Ken Wilson

1. Ken Wilson • Widening horizons with YouTube - ways of going deeper • Can global issues provide authenticity and context in English teaching? • IATEFL Conference Harrogate GISIG day

3. PARSNIPS • Politics • Alcohol/addictions • Religion • Sex/sexual orientation • Narcotics • Isms (communism/atheism etc) • Pork/Palestine • Social class

4. Question 1 Do you worry about PARSNIPS? • Widening horizons with YouTube - ways of going deeper

5. PARSNIPS • Politics • Alcohol/addictions • Religion • Sex/sexual orientation • Narcotics • Isms (racism, nationalism etc) • Pork/Palestine • Social class

6. PARSNIPS

10. Question 2 • Is it part of the duties of a language teacher to include socially responsible topics in their classes?

11. Question 2 • Mandala Arfa Kaboodvand • Islamic Azad University, Tehran • The teacher as saviour • English Teaching Professional, Issue 88, September 2013

12. Question 2 • Can global issues provide authenticity and context in English teaching? • Widening horizons with YouTube - ways of going deeper • Is it part of the duties of a language teacher to include socially responsible topics in their classes?

13. Question 3 • Can global issues provide authenticity and context in English teaching? • Widening horizons with YouTube - ways of going deeper • What do we mean • when we talk about • global issues?

14. climate change/global warming • air and water pollution • military spending/making war • ethnic conflict • financial crises • loss of biodiversity • poverty • racism/ultra-nationalism • attitudes to minorities • famine and water shortage

15. Question 4 • Can global issues provide authenticity and context in English teaching? • Widening horizons with YouTube - ways of going deeper • Do your students care • about any of these issues?

16. Can global issues provide authenticity and context in English teaching? • Widening horizons with YouTube - ways of going deeper • climate change/global warming • air and water pollution • military spending • ethnic conflict • financial crisis • loss of biodiversity • poverty • racism/ultra-nationalism • famine and water shortage

17. Question 5 • Can global issues provide authenticity and context in English teaching? • Widening horizons with YouTube - ways of going deeper • If your students DON’T care about these issues, should you do something about it?

18. Question 6 • Can global issues provide authenticity and context in English teaching? • Widening horizons with YouTube - ways of going deeper • If you decide to do something about it, how do you provide source material?

19. Three classroom ideas • 1 Images • 2 Sugata Mitra’s task • 3 United Nations webpage

20. 1 Images

21. 1 Images • ELT pics • Victoria Boobyer • Carol Goodey • Vicky Loras

26. 2 Sugata Mitra’s task

27. Experiments show that children in unsupervised groups are capable of answering questions many years ahead of the material they're learning in school. In fact, they seem to enjoy the absence of adult supervision, and they are very confident of finding the right answer. • 2 Sugata Mitra’s task

28. In most schools, we measure children on what they know. By and large, they have to memorize the content of whatever test is coming up. Because measuring the results of rote learning is easy, rote prevails. What kids know is just not important in comparison with whether they can think. • 2 Sugata Mitra’s task

29. Students are rewarded for memorization, not imagination or resourcefulness. Go to a job interview and tell and employer that you can recite the 17 times table; they don't care. Why are we still teaching it? • 2 Sugata Mitra’s task

30. 3 United Nations webpage

32. Three classroom ideas

38. Two more sources....

43. Useful links • eltpics.com • disabled-accessfriendly.com • breakingnewsenglish.com • United Nations homepage - www.un.org/en

44. http://kenwilsonelt.wordpress.com

46. Ken Wilson - Motivating the Unmotivated That’s it! Thank you very much! http://kenwilsonelt.wordpress.comhttps://www.facebook.com/kenwrite