Holger Goertz
Passionate educator who implements digital learning and outdoor education in his teaching of English Language and Literature, P.E. and German.
Location Spain
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My main digital footprint is definitely professional, i.e. as a teacher in an iPad school, I am a member of different digital groups ranging from my different Google Classrooms and school internal online forums, to the web-pages and digital media I create (e.g. on EdPuzzle) for my lessons. So I would consider myself a professional resident. Privately I have a...
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I also like this new definition, replacing the old "digital native and immigrant" narrative, as some 20 years after it has first been mentioned it doesn't fit in with the more recent discourse in TEL.
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I believe that the adherence to ethical guidelines can be an essential indicator for the level of scrutiny with which the research has been conducted, adding credibility to the researcher and his work.
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I would like to explore the links between "old school" teaching theories and TEL, especially how TEL can be helpful during the learning stage of Vigotsky’s Zone of Proximal Development.
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Thanks for the great article about "guerilla research", which brings back memories of my early stages with TEL (or whatever it was called at the time...)
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Bjola’s article is definitely more convincing.
It has a clear structure, with an INTRODUCTION that gives visual examples of the two websites presented, a DISCUSSION with accounts learners’ experiences as evidence, and a CONCLUSION that clearly highlights their positive features.Gelm’s article, on the other hand, isn’t really clear, especially in the...
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I also find the table very helpful. Thank's a million...
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"I’ll confess that when I first became an online educator I was influenced by this view, and felt overwhelmed by the prospect of embedding accessibility into my teaching."
I believe that there is no need for this confession, as this has been the reality some 20 years ago. Half-way properly functioning voice recognition software, for example, was a very... -
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In my context as secondary school teacher I am familiar with the need for inclusion, and as much as I like the Universal Design for Learning Guidelines, they are only useful if teachers know how to differentiate their teaching in their specific subject area in a pedagogically effective way (which they most often don’t have). Secondly they also need to be able...
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I also have not used such a formal framework, but I can see the value of it. Not only does it help to facilitate the integration of technology in our lessons, but it also requires us to reflect on our teaching goals and the specific expectations we have, something that one rarely does, when simply following the same old teaching routines, established...
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I have been using blended teaching in my lessons for the past 18 years. At first mainly through online resources and videos, but for the past 6-7 years also through specific learning applications like Quizlet, Kahoot, EdPuzzle, etc.
Especially EdPuzzle has changed my teaching and for certain aspects of my lessons, i.e. grammar, I use a flipped-classroom... -
Holger Goertz replied to [Learner left FutureLearn]
This sounds great. I would like to find out more about how exactly you implement this “pedagogy of collegiality”, with what age group of learners and what TEL tools you use...
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I do agree with Grainne Conole's statement, that "because the technologies are so exciting and beguiling that we are seeing a technologically deterministic drive, rather than one based on sound pedagogies". I have seen too many teachers who simply use technology for edutainment or merely a toy, mainly because they have not been properly instructed in the...
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" "Name: Tom Gender: male
Age: 50Lives in Ireland
with wife and three children
Likes sports, outdoor education, TEL, music, digital photography and videoing "
Education and experience "B.A. in P.E., English Literature and Language Acquisition
20 years’ teaching experience"
Role and responsibilities Teacher and Year Head of Y9 at a fee... -
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While I do believe that such virtual worlds have a great potential for the delivery of education in general, VR worlds like Second Life though evoke a much too cartoonish and game-like atmosphere, which I see a hindrance to learning especially for second level students who often show symptoms of mobile device addiction and for whom Second Life would only be a...
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I agree with you 100%. It's not so much Online Education, but TEL wich has the potential to be the saviour of education. While some might say that education is not broken, my 20 years' experience as secondary teacher have shown me that with the advent of mobile learning technology something in education began to go wrong in many schools.
It is often that a... -
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I believe that we have to re-think the values of traditional, state-run education in terms of the curricula that are on offer and how relevant these are for the future of learners, who don't even know yet if the job they will be doing in the future has been invented yet.
Education is not "broken", but the scaremongering about the dangers of the digital... -
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I also agree with many of your comments so far that the predictions in the video will, and to a certain extent already have materialized, which is already re-shaping education. While I am also convinced of the many opportunities TEL has to offer, I think that one has to look critically at its various developments, in order to avoid a perhaps dystopian...
