[Webinar] The role of technology in innovative pedagogic practices: Re-tooling, re-imagining and re-creating

To most educators, the sudden shift to online teaching brought about by COVID-19 has been a catalyst to their professional development. This is no exception to Nicole. In this talk, she will trace her pedagogic growth as a teacher educator supporting pre- and in-service English teachers in learning to teach online with a focus on three key insights she has gained. Guided by the Students-as-Partners model (Healey et al., 2014), she initiated the Students-as-Perusall-Managers approach which has proven to be invigorating in motivating learners to read collaboratively despite social distancing. Inspired by Carless, Stoakes and Moody (2020), she experimented with the use of video feedback which has been shown to significantly boost students’ agentic response to teacher feedback. Drawing on data from Nicole’s two-year self-study of her own virtual classroom practices, she challenges the widely cited dictum of putting the pedagogy horse before the technology cart (e.g. Sankey, 2020). Findings…