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Going Mobile: Teaching with Hand-Held Devices  by Nicky Hockly and Gavin Dudeney, Delta Publishing, (December) 2014.

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Gavin Dudeney - Of Big Data and Little Data: How Numbers Have (Almost) Ruined Everything

Notes I took at the opening plenary of the 2014 Digital ELT Conference organised by the LTSIG of IATEFL and MEI (with the help of ELT Ireland). 22 November 2014

Living by Numbers Quantity shouts louder than quality. Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, blogs live off numbers, likes. www.duolingo.com offers up a variety of odd translations: the lion eats the children.

Living by Numbers Monty Python Hungarian Phrase Book http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YYM209GJoE God in Numbers How we all got carried away.

Drowning by Numbers How numbers gave edtech a bad name.

Some writers on the subject who have a healthy scepticism: Neil Selwyn - academic Monash webpage: http://goo.gl/GnxUSJ Edtech and Global Issues interview lTSIG & GISIG Educational industrial complex Scott Thornbury - writer A-Z ELT Blog Blog: http://goo.gl/HCdZ3i Facebook: http://goo.gl/jRhV5B Website: http://goo.gl/e2BzvA An A-Z of ELT: http://goo.gl/6w82iR Philip Kerr - writer Adaptive Learning Blog: http://goo.gl/4ZC4Jp Free ebook. http://goo.gl/mcgbll

Facebook: http://goo.gl/XLteW0

Introduction to Big Data: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs-Mk2Nzpu4

Hugh Dellar Blog: https://hughdellar.wordpress.com/

20 Things in 20 Years: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=755gblfOjks&list=HL1397536449

John Hattie Twitter: http://goo.gl/LPZf9l

Website: http://goo.gl/sVeBLl

TEDx: http://goo.gl/2V5zw4 Facebook: http://goo.gl/U8nGXN John Hattie’s book: Visible Learning for Teachers

We should focus on the greatest source of variance that can make the difference - the teacher..... We need to direct attention at higher quality teaching. Workshop Task: Can you put the factors contributing to good learning in the order in which learners ranked them? Simulations / Games. 0.90 Formative Feedback. 0.82 Quality of Teaching. 0.75 Small Group Learning 0.61 Web-Based Learning. 0.49 Distance Education. 0.48 Classroom Discussion. 0.37 Computer-Assisted Instruction. 0.33 Problem Solving Teaching. 0.18 Teacher Credibility  0.11 The correct order and rankings are as follows: Teacher Credibility  0.90 Classroom Discussion. 0.82 Formative Feedback. 0.75 Problem Solving Teaching. 0.61 Small Group Learning 0.49 Quality of Teaching. 0.48 Computer-Assisted Instruction. 0.37 Simulations / Games. 0.33 Web-Based Learning. 0.18 Distance Education. 0.11 NB. Hattie uses data from pre-internet days. Hattie declares that use of computers is most effective... - with a diversity of teaching strategies - after teacher training in appropriate use - when there are multiple opportunities for learning - when peer learning is optimised - when feedback is optimised Away from the Numbers Edtech reclaimed. See that 4 of the top 5 relate to edtech: Classroom Discussion. 0.82 Formative Feedback. 0.75 Problem Solving Teaching. 0.61 Small Group Learning 0.49

Here are some authors who have been reclaiming edtech (little data) for ELT.

Classroom Discussion - Nicky Hockly Online Teaching tips: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEa-2S1oOg0 Nicky's blog: http://www.emoderationskills.com/

Problem-Solving Teaching Koenraad et al Webquests http://www.theconsultants-e.com/resources/webquests/repository.aspx

Small Group Learning - Carol Rainbow For more on using mobiles in class: http://www.theconsultants-e.com/training/resources/m-learning.aspx

Formative Feedback - Russell Stanard http://goo.gl/8VOs5m

More info to follow up on can be found at: http://goo.gl/CBjys