State-level Techno-pedagogy Workshop for Language Teachers

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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.

In its current phase, the program aims to focus on resource creation, as well as 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. This State-level Techno-pedagogy Workshop for Language Teachers, which is being conducted as a Language Development Workshop through Stories under the Language/ English (Language Cell) at DSERT, aims to achieve the following objective and outcomes:

Workshop Objectives

  • To help teachers experience and understand the ways in which audio stories can support language teaching-learning
  • To explore how story-based pedagogy can help build listening skills in children
  • To understand how multilingual, 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 Language Teaching
  • Teachers experience and understand the potential of audio stories for 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 share feedback and constructive suggestions for application and implementation across the State

Teacher information form

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Agenda

Time Session Name Description/Topics Resources
10:00 to 11:00 AM Introduction and Program overview 1. Understanding purpose and design of the workshop, expectations

2. Broader understanding of the program

3. Brief recap of work done in Resource Creation, Editing and Techno-pedagogy workshops

Introductory slide-deck (En, Kn)
11:00 to 11:15 AM TEA BREAK
11:15 AM to 12:15 PM Understanding Language Learning 1. Discussion on challenges faced in language teaching and learning

2. Language learning theories (brief)

3. Storytelling as Pedagogy (Building story appreciation)

4. Story appreciation and BICS and CALP

1. Exploring Storytelling as Pedagogy and Kathe Khajane for Language Learning (slide-deck)

2. Video on language learning myths

12:15 to 1:00 PM Introduction to Storyweaver and Significance of Listening Skills for Language Learning 1. Storytelling as pedagogy in action (demo using Storyweaver)

2. Discussion on possible benefits of using audio story-based resources and pedagogy, How listening helps build other skills

Story telling as pedagogy slides;

Storyweaver.org.in

1:00 to 2:00 PM LUNCH
2:00 to 2:45 PM Immersive Demo: ‘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 3:30 PM AntennaPod App and interface Demo, installation, hands-on practice 1. Installation link : https://kathe-khajane.teacher-network.in/help/

2. Tutorials/ How-To videos

3. Activity page for the story 'Cloud of Trash'

3:30 to 5:00 PM Consolidation and wind up Quick recap, feedback sharing, way forward Audio stories on Antennapod

Resources

  1. Significance of Listening Skills for Language Acquisition and Learning
  2. Transacting audio resources in the classroom

Technology resources

About installing AntennaPod, subscribing stories form Kathe Khajane

  1. AntennaPod Video tutorials
  2. Classroom Technology Toolkit
  3. Links for purchasing speakers and projectors
  4. Audacity software to create/edit audio files - installation and tutorial page (English version)
  5. Audacity software to create/edit audio files - installation and tutorial page (Kannada version)
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