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Level Up! Using Artificial Intelligence to Empower Instruction and Transform Language on January 28th, 2024

Academic Writing Support Desk 2nd Anniversary Event: Using AI for Writing Development on January 31st, 2024

Workshopping with AI for an Academic World on February 23rd, 2024

Level Up! Using Artificial Intelligence to Empower Instruction and Transform Language

Shelly Sanchez Terrell

Date: Sunday, January 28th, 2024

Time: 11:00am - 12:00pm

Location: Zoom (The link will be provided to all those who RSVP.)

RSVP: https://forms.gle/cKaXYvqf15hRpuiHA

Facebook: https://fb.me/e/tJ4OyNAVd

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Abstract:

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to revolutionize the way students learn and will continue to impact our learners' future. Additionally, AI is a powerful tool K-12 teachers can use to save time on lesson planning, differentiating lessons, and adapting lessons to meet the needs of their multilingual and diverse learners. In this presentation, Shelly Sanchez Terrell, will introduce powerful, free AI tools that will enhance student the four skills- reading, writing, speaking and listening. Participants will also discover AI tools and prompts that will save them valuable time on lesson planning, grading, and materials design. Teachers will leave feeling empowered to help their language learners use AI more ethically and powerfully throughout their future.

Shelly Sanchez Terrell

Shelly Sanchez Terrell is an award-winning digital innovator, international speaker, teacher, and author. She has trained teachers in over 20 countries as a guest expert, consultant, and ambassador for the U.S. Embassy. She was named Woman of the Year by the National Association of Professional Women and received a Bammy Award as the founder of #Edchat. She has been recognized by several entities as a leader in the movement of teacher driven professional development as the founder and organizer of various online conferences, Twitter chats, and webinars. She is the author of TeacherRebootcamp.com, Hacking Digital Learning with Edtech Missions, The 30 Goals Challenge for Teachers, and Learning to Go: Integrating Mobile Learning in the Classroom.

Academic Writing Support Desk 2nd Anniversary Event: Using AI for Writing Development (January 31st)

RSVP link: https://forms.gle/zdDD3vLck11KfvBFA

Registration to get a Zoom link will close on Tuesday 30th January 2024 at 12pm (JST).


Abstract:

Recent increases in the accuracy and capabilities of artificial intelligence (AI) have led to more widespread use at a societal level. In formal education, AI tools such as machine translation and ChatGPT are sometimes banned due to teachers’ concerns that students will become over-reliant on them or use them to cheat on assignments. However, if used well, these tools can help students to enhance their foreign language skills. This session focuses on how machine translation and other AI tools can be effectively used to work on L2 writing. After introducing several useful tools and tasks, advice will be offered on how to implement student guidelines and encourage responsible use of AI.


Bio:

Dr. Louise Ohashi (Gakushuin University) specializes in second language acquisition and language education. Her main research areas are learner autonomy, motivation, and the use of technology for language teaching and learning. Along with her passion for teaching and research, she is an avid language learner who speaks Japanese, Italian and French in addition to her first language, English. She is also learning Spanish and German. Follow her on Twitter @OhashiLou for updates on her work.


Wed, January 31, 2024 - 3:00pm to 5:00pm

Place: Hybrid! Zoom and Tsukuba University - CA 305

This event is sponsored by Tokyo JALT, Ibaraki JALT, and Tsukuba University

Workshopping with AI for an Academic World

Rab Paterson & Kaori Hakone

Date: Friday, February 23rd, 2024

Time: 6:30pm to 7:30pm

Location: Zoom (The link will be provided to all those who RSVP.)

RSVP: https://forms.gle/VTxwdJyZgZZrGa4y6

JALT Link: https://jalt.org/event/tokyo/24-02-23

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Abstract:

These EdTech events are for language teachers who want to know more about EdTech and look for different ways to implement new ideas in their teaching. 

AI’s arrival into the academic world is having a major impact on education and teaching practices. Without training, this will cause problems for educators until they adapt to using AI apps in their teaching workflow. Therefore, this session will help teachers learn, incorporate, and discuss AI apps and AI friendly teaching practices to help their students ethically navigate the AI educational world. First, Hakone will highlight a set of free AI research/reading apps that can be used by students in furtherance of their homework tasks. She will give a walk-through of the apps and an overview of the pros and cons of each, and give a review of her personal experiences with using them in the classroom and her work. Next Paterson will demonstrate some writing apps and how he uses them. He will also show how teachers can create a classroom workflow of experiential writing homework tasks that are highly AI plagiarism proof, i.e. students can’t ask AIs to specifically complete the task as AI apps will not know about what was done in the classroom nor the students’ classroom experiences. He will demonstrate how these tasks can then provide teachers with a benchmark of initial individual writing samples that can be checked against students’ future research writing work that could be completed by AI apps (instead of the students doing the tasks) to see if AI-driven plagiarism has taken place. Finally, there will be an open discussion / Q and A time at the end.

Rab Paterson

Rab Paterson (BA, MA, CoETail, MS, MEd, FRAS, FRSA)is a Lecturer at Rikkyo University’s Center for Foreign Language Education and Research. He's a Best Of JALT, Apple Distinguished Educator, and a Google Innovator award winner and a Google Certified Trainer. Rab’s publications range from peer-reviewed academic journal papers, conference proceedings, academic book chapters, newsletter articles, and he has presented at many international academic conferences worldwide including Keynote, Plenary, Featured Speaker, and Invited Speaker sessions, two TEDx presentations, an Apple Showcase presentation. His current research focuses on AI and Plagiarism, Presentation Theory and Practice, and Digital Research writing.

