Phil Warwick
Being in line with being online, even when you’re offline
Abstract:
What a difference a year makes!
Suddenly we find ourselves exploring different mediums and platforms to deliver mainstream lessons and classes to students who, like the rest of us, are adjusting to the new normal. What seemed like short-term fads or doses of edutainment are now standard practices, Zoom has zoomed into our lives and impacted our methodology in ways that we are still trying to understand.
In this session we’ll explore the advantages and shortcomings of distance learning and how to complement this with bursts of face-to-face teaching, revisiting blended learning in the context of the current situation and using all this to equip us with the skills to be better 21st educators regardless of the surrounding situation.
Bio:
Phil has been involved in ELT since 1989, during that time he has taught in various countries and to various age groups. Over the last 10 years he has delivered teacher training sessions to educators in more than 30 countries and been involved in various projects from teaching English to Scientists, running a University English department, to training teacher trainers in Turkmenistan. He is currently waiting out the pandemic by teaching at a local grammar school in Brno, where he is based and delivering the odd online course for the summer school where he has been academic manager of for more than a decade.
Outside of teaching, like most people. He enjoys good food and good conversation along with hearty walks in the countryside to burn off the accumulated calories.