EVO2025 SESSIONS

This session explores practical applications of AI in English Language Teaching. We'll examine AI-powered tools for lesson planning, personalized learning, and assessment. Participants will learn to integrate AI effectively, enhance student engagement and learning, and implement AI-based strategies in ELT contexts, balancing innovation with pedagogical best practices. 

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AI’s integration in education requires a responsible approach and ethical practices. This session explores fundamental ethics of AI and practical approaches for its integration in education. Participants explore scenarios and best practices. Participants leave with relevant products and new insights for AI integration into their lessons and teaching contexts. 

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Utilizing artificial intelligence (AI) tools in course design, participants will learn how to design and deliver a distance or blended course site with optimal content, tools, and scaffolding according to best practices and quality standards. Examples and options will be given and participants will showcase their work.

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This session focuses on task design and tools that can be applied at different levels of the SAMR Model. The SAMR model presents four levels of technology integration to progressively enhance teaching practice. Participants will analyze, discuss, evaluate and create digital tasks using various tools in different levels of integration.

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Grammar for TESOL offers new and experienced TESOL teachers theoretical and practical insights into grammar teaching and learning. Through hands-on interactive content, participants are provided with multiple opportunities to develop and receive feedback on grammar instructional materials and error correction practices as they evaluate and utilize online and AI-generative technology. 

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During this 5-week session, participants gain hands-on experience creating language learning activities and tasks utilising AI-generated characters in Virtual Reality and virtual worlds. This session aims to enable participants to create a character, engineer prompts, build a virtual avatar and develop conversational activities with this AI companion for their classes.

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Engagement, access to tools and digital literacy continue to be challenges in multilingual learning classrooms. Participants will explore different virtual, AI tools, and social media apps to promote virtual and in-person engagement. Participants will leave with ideas, techniques and activities to adapt to any context and/or classroom. 

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This session equips English teachers in secondary school with effective strategies to integrate environmental sustainability into their EFL lessons. By fostering a deeper understanding of global issues and promoting responsible citizenship, this approach empowers EFL teachers and students to become active agents of change through contextualized sustainable actions.

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