As technology advances, traditional methods of learning and instruction are being challenged. Can we learn a complex subject such as science by watching a video on social media? Can social media become the future medium of learning? In this session, we explore the answers to these questions with Derek Muller, the founder of Vertiasium YouTube… Continue reading Video: How is Social Media Transforming the Future of Education?
Category: ELT Videos
Video: Pape Samb: Linking Education with Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship is one of the solutions for developing self-sustainable communities, women and youth-led initiatives in developing countries. But, how can we teach to be an entrepreneur? Pape Samb is a social entrepreneur specialized in international development. He is the chairman, founder and designer of the Global Youth Innovation Network (GYIN), a youth-run and led network… Continue reading Video: Pape Samb: Linking Education with Entrepreneurship
Video: Kiran Bir Sethi: Not by Chance, but by Design!
Keynote Speech given at EDULEARN14
Video: Cliff Schmidt on Audio Learning in Remote Villages
Try to imagine being an illiterate farmer living in extreme poverty in a remote rural village, without electricity and with very few visits from anyone outside your village. How could you learn to keep your family healthy or grow enough food to feed them? In 2007, Literacy Bridge was formed to understand this problem and… Continue reading Video: Cliff Schmidt on Audio Learning in Remote Villages
Video: Ben Nelson on Rethinking Higher Education
Universities today are under an enormous amount of criticism and pressure: structures and pedagogical models developed in the 17th and 18th centuries, increasingly higher costs and rising demands for an educated work force in a changing and complex world. Minerva’s founder Ben Nelson talks about the origins of some of these problems, but also offers… Continue reading Video: Ben Nelson on Rethinking Higher Education
ELTWeekly Volume 8, Issue 11
[ELTWeekly Volume 8, Issue 11 | July 5, 2016 | ISSN 0975-3036] Video: Communicative Language Teaching: Jeremy Harmer and Scott Thornbury Video: 50 years of Linguistics at MIT, Lecture 4 Case Study: Varying Classroom Input to Cater for Different Learning Styles – Gareth Morgan Research Paper: Fostering L2 Voices with Literature: Pedagogical Insights – Won Kim… Continue reading ELTWeekly Volume 8, Issue 11
Video: 50 years of Linguistics at MIT, Lecture 4
[ELTWeekly Volume 8, Issue 11 | June 27, 2016 | ISSN 0975-3036] Noam Chomsky speaks about the history of linguistics in the 20th century and the role played by the MIT Linguistics department.
Video: Communicative Language Teaching: Jeremy Harmer and Scott Thornbury
[ELTWeekly Volume 8, Issue 11 | June 27, 2016 | ISSN 0975-3036] The Communicative Approach is so well-established, it’s more or less the default methodology for second language teaching. But where did it come from? How has it evolved? Where does it work? What are its strengths and its weaknesses?
David Crystal on ‘English Accents: Past-Present-Future’ (Video)
[ELTWeekly Volume 8, Issue 10 | June 20, 2016 | ISSN 0975-3036]
Carol Read on ‘Seven Ways to Promote Creativity in the Classroom’ (Video)
[ELTWeekly Volume 8, Issue 10 | June 20, 2016 | ISSN 0975-3036] Whether you teach pre-school, young learners, teens or adults, the ability to make your classroom a place where creativity thrives is a crucial factor in motivating and engaging learners. This talk explores seven ways to promote creativity and illustrates each one with a range of… Continue reading Carol Read on ‘Seven Ways to Promote Creativity in the Classroom’ (Video)