COURSE FEEDBACK

By Ariba Memon
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• Questions to reflect on with colleagues
1. Is your vision for EdTech aligned with your school's key priorities
and wider strategy?
2. Is your school's use of EdTech supported by a program of
CPD(Continuing Professional Development)?
3.Does your school's use of EdTech reduce staff workload?
4. Does your school's use of EdTech have a tangible impact on pupils'
learning?
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• What is your purpose?
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1. Student engagement and attainment.        
2. Support effective working environments so that staff can focus on teaching.
3. Administration processes so that the burden of non-teaching tasks is reduced.
4. Assessment processes so that they're more efficient and effective.
5. Teaching practices to support access, inclusion, and improved access for all.
6. Supporting teachers, and education leaders so they can develop more flexibly  
   
7. Supporting decisions about work or further study and helping those who are not
in the formal education system to gain new skills
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Stages of your education technologies strategy
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1. Take the time to speak with leaders, teachers, pupils, and parents to
understand present technology, use it before making changes.
2. How does teaching happen? What are the key priorities for the school? How
does technology currently help or hinder these?
3. Connect with colleagues in other schools as well as existing research evidence
to determine the best possible tools to achieve the purpose you're aiming for.
4. Plan out the changes that might need to be made to infrastructure, software
and hardware to support your vision for education technology.

Determine what small-scale pilots will take place when, how, and with whom to
show you what works and what the challenges in the future might be
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Stages of your education technologies strategy
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5. Determine what small-scale pilots will take place when, how, and with whom to
show you what works and what the challenges in the future might be.
6. Plan your communication approaches and stages to your variety of stakeholders
to generate buy-in and to enable valuable feedback opportunities.
7. Plan out CPD approaches to help staff develop knowledge and skills to support
their effective use of education technologies.
8. Check the strategy regularly to ensure it's reducing workload in the long-term
even if there is a short-time investment of time.
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• Security considerations
1. Data breaches & leaks
2. Technical actions
3. Management actions
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• Language you need for each part of the test
• How you will be assessed
• Speaking more clearly
• Improving your fluency
• Enhancing your vocabulary
• Using better grammar
• Practicing with peers
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Connected speech
• …they have a lot of things in it. She could have connected the words have_a_lot_of and
things_in_it.
• and also contracted sounds:
• I do not cook much. Saying “I don’t cook much” would sound more natural.
• I would like to cook. She could have said “I’d like to cook”.
Connecting consonants with vowels:
1. Let’s talk_about → Let’s takabout
2. But_I think → BudI think
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Connecting similar sounds:
1. We need_data → We needata
2. Social_learning → Socialearning
Making new sounds: 
1.  Last year → Lastjear
2. Nice to meet you → Nice to meetja
3. Did you call? → Didja call?
Dropping a sound:
1. My next class → My nexclass
2. The most common mistake → The moscommon mistake
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Using contractions:
1.  It is not cold → It isn’t cold
2.  It will not be easy → It won’t be easy 
• Use Idiomatic expressions
• Using accurate vocabulary
For example:
1. old people. A more appropriate word to use is “elderly” people.
2.to take after them. The correct phrasal verb is to “look” after them.
Using Phrasal Verbs
For example: Sleep over, Pull through, Looking forward
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Word and Sentence stress
Consider the pronunciation of the words rate and crisis:
• rate has one syllable (i.e. /rate/), that is, one sound
• crisis has two syllables (i.e. /cri/sis/).

Australian television doesn’t report much on international events.

Australian television doesn’t report much on international events.
Australian television doesn’t report much on international events.
Australian television doesn’t report much on international events.
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Collocation A collocation is a group of two or more words that are almost always put together to
create a specific meaning
Collocations in the English language can follow several structures:
1. adjective + noun (e.g. He gave me some excellent advice.)
2. noun + verb (e.g. The disease spread before anything could be done to prevent it.)
3. verb + noun (e.g. I have always tried to follow my father’s advice.)
4. verb + adverb (e.g. Consider the proposal carefully before you make a decision.)
5.adverb + adjective (e.g. An ability to speak Japanese is highly desirable for this job.)
6. noun + noun (e.g. The coach pushes the players to perform beyond their comfort zone)