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Here are some videos of talks I have given

Instant messaging with learners – IATEFL 2016, Birmingham

Reflective video – IATEFL BESIG 2015, Sitges

Using video in the classroom – Innovate ELT 2015, Barcelona

 

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  • Teaching & learning in the Covid-19 era
  • Is EdTech trying to reinvent the wheel?
  • What does it mean to be human?
  • What does 2020 mean for Ed Tech?
  • Hello, can I help you?

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  • Teaching & learning in the Covid-19 era
    There is a reason why The Open University is still going strong some 51 years after it was founded in 1969; it was created for the specific purpose of distance learning, and based all its principles on sound pedagogy to reach the learning objectives they set out. Distance learning and online teaching and learning are […]
  • Is EdTech trying to reinvent the wheel?
    I attended the Digital Learning Colloquium at Cambridge last week, and it was a fascinating insight into the future landscape of EdTech painted by a broad spectrum of attendees from different backgrounds: product development, research, academia, consultants, product design, and the odd ELT teacher and trainer. While there were clear threads of discussion regarding the […]
  • What does it mean to be human?
    With the surge of interest and investment into AI, the question at the forefront of my mind is ‘What does it mean to be human?’ The apparent obsession with AI is to replicate human intelligence on all levels, but the problem I have with this is that I don’t think we fully understand what it […]
  • What does 2020 mean for Ed Tech?
    A new year AND a new decade, so what does 2020 mean for Ed Tech? Twenty years ago we were getting to grips with communicating via email. Ten years ago iPhones had already been around for three years, but their price bracket pitched them out of reach for the majority of mobile phone users. So […]
  • Hello, can I help you?
    Facebook messenger bots can be set up and working within an hour. It is no wonder then that text-to-text chatbots have replaced the automated customer service answer machines in many sectors of industry. The chatbot can be programmed with a training corpus of customer service complaints in the form of recognisable input data, and possible […]
  • Disinhibition and Human Computer Interaction
    For some reason, when we are learning a foreign language, we feel intimidated to speak it. We fear we will be laughed at, won’t say the right thing and won’t be understood or simply lack the confidence to put a voice to the words floating around in our brains forming utterances. It is clear inhibition […]
  • Man or machine?
    Man or machine? That is the question! There is an endless flow of information being pushed onto our screens about the danger of robots and machines taking over the world. Martin Ford’s Rise of the robots (2015) presents a blatantly bleak view of automation and the ‘threat of jobless future’ due to the advances of […]
  • From RALL to chatbots
    I began the year with a strong desire to continue my research into RALL, and while that is still the case, my research has lead me to investigate the benefits and  pedagogical potential of using chatbot teachers to assist in language learning. The research examines the use of a speech-to-speech interface as the language-learning tool, […]
  • So just how should you speak to a chatbot?
    So just how should you speak to a chatbot? If you cast your mind back to Tay the chatbot built by Microsoft. She was shut down on the grounds of inappropriateness because she was posting offensive and unsuitable content on her Twitter account. Hardly surprising really considering she was built using corpus from Twitter posts […]
  • Turn taking and chatbots
    Turn taking is a natural part of conversation that we subconsciously engage in order for the discourse to flow. Here is an example: A: “Good morning” B: “Morning. How are you? Good weekend?” A: “Yes thanks, and you? How was Brighton?” For the Cambridge main suite speaking exams, candidates are assessed on their turn-taking ability […]
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