LLTCon ROOT talks II Interviewed by Kirsten Winkler on google hangouts about teaching approaches.

1. Technology & the Brain

2. What is the most important
question facing teachers?
According to Einstein
the ultimate question
should be…..
“ Is this a friendly
universe”?
 Are you defensive
or creative?

3. In a
nutshell
Is this a brain-friendly learning
environment?
 Create or wait??
 We‟ve got the tools
Now what
should we do
with them?
Create, share, influence comunity = learn

4. Feelings drive
learning
Feelings
Mindset
Spirit
MATTER!!
than you, me or
ANYone else

5. How far
can you
reach?
“ The arts aren‟t
just important
because they improve
maths scores.
They‟re important because
they speak
to parts of children‟s being
which are
otherwise untouched.”
Ken Robinson
Layers of experience

6. Come on baby light my
fire!!
Play
Laughter
Senses
Exaggeration
Imagination
Colours

7. Does it
have to
be like
this?
Cliché

8. Fossilisation
 We repeat the same
mistakes so many
times that we may
as well call it
tradition………
Stuck in the moment
U2
Music quiz

9. Story- telling
Paint
Production
Inspiration
Imagination
Creative fluency development

10. Fully
engaged
Stories
 Write stories with
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
new vocabulary
Context
Creativity
Memorising
Self-expression
100 proficiency words
in a gangster story

11. Stories with „hair‟ idioms
Who are
our
students?
Read the story
here

12. Make it
real
Comics
 Visual
 Students create their



own
Social/emotional
learning embedded in
stories
Grammar and
vocabulary
Coursework filed in
comic form

13. Comics
 The question of what a
successful government
policy should entail
dogs administrations
all over the world.
ISSUE
STATEMENT
REALITY
The question of……
is a good expression
for all topics and essay
introductions

14. Mindmapping

15. Planting ideas

16. All
Students
are
poets
Poetry

17. Music
Music
poster

18. Music
poster

19. Try a
Clean
Slate!!
Some tools for self-expression
Eduglogster
imind
Mindmaple
Prezi
Animoto
Go animate

20. Platforms with
school
Where
accounts
schools
are
welcome
Learning environments
 Artistic platforms
Eduglogster
Story Bird
 Learning spaces
Moodle
Club EFL
Bitstrips
Edmodo
Make Belief Comix
OpenClass
Pixton comics
Wikis
Go animate
Second Life
Blogs

21. Learning
goes
viral?
Communities

23. That’s
all
folks
Technology is beautiful!!
Fourteen articles
about creativity,
technology and
learning

24. Images
created
by:
 Prezi
 Wordle
 imind
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