Have you heard about the metaverse or virtual reality? ‘Silly question’ you will say. ‘I can’t hear it anymore! Why should I care about cartoon worlds, avatars, digital fashion, and cryptocurrency as a language teacher?’ Or perhaps you actually have…
Technical definition …a new iteration of the World Wide Web which incorporates concepts such as decentralization, blockchain technologies, and token-based economics. Practical Web 1.0 – read Web 2.0 – read, write Web3* – read, write, own (*not to be confused with Web 3.0) Characteristics…
It sounds like an easy question, but it requires you to think deeply about what your purpose in life is and what your values are. Even if you want to define your professional mission only, you cannot do it without…
Tataaam! Drumroll! 🥁A historic moment! I participated in the first ever real MOOC in 2008. The famous CK08 course called ‘Connectivism and Connective Knowledge’. * And now, I’m participating in: The world’s first university delivered MOOC taught 100% on-chain and…
It makes total business sense to do this in order to generate additional income from secondary sales of used books, but I didn’t expect NFT adoption in the publishing industry to happen so fast. My thoughts: ✅ I’m wondering whether Pearson will…
I thoroughly enjoyed chatting about online immersive learning with Graham Stanley, who invited me to his Morning Break radio show. We talked about some of my favourite topics: ???? Immersive language learning in virtual reality???? The metaverse???? The need for digital skills…
The 7th Future of English language Teaching Conference (FOELT) took place on Saturday, 11th June, 2022. The abstract of my talk There has been a lot of talk about the metaverse in the past year, and language teachers, teacher trainers…
Read part one on note-taking in virtual reality first. Writing (and also reading) is difficult in fully immersive virtual reality because the user is wearing a headset. While engineers are working on the technology and coming up with solutions, I…
Teresa Bestwick from The TEFL Development Hub kindly invited me to give a presentation as part of their Facebook Live Webinar series. I happily accepted because, being a language teacher myself, I like talking to teachers about emerging technologies, in…
Note-taking is good for learning (Friedman, n.d.). We learned how to do it at school and university, and we teach it to our students. In language lessons, teachers write up language and grammar they want to teach on the board,…