These days how we usually do things is being disrupted on many levels. You can share news with ‘friends’ around the world whom you rarely see or pay for coffee with your cellphone. We generally think of technology (hardware and software), as what causes these disruptions. In this talk, I want to use the idea technology as ways of doing things to examine disruptions in ELT. I am interested in what these disruptions to our technologies—our ways of doing things-- mean for what teachers are doing in their classrooms. As people doing the work of ELT, we can pretend the familiar stability of ideas we know and use, or we can engage with the ideas that are disrupted/changing our work.
Donald Freeman is Professor of Education, University of Michigan, where his work focuses on understanding teacher learning and supporting ELT professional development at scale. He is senior advisor on the ELTeach Project (National Geographic Learning), which provides on-line professional... Read More →
