gramming - promoting critical thinking on social networks

#Gramming#Promoting #CriticalThinking

on #SocialNetworks

Speakers:@MiguelPerez@JohannesRojas @MiguelFrontado

What is #Instagram?

Instagram is a #socialmedia platform where you can share

#photos and 60-second #videoclips with written comments.

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#Instagram for ELT and ELL

The social appeal The visual context

The instant and mobile access

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#Instagram #Ideas for ELLs and ELTs

● Set-up a class account that you can make private for parents and students.

● Post regular challenges for each unit or chapter. ● You can post image challenges for students to

show you they understand the material.● You can post video challenges.

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● You can use images as writing prompts for your students.

● Post an image. Have students participate in a chain story inspired by the image.

● Post a collage and have students create a 6 word, 10 word, or 20 word story.

● Post a collage about the topic you are studying and have students make guesses about the subject matter.

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#Instagram #Ideas for ELLs and ELTs

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● If you are studying a country, post a collage of various characteristics of that place then have students guess what this country could be and add a fact or image about that place.

● Have students post their own collages of what they observe. They can take several photos of an animal in its habitat then post the collage with their observations.

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#Instagram #Ideas for ELLs and ELTs

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● Students can post a collage of various close-up pieces of an image. Their friends try to figure out what the image is and post a fact or question about it.

● Have students act like photojournalists where they observe an event and describe it in a series of images within their collages.

● Post clues to a mystery or post clues to a scavenger hunt.

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#Instagram #Ideas for ELLs and ELTs

https://www.slideshare.net/ShellTerrell/teaching-with-instagram

● Have students role-play a character from their readings.

● Students can do video commentaries.● Students can do book trailers.● Students can work on timed TOEFL Speaking tasks.

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#Instagram #Ideas for ELLs and ELTs

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Our Experience

Venezuelan students are used to deal daily with different mobile apps and social networks, so we

have managed to work out different activities where reaching students’

interest has allowed us to see language improvements and self-awareness during the process.

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Interconnecting activities throughout Internet

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Keeping records of their achievements

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Reflecting on the Daily Learning Process

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Fostering Respect and Critical Thinking on different topics

What did you learn today? Teacher’s Actions Students’ Performance Notes

Take a picture of students’ class and post it on Instagram -

You need permission from parents and students themselves.

Tag students on the post and ask them:

1) Place at least one thing theylearned in class.

2) Make a comment or question toone peer.

Answer the teachers’ questions not only based in language but also about the topics discussed in class, for example: culture.

Interact with peers; ask them questions or comment their post.

Answering teachers’ question will make students:

Reflect on their learning (What do I know? – What I did not know that I know now?, etc.)

Develop self-awareness of the whole learning process.

Keep track of knowledge even outside the classroom.

Working with peers will make students: Analyze different statements form their peers to provide feedback.

State their own opinion agreeing with or against others’ points of view.

Reconstruct knowledge from peer work and achieve new learning levels.

Provide feedback to each student so everyone pays attention to corrections, further questions or analysis and teacher’s interaction outside the class.

Revise personal feedback and others’ too in order to improve language production, management and performance.

Interactions (main point of social networks) will create a smooth environment where students will produce language stress-free.

Let’s Review!

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Language Skills and Critical Thinking Levels Reached

Reading Skills

Posts on instagram make students read different comments and replies, not just from the teacher himself but from their peers.

Reading different posts will let them confirm what they know about language (grammar, vocabulary, etc.) and learn things they may not know and can get from their peers and teacher.

It is also a very unique and innovative way to foster reading since it is one of the most neglected skills by students.

Writing Skills

Making their own post will let them produce in a written way the language that needs to be constantly practiced.

Also, it will increase their ability of connecting ideas in logical order to express opinions and different statements to construct solid ideas on different matters and topics.

Critical Thinking Levels

Knowledge and Application: Students use language they have already mastered to create logical responses to prompts provided by the teacher according to their experience in class. Understanding also plays a major role since they need to comprehend what it is required in order to provide what it is expected.

Analysis, Judging and Creating: Students revise others’ comments and posts and they internalize the information to create their own view about it and finally provide a response to peers by producing one question or comment to foster the interaction and language construction cooperatively

Final Thoughts – Our View

● There is big advantage in bringing social network use to language teaching and learning.

● Students will work stress-free since language will be produced in a non-conventional environment.

● Language Skills and Critical Thinking levels can be worked out when teachers carefully plan activities and carry them out.

● Teachers need to provide a risk-free environment where students can work. 17

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Miguel Perez@maperezramosmiguelperez.uc@gmail.com

Johannes Rojas@jodaro87johanes.d.rojas@gmail.com

Miguel Frontado@miguelfrontadomiguelfrontado1@gmail.com