In Conversation with Sharon Rajabi, Part Four
This podcast is the fourth of a four-part conversation with adult education consultant and Avenue Standards for TELL team member Sharon Rajabi. In this podcast, Sharon talks about the three sets of Avenue Standards: for programs, for instructors, and for learners, and how they can work together to enable excellence in Technology-enhanced language learning in the settlement language sector. Sharon is in conversation with Bonnie Nicholas with The Avenue-LearnIT2teach Project.
In Conversation with Sharon Rajabi, Part Three
This podcast is the third of a four-part conversation with adult education consultant and Avenue Standards for TELL team member Sharon Rajabi. In this podcast, Sharon talks about the importance of standards generally, and specifically, the importance of the Avenue Standards and how they might be applied in the settlement language sector. Sharon is talking with Bonnie Nicholas with The Avenue-LearnIT2teach Project.
In Conversation with Sharon Rajabi, Part Two
This podcast is the second of a four-part conversation with adult education consultant and Avenue Standards for TELL team member Sharon Rajabi. In this podcast, Sharon talks about integrating digital technology with language teaching and learning, especially after the 2020 pandemic forced us all into emergency remote teaching. She touches on tools, resources, training and what she considers the most important factor: trust between program managers and instructors. Bonnie Nicholas with The Avenue-LearnIT2teach Project chats with Sharon in this podcast.
In Conversation with Sharon Rajabi, Part One.
This podcast is the second part of an interview with Dr. Deborah Healey, Emerita Professor University of Oregon.
In this interview, Dr. Healey talks about her perspective of language teachers’ involvement with Technology Enhanced Language Learning and if it is part of their responsibility to help students to acquire information technology skills. She shares her observations of language teachers and learners becoming more skilled with information technologies over the past decade and suggests ways for teachers who are thinking about integrating technology into their practices to get started using information technology. This discussion closes with Dr. Healey’s characterization of the potential roles of new AI technologies in language teaching. Moderated by Avenue’s own John Allan.
In this interview, Dr. Healey speaks about her role in the development of Avenue Standards for Technology-Enhanced Language Learning (TELL), and how she thinks that these new standards will benefit the Canadian language teaching and settlement sector. She addresses how the standards will affect language instructors in their practice. Dr. Healey also discusses how her experience developing the TESOL international technology standards assisted her team with the crafting of the Avenue Technology-Enhanced Language Learning standards. Moderated by Avenue’s own John Allan.
