TEACHING
| Teaching - Stereotypes Time: 1 hour Learners level: intermediate - advanced IBLI tools utilized:
Introduction This lesson is meant to be part of a continuing CALL/IBLI project blended into a language-learning curriculum. This proposed lesson plan would work best with intermediate to advanced English language learners. This lesson plan assumes learners are already accustomed to and have been using several CALL tools, including blogging, chat rooms, etc. This lesson obviously follows a previous lesson(s) in which the students created accounts and were trained in using the websites used in this lesson that support those tools, notably tappedin.org and blogger.com. In this course, students will be asked to keep an online weblog journal through, or a blog, which they must update frequently while leaving postings on other member's blogs. |
| This project interweaves several remarkable
facets of Internet based language-instruction, including: synchronous
computer-mediated-communication, asynchronous
computer-mediated-communication via blogging and hypermedia streaming through
the youtube video. Learners also get to utilize other useful web-based
language-learning tools such as online dictionaries. Right: The online campus of tappedin.org supports SCMC between teacher and students. |
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| Objectives Learners improve their writing skills by keeping a blog that is updated periodically throughout the course. Updates are made on given topics by the instructor, as well as by the students. Students engage in negotiation of meaning by posting comments on classmate's blogs. Students also meet once/several times a week online to discuss certain topics synchronously. Today's topic: Stereotypes between men and women.
Procedure: 1. Warm-up: Students go to computers and log on to tappedin.org in their usernames. Students meet in teacher's (virtual) office where teacher/students greet each other and call role. Allow general chatting (as long as it's in English) to take place for about 5 minutes. (10 mins.) 2. SCMC/web-search: Teacher elicits from students their knowledge of stereotypes by asking, "what are stereotypes?" Students are allowed to use online dictionaries or web-searches if needed. Students discuss the meaning of the word, the concept of stereotypes and just what kinds of stereotypes exist. (10 mins.) 3. SCMC: Teacher then elicits from students stereotypical differences between men and women. Be sure to allow every student a chance to have his or her say. Ask students which stereotypes brought up they agree with or which they don't agree with. 4. Video: Students then watch animated Youtube video posted above, "Men VS Women - The Differences" @ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yDbwqa-76Y - running time 5:38 mins. Alternatively, the video can be downloaded and accessed from a shared drive. Or it can be embedded onto a website (such as a teachers blog) and linked using the following embed code:
Students and teacher then discuss the video and whether or not any of the stereotypes, obviously exaggerated in the video, hold any legitimacy. (10-15 mins.) 5. Writing exercise: students log onto their blogs and submit a posting titled, Stereotypes: the differences between men & women. Students are to write an introduction, brief review of the video and then give their own opinion about the video. Students can write a draft using a word-editing document; however, they must submit their final draft onto their blogs. (30 mins.) 6. Feedback: Students are to then visit classmate's blogs and leave feedback comments on at least 3 classmate's postings. (10-15 mins.) 7. Wrap-up: After posting comments on at least three classmate's blogs, students then regroup in teacher's office (@ tappedin.org) where they synchronously discuss classmate's postings, pointing out what good points other students may have had. Teacher wraps up and dismisses class. Tappedin.org will automatically send a transcript to each student via email of SCMC.
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