Workshop completed.
My friend Maria Diez Ortega and I completed a 3-hour online workshop for CALICO this year. We planned to attend CALICO conference where we could offer this workshop and another Show and Tell session about the Multiʻōlelo project. I also had my individual papers accepted. However, the pandemic changed almost everything and we decided to carry out an online workshop. I have given online presentations via webinars or teaching before but conducting a 3-hour online workshop where participants paid for it (CALICO) is something I have not done before. We had pressure and worked really hard on this project but have learned a lot from doing it.
In this workshop, I attempted to mesh two perspectives together so that data can be used to inform teaching and learning: assessment and learning analytics. Assessment has been a well-researched area in education, but most of the time it is concerned with student learning (cognitive abilities or linguistic performance), which leaves a gap in how learning experience and environment can contribute to learning. Learning Analytics tends to be more inclusive in gathering, analyzing, and using data to inform instruction and learning. However, it seems to focus on ‘data’ side over the theoretical side when making contribution to learning and teaching. Certainly, the field of LA has evolved quickly recently to combine theories and practices in education to inform data analysis.
Mery did a wonderful job in helping participants see how different tools can be leveraged at teachers’ disposal. Instead of focusing on how to use those tools, Mery demonstrated how data produced from those tools can be analyzed, reported, and used to make informed pedagogical decisions.
Here are a couple of slides I prepared:
And the workshop description from the CALICO website: https://calico.org/2020-hands-on-workshops
Using learning analytics in a classroom can help teachers and researchers learn about student engagement, performance, and learning progress in a time-efficient way. This workshop will share how several tools (e.g. H5P, Edpuzzle, Quizizz) can be applied in the classroom not just for learning but also to gather, store, process, and use information about the learners, their learning, as well as ones’ teaching. From a language analytic perspective, we will discuss and demonstrate how to collect and process linguistic and nonlinguistic data (engagement, time on task, metacognition, feedback), with these tools, followed by a hands-on activity for attendees to experiment using learning analytics.