Kaori Hakone

Kaori Hakone (BA, MA, CoETaIL, MS) is an Associate Professor at Osaka Jogakuin University where she is the Director of the Japanese Education Center. She has taught Japanese in Japan and internationally and is an Apple Distinguished Educator award winner, a former ADE Asia Pacific Advisory Board member, a Google Innovator award winner, and a Google Certified Trainer. Her publications include a textbook, academic research papers, and newsletter articles. Regarding technology and education, she teaches first-year Digital Network Foundation and ICT in Teacher Education courses. Her current research focuses on EdTech, Community Issues, JSL, and Leadership. 

Call for Papers - 2023

The Tokyo JALT Journal (TJJ) is calling for the submission of papers. 

Deadline: December 15th, 2023

To submit ideas for papers, or to make inquiries, please contact the editors Robert J. Lowe and Jesse Reed at:

tokyo.jalt.editor@gmail.com

For the next issue of the Tokyo JALT Journal, we are looking for: 

(Please click here for details of these) 

All papers should be 1000-3000 words in length, and written in accessible language.


Submission guidelines

If you have an idea for a piece you would like to submit, please contact the editors first with your idea at: tokyo.jalt.editor@gmail.com. Following this, the editors will invite authors to make a full submission.

Initial suggestions for papers for the next issue should be sent by December 15th, 2023, and the deadline for final submission of articles will be March 31st, 202.


Invited papers

The editors will also be prompting discussion on social media with our research workshop questions, and will invite people to write up their contributions to these discussions as short journal pieces (max. 1000 words). Keep an eye out on social media for these discussions, and contribute if you feel comfortable doing so, and want a chance to publish your contribution in the journal!


Contact

To submit ideas for papers, or to make inquiries, please contact the editors Robert J. Lowe and Jesse Reed at:

tokyo.jalt.editor@gmail.com

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Jobs

Part-time English Lecturer, Seijo University


成城大学社会イノベーション学部では、以下の要領で非常勤講師を募集しています。

1. 【採用予定日】2023年4月(次年度以降も継続の予定)

2. 【勤務先】成城大学 〒157-8511 東京都世田谷区成城6-1-20

3. 【担当予定科目】

English I: Skills for Learning [a] [b]  3クラス

必修科目、aは前期、bは後期

English for Academic Settings 1クラス

選択科目、通年、受講者がいない場合は開講されない場合がある

(すべてのクラスをご担当いただける方が望ましい)

4. 【応募資格】原則として次の全ての条件を満たす者

(1) 本学部の英語教育の方針を理解し、熱意と責任をもって教育を行える者

(2) 修士または博士の学位を有する者

(3) 3点以上の研究業績がある者

(4) 高等教育機関での教育経験がある者

5. 【応募期限】特に定めないが、決まり次第、募集を終了します。

6. 【応募方法】下記アドレス宛に、履歴書・業績一覧(ともに書式自由・PDF)、担当可能な曜限(メール本文に明記)をお送りください。

成城大学社会イノベーション学部 磯野達也(tisono@seijo.ac.jp

7. 【面接】候補者には面接を行いますが、面接の際の交通費の支給はありませんので、予めご了承ください。


Part-time English Instructors, Gakushuin University ISS, Tokyo

The Gakushuin University Faculty of International Social Sciences (ISS) is currently seeking part-time English instructors for the 2023 and 2024 academic years. This is an ongoing search. Successful interviewees will then be contacted for positions matching their skills and availability on a continuous basis. Positions may start April 2023, September 2023, or April 2024.

The ISS opened in 2016 and enrolls approximately 200-220 students each year in a supportive environment to study subjects under the umbrella of Social Sciences, primarily Economics, Law, Business Management, Sociology, and Area Studies. Students develop the skills to investigate, analyze, and interpret materials, and communicate their findings to others. Because English is the lingua franca of these disciplines, throughout the four years of the program, students will study English intensively to develop the language resources they will need as social science students, and later as professionals in society and the workplace as global citizens. 

Qualifications: 


1. Interest in Content and Language and Integrated Learning (CLIL) 

2.    Master's degree in an EFL-related field or applied linguistics, or any of the following fields: Economics, Business   

        Management, Sociology, Law, Area Studies 

3. Experience or interest in teaching English classes with a focus on social science content

4. Experience teaching English for academic purposes

5. Minimum of 2 years of university teaching experience in Japan

6. Minimum of 1 year teaching at university level using a learning management system such as Moodle, Canvas, Google 

        Classroom, or similar

The ISS values the diverse linguistic backgrounds of our staff. Non-native English Speaking Teachers are encouraged to apply.

General terms and conditions: 


Retirement age of 70 

Payment according to the Gakushuin University pay scale 

Use of the teachers' common room (in the ISS faculty building, South 2) 

Three paid faculty development meetings per year

Contact:

Please send a single PDF file including: CV, cover letter, and contact information for two professional references to Ted O’Neill at ted.oneill@gakushuin.ac.jp.



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