Dr. Robert J. Blake
Hybrid: the New Normal for L2 Teaching
Lessons Learned during COVID
11:00-12:00 PDT on Saturday, July 24, 2021
Session Chair: Dr. Gaye Walton-Price
Click this link to join the session. https://ucdavis.zoom.us/j/94236082121
Raffle: Brave New Digital Classroom—Technology and Foreign Language Learning by Dr. Robert J. Blake and Dr. Gabriel Guillén
Dr. Robert Blake is a Distinguished Professor of Spanish (emeritus), the current UC Davis Language Center director, and a member of the North American Academic of the Spanish Language since 2004. He developed online courses for first- and second-year Spanish taught across the UC system, co-designed Arabic Without Walls and Punjabi Without Walls, co-authored Brave New Digital Classroom, 3rd edition (2020, GUP), and co-authored El español y la lingüística aplicada (2016, GUP).
DESCRIPTION: Out of the necessities imposed by COVID this last year, everyone did their best at delivering online language instruction, often forcing traditional classroom techniques into the digital mold, whether or not they were a good fit. Most of us, students included, got zoomed out of our minds and now wish to get back to the in-person learning. But we all learned new digital tricks from this experience that will move language education in the future to some type of hybrid mix of digital and in-person modes. We will distill what some of the good that should be maintained from the online experience and show how these techniques fit with what we know about the inherent traits of our students as speakers of tongues, analyzers, tool-users, socially motivated beings, game players and, above all else, storytellers. We will demonstrate good digital practices that support interactive and student-centered learning with both synchronous and asynchronous activities—the new normal for L2 teaching.
SYNCHRONOUS TRICKS:
POLLS: an example from ZOOM or Socrative.com
(enter as a student in MY Socrative room: code 91682)
GOOGLE DOC to share writing: example
FOLLOW-UP PRESENTATION:
BREAKOUT ROOMS:
Group #1, 2, 3 (How do you teach Grammar?):
https://docs.google.com/document/d/16v8k5spd_DPh2qvp0FT9dIkdFXH
Group #4, 5, 6 (How do you teach Vocabulary?):
https://docs.google.com/document/d/19Q0jrZ0nKoY_Mt7hijtIbOfn0R4LI
Group #7, 8, 9 (How do you teach Pragmatics?):
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1L97XY79Q_TlHDLfUcvonH0ClOhp
Raffle: Brave New Digital Classroom—Technology and Foreign Language Learning by Dr. Robert J. Blake and Dr. Gabriel Guillén
Session Chair: Dr. Gaye Walton-Price
Click this link to join the session. https://ucdavis.zoom.us/j/94236082121