Dear community –
Dear (future) teachers,
Dear students,
thank you for visiting and participating in this project that aims at establishing a platform for reflection and communication among teacher trainees, educators, in-service teachers and students from all over the world. What will, what should education look like in the ongoing 21st century? How can we best prepare our students for the manifold challenges awaiting them?
This project website will look at several impending challenges of English Language Teaching: digitalisation and multilingualism. How will these areas of change, prominently addressed by the New London Group in their “Pedagogy of Multiliteracies” (1996/2000), shape our future education? As one example, we will look at writing. We will hereby focus on questions like: What is the role of writing competencies in today’s digitalised and multilingual world? Did writing change and how? What will writing look like in the future? Is it even relevant anymore? How can we prepare our students and what kind of skills do they need in order to become active participants of today’s society?
With the seminar “Teaching writing skills using creative methods and digital media” based at Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany, we will investigate what writing competence means for 21st-century students. We will design lesson material and lesson plans, reflect on our designs and we will have a look at creative methods of teaching writing.
I am looking forward to all the wonderful ideas we will encounter during the course of this project. Feel free to always leave us a comment and/or to share our thoughts and ideas from this blog.
Take care and all the best!
Carina Kaufmann