What's up with WhatsApp? – Nicky Hockly | ELTOC Chapter 3 2022

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What's up with WhatsApp? Teaching live with group messaging apps

In many contexts the Covid-19 pandemic foregrounded inequalities in access to education via digital technologies. This talk describes an innovative approach to teaching primary and secondary learners English language lessons in real-time via WhatsApp text and audio. Designed initially as response to challenges posed by the pandemic, the approach is suitable for low-resource contexts where access to technology and data may be limited, but can be replicated in high- and medium-resource contexts too.

The talk includes a brief summary of the principles underlying the approach as well as examples of live/real-time WhatsApp English language lessons. Lessons learned about leveraging appropriate technologies in low resource contexts, in order to ensure sustainability, are also shared.

Speaker Bio:
Nicky Hockly is the Director of Pedagogy of The Consultants-E. She is a teacher, teacher educator, consultant, author and international plenary speaker, and regularly trains teachers all over the world, both f2f and online. Nicky has written several prize-winning methodology books about new technologies in language teaching. Her most recent books are Focus on Learning Technologies (2016), ETPedia Technology (2017), and 50 Essentials for Using Learning Technologies (2022). Her research interests include blended and online learning, digital literacies, and the use of digital technologies in low-resource contexts.

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