Workshop schedule [Vietnam, Nov-Dec, 2023]
- Day 1
- => Go to website [Note: Website differs in format on small screens]
- Start here: Take Poll
- Sharing: Introductions
- Exploration: This workshop website
- Sharing: Discuss Poll results
- Overview AI: Topic orientation | Language teacher preparation for an AI world
- Sharing: Sites and tools participants like to use
- Exploration: Live examples of using ChatGPT Bard Bing
- Hands-on: 1) Set up apps (first 3 on list) for workshop and beyond,
then 2) experiment using AI tools with sample prompts as teachers and as learners- Sharing: Participants discuss experiences with trying out AI
- For day 2: Think of specific ways to integrate AI into your classes; possibly bring textbook or other teaching materials
Day 2
- Overview SLA/CALL: Topic orientation | Best practices in SLA integrated into technology
- Exploration: AI in English for business
- Hands-on: Explore how to integrate AI into actual teaching materials
- Sharing: Possibilities for using AI in particular lessons or topics
- Overview culture: Topic orientation | Integrating culture into language teaching in an AI world
- Overview blended/mobile: Topic orientation
- Overview XR: Topic orientation | Augmented and virtual reality for language education
- Sharing: Best practices in the use of AI
- Overview future: Topic orientation | The language teacher's role in an AI world
- Workshop conclusion | Provide feedback
Hands-on with tech toolsResource pages for workshop topics
- AI chatbots and other tools
Big 3: ChatGPT | Bard | Bing- Prompts for teachers
- Prompts for learners
- Tools and examples for extended reality tech (AR/VR)
Opening and closing presentations ChatGPT turns 1: What has changed?
- Current state of technology in language education
- Blended learning models and mobile technology
- Artificial intelligence and chatbots
- Integrating culture into language learning in an AI world
- Virtual and augmented reality
- How will teacher roles change in an AI world?
Collaborative pages
- ChatGPT is winning the future - but what future is that? (The Verge, 2023)
- A year ago, it was just ChatGPT - now LLMs are everywhere (VentureBeat, 2023)
- ChatGPT turns 1: AI chatbot's success says as much about humans as technology (The Conversation, 2023)
- Sports Illustrated Published Articles by Fake, AI-Generated Writers (Futurism, 2023)
- Participant poll
- Consensus best practices in using AI in language teaching and learning (Padlet)
- Share ideas/experiences/resources (Google Doc)
- Email: rgjones@vcu.edu
Articles for in-depth exploration of topics (R. Godwin-Jones)
- Smartphones and language learning (2017)
- Using mobile devices in the language classroom (2018)
- Towards Transculturality: English as a lingua franca in intercultural communication and in online language learning (2018)
- In a World of SMART Technology, Why Learn Another Language? (2019)
- Bridging Cultural Divides Through Telecollaboration (2019)
- Learning in the open: Integrating language and culture through student curation, virtual exchange, and OER (2019)
- Building the porous classroom (2020)
- Open textbook on intercultural communication (2020)
- Evolving technologies for language learning (2021)
- Big data and language learning: Opportunities and challenges (2021)
- Technology-mediated Second Language Acquisition: Evolving Trends and Emerging Technologies (2022)
- Digital language learning (2022)
- Partnering with AI: Intelligent writing assistance and instructed language learning (2022)
- Chatbots in language learning: AI systems on the rise (2022)
- Smart devices and informal language learning (2023)
- Presence and agency in real and virtual spaces: The promise of extended reality for language learning (2023)
- Emerging spaces for language learning: AI bots, ambient intelligence, and the metaverse (2023)
Provide feedback on workshops (Google form)