | Program overview | Developing a broader understanding of the program
Brief recap of work done in Resource Creation and Editing workshops |
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11:00 to 11:30 | Setting agenda and expectations | Overview of workshop objectives, agenda | ||
11:30 to 11:45 | Whatsapp Group creation | Scan QR code, ask teachers to share their name, school, grades they teach | ||
11:45 to 1:00 | Myths related to language learning | Discussion on challenges faced in language teaching and myths related to language learning
Re-thinking their pedagogy |
Video on language learning myths | |
1:00 to 2:00 | Lunch and Energiser | |||
2:00 to 2:45 | Story-based pedagogy | Storytelling as pedagogy, Discussion on possible benefits of using audio story-based resources and pedagogy | Video on storytelling as pedagogy | |
2:45 to 3:30 | AntennaPod App and interface | Demo, installation, hands-on practice | Sharing tutorials/ How-To videos | |
3:30 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 10:30 | Recap, agenda setting | Recap, setting agenda for the day | |
10:30 to 11:30 | Demo 1: ‘Transacting audio resources in the classroom’ | Immersive demo session including TPR, pre-listening, during and post-listening activities. | Mentimeter link (poll), slide-deck, sample audio story with session plan+ resources for demo | |
11:30 to 12:30 | Reflecting on demo and introducing structure for activities | 1. Open discussion on demo activities, observations, feedback, brainstorming other ways to use audio-stories
2. Providing structure for designing activities (pre, during, post). 3. Explain the KOER page template |
slide deck on activities done | |
12:30 to 1:00 | Presentation on RAP parameters | Sharing guidelines based on RAP framework (checklist) for activity creation | Handout | |
1:00 to 2:00 | Lunch and Energiser | |||
2:00 to 2:30 | Group activity | In groups of 5, teachers work on creating at least 1 activity of each type ( pre, during, post) keeping in mind the guidelines for a common story | Activity page template | |
2:30 to 2:45 | Group discussion | Plenary discussion on activities created
Discussing challenges faced when creating activities |
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2:45 to 3:45 | Group activity | Developing activities for different stories in smaller groups with support from facilitators | KOER page template. | |
3:45 to 4:15 | Presentation of a few developed activities and discussion keeping school context in mind | |||
Day 3 | 10:00 to 10:20 | Agenda setting | Recap, setting agenda for the day | |
10:20 to 11:30 | Group activity | Groups continue working on creating activities for stories
Digitizing, filling on forms |
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11:30 to | AntennaPod App and interface | Available classroom technology and troubleshooting tips | Help page | |
12:00 to 1 | 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 |
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Lunch and Energiser | ||||
2:00 to 3:00 | Academic support | Discussion on how participants can take these resources and methodology to more teachers and schools
Supporting implementation, cluster sharing meetings, role of RPs and CRPs Training demo, how they will work with teachers to implement 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 |
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3:00 to 4:00 | Reflections & Feedback | Discussion on way forward, reflections and feedback on workshop activities, filling feedback form, group photo | Feedback form |
Resources
- Significance of Listening Skills for Language Acquisition and Learning
- Transacting audio resources in the classroom