In his sharing session, Dr. Benjamin Moorhouse, Lecturer at Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong, offers a comprehensive overview of how teachers shifted from face-to-face teaching and adapted to the ‘new normal’ of online teaching. If you’re interested in know what others are doing, or you’d like to know what realistic online teaching options are out there, Ben will address your questions. In this ‘big picture’ overview of how teachers responded, he considers:
- What digital technologies and instructional approaches have teachers in Hong Kong adopted during the emergency remote teaching?
- How have teachers leveraged digital technologies to enhance student engagement and learning?
- What factors influence teachers’ use of technologies?
- What might be considered ‘best practice’ in emergency remote teaching?
Catch Ben’s own introduction/overview in his 4 minute intro on the right. Or head straight to Ben’s entire sharing session talk below.
Ben’s Micro-Introduction
(length: 04:01)
Outline of Ben’s Sharing Session “How English Language Teachers Adapted to Teaching Online during COVID-19: Reconceptualizing Face-to-face Teaching for the Digital Space”
Introduction | 06:27 – 09:10 | Context | Covid-19; remote teaching and learning |
Terms | asynchronous; asynchronous; blended | ||
What digital technologies and instructional approaches have teachers in Hong Kong adopted during emergency remote teaching? / How have teachers leveraged digital technologies to enhance student engagement and learning? | 09:15 – 22:40 | Asynchronous Instruction |
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22:40 – 32:36 | Synchronous Instruction |
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32:36 – 34:17 | Blended Instruction |
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What factors influence teachers’ use of technologies? | 34:17 – 39:15 | school factors; teacher factors; learner factors; technological factors; privacy/safety/security factors | |
What might be considered ‘best practice’ in emergency remote teaching? | 39:15 – 40:50 | ||
Q&A Session | 41:31 – 48:45 | how to help students’ decreased engagement in eLearning | |
48.45 – 50.00 | reference for the presentation | ||
50:00 – 54:24 | how to help students understand teaching content/materials | ||
54:24 – 01:01:11 | how to help students catch up after class suspension | ||
01:03:15 – 01:06:02 | how to encourage co-workers to continue flipped classroom | ||
01:06:02 – 01:06:58 | what is eTraining – Entry Level Training Course | ||
01:06:58 – 01:25:33 | how to solve issues related to flipped lessons/demotivated students/tight class schedule/limited teacher autonomy/different school cultures/language accuracy and fluency/stressful dictation | ||
01:25:33 – 01:26:16 | what is the ideal feedback given by teachers |
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