Teaching languages in the digital era: the best apps, AI tools and ICT solutions for learning languages (Palermo)
This course allows participants to gain an outlook on best apps, web platforms, AI-powered resources to empower and support language learning. Through a hands-on approach and learning-by-doing methodology, participants will develop concrete ICT and digital skills that they’ll be able use in the classroom to teach languages.
Description
- Locations: Bologna, Palermo, Tenerife
- Target Audience: teachers, trainers, educational counsellors, career counsellors, school psychologists, headmasters, school management and administrative staff
- Preregistration: Online in the course webpage
- Related courses: New technologies, apps and social media in the classroom, Integrating ICT and new technologies into teaching and education, Discover the best apps for E-learning, Distance learning and Web Design, ChatGpt and AI for teachers: Artificial Intelligence in schools and education
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Learning objectives
- Get an overview of the most important new technologies and of the growing trend on using ICT and digital resources in language teaching and learning;
- Get to know the best apps, web platforms, ICT resources and AI powered tools for learning languages;
- Learn how to use digital flashcards to recap and extend vocabulary;
- Learn how to create and use multimedia content to teach a foreign or native language;
- Learn how to create digital games to foster language learning;
- Learn how to digitally assess and recap vocabulary and grammar;
- Learn how to use ICT tools to make learning a first or second language more effective, motivating and interactive;
- Exchange best practices and share experiences with participants and staff coming throughout Europe;
- Make contacts with individuals and organizations working in the education field in Europe through everyday cooperation and networking activities.
Standard Daily Programme
Sunday- Participants arrival
- Networking activities
- Cultural activities in the city
- Whiteboards to implement speaking sessions
- Sharing and storing ideas with students
- Designing a collaborative wall for language learning
- Impressing and engaging the audience with powerful presentations
- Using AI-powered tools to create personalized material
- Testing and practicing some of the most common game basedlearning tools
- AI-Powered lesson planning for language teachers
- ChatGPT to promote engaging and adaptive language learning
- Spelling, writing, recapping vocabulary and grammar digitally
- Speaking skills with the use of digital debates
- Creating a lesson around a video
- Digital flashcards
- Review of additional tools, apps and AI-powered resources for learning languages
- Course wrap-up and final evaluation
- Validation of learning outcomes and certification ceremony
- Participants departure
Methodology & assessment
The standard methodology is highly practical and participative with hands-on approach that comprises real-job examples, case studies examination and simulations. We embrace collaborative working methods that foster mutual learning and cooperation among participants. Our focus is on transferring knowledge and skills which are applicable to real contexts and/or in the classroom. The pedagogical methods that we use are based upon experiential learning, group and peer activities, learning-by-doing and best practices’ exchange.
We support our partners in every step of the course: from application, to preparation, to monitoring and evaluation and collection of all final documentation. Morning wrap-up and brief daily evaluations are foreseen to ensure the learning programme is finely tailored to participants' needs. At the end of each course, we provide participants with supporting material and multiple dissemination evidence.
We commit to make participants feel at home during our courses, catering for their personal, practical and educational needs. Indeed, in addition to delivering the training, we provide board and lodging in the same hotel where the course takes place, thus ensuring the best comfort and coziness as well as effective time management.
We organize optional social, networking and cultural activities in order to give participants the opportunity to know the venue’s culture as well as to exchange best-practice and establish professional links. The training and staff team is multinational thus giving a full European dimension to the course.
Certification details
Pricing, packages and other information
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Package contents:AccommodationCourse
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Additional information:
Teachers, trainers, headmasters and any other staff of education organizations are eligible to receive an Erasmus+ grant covering all the costs to attend our training courses including travel, board and lodging, cultural activities and all fees. Our training courses are tailored to be fully funded by Erasmus+ and we offer different options to ensure the best comfort and quality at a price that is within the Erasmus+ grant.
We are proud to tailor our training courses to both participants' learning and practical needs and to ease your participation at our training courses, we will gladly take care of all the practical arrangements. If you prefer, you can take care of some of the practical arrangements by yourself (e.g. meals, local transport...), though we will manage the organization of your accommodation in order to ensure optimal logistic organization, safety and time-efficiency. We always provide board and lodging in the same hotel in which we organize the course thus ensuring optimal comfort and potential of networking with the fellow participants. Read more about how we take care of your subsistence and practical arrangements.
The most common option that we offer to schools and organisations in 2023 costs EUR 1130 and includes course fee, certification and support fee, accommodation in single room, 2 coffee breaks per day, 3 networking meals, walking tour in the venue’s city, a sum-up dissemination video. For schools sending 2 or more participants we can offer accommodation in double rooms and we can provide as well accommodation for people or relatives accompanying the participants.
When attending our courses, we recommend you to request 9 days of individual support for your subsistence costs, 7 days for the course plus 2 additional days for the travel. You can read here more about the Erasmus+ funding.
Additional information
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Language:English
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Target audience ISCED:Primary education (ISCED 1)Lower secondary education (ISCED 2)Upper secondary education (ISCED 3)
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Target audience type:TeacherHead Teacher / PrincipalHigher education institution staff
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Learning time:25 hours or more