A slide presentation showing how cognitive enhancers can be incorporated into 2nd language learning and an overview of digital literacy.

1. The Flying Chair Syndrome
The future of digital literacy
Revolutionizing
Teaching
English Language
For the ASEAN Integration
Prepared by:
Willard Van De Bogart - Language Institute, Bangkok, University
For
Culi’s International Seminar 2013 – November 21-22

2. Revolutionizing English Language Teaching For The
ASEAN Integration
Learning methodologies for the digital classroom

3. Do we need ESL teachers?
Iconic
Instruction
Introduction

4. BANGKOK: -- In a 60-nation ranking released
last week, the Education First Institute put
Thailand 55th on the English Proficiency Index
.
BU DNA Professor Award - New breed of teacher

5. Students flying in their chairs
100% of all my students use smart phones or tablet computers

6. The flying chair syndrome
Where are the students going?

7. A student’s world, a teacher’s nightmare

8. A Universe of Cognitive Enhancers
More places than I can imagine

9. Exercise 1: Teaching in cyber space
Your first class

10. Step 1. The clean slate
Comfort zone
The set up

11. Step 2. Symbol construction
Trigger cognitive activity
Instill curiosity

12. Step 3. Definition construction
I have no
Idea what
thoughts are
going on
in the
Insert a visual cue
Student’s mind.

13. Step 4. Identity construction
Provide for realistic imagination
Open resources for ideation

14. Step 5. Provide a realistic setting
Bridge the two worlds: Virtual and Real

15. Step 6. Mirror the setting
Mirrored realities - static

16. Step 6. Mirror the setting
Mirrored realities - active

17. Exercise 2: The era of Digital Literacy
Where are we going with digital literacy?

18. Definition of digital literacy
• “Digital literacy is the ability to understand
information – more important – to evaluate
and integrate information in multiple
formats that the computer (digital assistant) can
deliver. Being able to evaluate and
interpret information is critical. You can’t
understand on the internet without evaluating its
sources and placing it in context”.
Paul Gilister
Culturally different digital competencies – concept approaches, attitudes
Digital usage – application of digital competencies
Digital transformation – creative involvement in the digital domain.

19. Basics of digital literacy?
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Be proficient with tools
Cross cultural connections
Collaborative problem solving
Strengthen independent thinking
Manage, analyze, synthesize multiple streams of simultaneous info.
Create, critique, analyze and evaluate multimedia texts.
Share information within global communities.

20. The Learning Cycle for digital literacy
Digital literacy for in-service teachers is the ability to use digital artefacts as an
integrated part of their pedagogical content knowledge and be aware of what
implications this has for teaching, learning strategies.
Krumsvik, Norway

21. Taxonomy of Learning

22. Digital literacy and cognitive enhancement?
A game or not a game?

23. Digital literacy and Cognitive Interoperability
Teaching scenario:
1.You walk into
the classroom.
2. Every student
is text messaging.
3.You are another
fish in the sea.
Welcome to decentralized asynchronous learning?

24. Digital Literacy and Connectivism
Complex learning in a rapidly changing social digital world.

26. Conclusion to Connectivism chart
Relative diversity of the group was a source of growth,
enrichment and cognitive dissonance – in short, each
person was important to the learning environment.
The idea that learning occurred as a result of this
diversity is in line with network theory and specifically the
theory of interpersonal ties, which postulates that “weak
ties” between individuals are more likely to facilitate the
flow of new information than “strong ties”.

27. Exercise 3: Multiple Literacy

28. From Boston to Thailand

29. This is what they are saying
Keys to 21st Century Learning
• To learn collaboration, work in teams.
• To learn critical thinking, take on complex problems.
• To learn oral communication, present.
• To learn written communication, write.
• To learn technology, use technology.
• To develop citizenship, take on civic and global
issues.
• To learn about careers, do internships.
• To learn content, research and do all of the above.

30. Digital Literacy is less about tools and more about
thinking.
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Lets Re-mix this idea:
1. Language – print and texting, as well as visual, and
multimedia.
2. Information – searching, tagging, critical thinking
and filtering.
3. Connections – social skills and networking,
collaboration, digital safety and intercultural awareness.
4. (RE)Design – remix literacy, copyright awareness

31. What is cognitive enhancement?
• Impacting both the task and the learner using
cognitive strategies is referred to as Cognitive
enhancement.
• From a teachers perspective:
1. Evaluate the content
2. Determine the necessary approaches to
learning for student success.
3. Using instructional supports to help students
apply techniques and strategies

32. Exercise 4: Iconic Teaching Techniques
• The main objective behind this technique is to
find a way in which a student can quickly grasp
an idea related to any subject and at the same
time allowing the student to apply that
understanding to the subject they are studying
and help them learn more about it. Iconic
Teaching Technique incorporates a multi tasking
approach as well as a multiple stimulus
approach by offering many different ways for a
student to relate to a subject

33. Cognitive stimulation techniques
Developing higher order functions

34. ITT Example
• "Green technology is a continuous evolving group of
methods and materials from techniques for generating
energy to non-toxic products."
Color association with objects for Green Technology

35. What is cognitive development?
• Sorting objects by one characteristic – by color
• Classifying - architecture and ecology
• Understanding the objects can be changed or regrouped
• Following a pattern
• Sequencing pictures to tell a story
• Putting together a puzzle

36. Scaffolding – solving the learning puzzle
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Lev Vygotsky defines scaffolding instruction as the “role of teachers and others in
supporting the learner’s development and providing support structures to get to that
next stage or level”.

37. How will we adjust to digital literacy?
In most languages there’s
a sharp distinction between
programs, and data, and
the output of programs.
Not so in the Wolfram
Language. It’s all completely
fluid. Data becomes
algorithmic. Algorithms
become data. There’s no
distinction needed between
code and data. And
everything
becomes both intrinsically
scriptable, and intrinsically
interactive. And there’s both
a new level of
interoperability, and a new
level of modularity.
WolframAlpha’s New Computational Knowledge Engine

38. Cognitive development - Classification
WolframAlpha
app
Students must learn
How to combine
information
from different disciplines

39. The next generation of digital processing
Google Glass

40. Preparing for Literacy

41. A new era of education is before us
Thank you