TECHNO-CLIL

This session was given by Letizia Cinganotto a researcher and Daniela Cuccurullo an EFL teacher from Italy. First of all Letizia explained that CLIL is teaching a regular subject in a foreign language, which I have come across before. In this way students learn both content and language at the same time.

David Marsh provided the original definition of CLIL and he also produced this chart to show how many different ways that CLIL can be used.

David Marsh has also written book called CLIL: education for the internet generation. Obviously modern technology makes it far easier to integrate language into everyday learning with the great variety of resources available. In 2012 there was CLIL provision throughout most of Europe and the European Onion has recommended that that this be taken up on a greater scale.

Letizia then went on to talk about integrating technology rather than just using technology in the classroom for CLIL and gave us this slide about it (I seem to think I saw something similar on one of the other webinars!) Technology Enhanced Language Learning (TELL - another acronym!)

She told us that in Italy, teachers have to provide at least 50% of the subject in a second language for upper secondary school students. The Ministry of Education has provided finance to train teachers to deliver this education.

Then Daniela told us about some of the resources that teachers can use in the classroom. First of all she talked about CLIL Magazine which has resources and guidance for teachers - this is a new one for me but it looks interesting. She then talked about other resources such as Khan Academy and TEDtalks  using Flipped Classroom methodology before going on to edX, where you can actually learn things yourself to prepare yourself for flipped classrooms and also you can explore resources suggested by other people.

Daniela gave us another useful resource the CLILstore where there are lessons in different languages that can be utilised in the classroom and there are some other tools from the main page http://multidict.net/ 

Another really comprehensive resource she told us about was comeongetappy.com  which give you the tools and guide to using them - a real gem!

And then another one The CLIL cascade network (It took a little while to load so you may need to be patient) which has a collection of links and ideas under the resources section as well as networking with people around the world. (Both of these sites warrant further investigation!) She also talked about EVO which I have been a part of before -  more information here This is an amazing opprtunity to meet up with other teachers and learn and share ideas.

Daniela also recommended http://www.scoop.it/ where you can collate information and ideas as well as following other people with similar interests and the CLILEVO repository on pbworks which is still active after 2 years.

She also talked a little about the changing requirements for student literacies/fluencies in the 21st Century - After seeing her slide I found this site which has useful information and some resources too
https://globaldigitalcitizen.org/21st-century-fluencies

There is a journal which is published by the two ladies which also has useful information on the subject of CLIL and 21st Century Fluencies http://www.je-lks.org/ojs/index.php/Je-LKS_EN/index

A lot of really useful information included in this meeting,  thank you Letizia and Daniela.