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
	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
	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	9:30 to 10:00	Recap	Recap, setting agenda for the day
	10:00 to 11:00	Group activity	Groups continue working on creating activities for stories Digitizing, filling online forms
	11:00 to 11:30	Common group discussion and peer review	Groups share activities they have created for their allocated stories on the Whatsapp group and
	11:30 to 12	Working with tech	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
		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 Discussion on 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
	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

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

Technology resources

1. AntennaPod video tutorials
2. Classroom Technology Toolkit