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You could use this list with students and get them to watch some videos from TedTalks with the sound off and just focus on the speakers' hands to see how they use them.
Then get them to listen and see if they can connect the use of the hand gestures to when and why they are using them and the kinds of expressions they are using.
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Regardless of the subject or age group we teach, most of us would like our students to think more critically about what they are learning and how it relates to the world around them.
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Cognitive dissonance is the mental discomfort experienced when holding conflicting beliefs, values, or behaviours. It often leads individuals to reduce this discomfort by changing their attitudes, behaviours, or beliefs, or by adding new thoughts that justify the inconsistency.
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In a previous post, I discussed the importance of Empathy Mapping and why cultivating empathy, both in ourselves as educators and in our students, is essential. In this article, I want to revisit the concept of empathy mapping and explore how incorporating AI prompts can streamline the process, making it easier to create empathy maps and derive meaningful conclusions from them.
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Having a real teacher who believes in you, even when others have given up on you, can have a profound and life changing impact on your life. I don’t really think that something that’s programmed to believe in you will ever be able to have the same impact.
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As remote and hybrid teaching situations continue into the next year and learning and working from home become more permanent, we can see that there are a whole range of new tools and improvements that we can exploit to enhance the way we deliver remote and blended learning.
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In this article I would like to share a few simple activities that we can use with visual narrative to encourage students to put themselves into the lives, minds and feelings of others and to see beyond the surface appearance. I believe that visual narrative and particularly videos without spoken dialogue as an excellent medium for the development of empathy. Narrative is designed to touch our emotions and help us identify with characters that may be very different from ourselves.
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One thing that we could do to help change the mindset of students without trying to influence their beliefs and to defuse tensions that may materialize within our classrooms is to stop having classroom debates and start helping students understand how to engage in dialogue.
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This text has been adapted from the chapter on conceptual models in my e-book – Digital Tools for Teachers – Trainers’ Edition. It’s one of a number of models presented in the chapter that can be used to […]
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It always amazes me that despite being the world’s largest video library, YouTube is still blocked or banned in many educational institutions. As a resource for learning about almost anything, but particularly for language learning it is an […]
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