Ted O'Neill

Featured Session
International Conference 2017

How We Value, Choose, and Use Technology in Education

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Metaphors surround us in art, literature, and in our conceptualization of education. These powerful tools help us understand what we do, why we do it, and who does what to or for whom. I will present some of the metaphors used as models for understanding education and for integrating education technology in language teaching. How do the core meanings of these metaphors contribute to wise or unwise choices as teachers? While they may be helpful at times, some of those most frequently employed may be harmful. The neo-liberalism inherent in a “race to the top” with winners and losers, and a track from base failure to the pinnacle of success is not hard to spot. Have we accepted other judgements that we might object to? This talk will address these questions and offer some alternative metaphors for applying technology to education.

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Invited Second Session

Importing Content and Language Integrated Learning to Japan

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Higher education in Japan is going through yet another period of change. As universities respond to changing needs of students and society, some are looking abroad for new approaches. One example is the increase in interest in Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) over the past several years. This is closely related to government initiatives for globalization in education, competition amongst universities, and growth of English medium of instruction (EMI) at the undergraduate level. But how well does it travel? Much of the early work in developing CLIL took place in European primary and secondary education, so how does CLIL fit in its new home halfway around the world? Understanding and application of this approach necessarily changes as it enters other contexts, but what does implementation in Japan have to offer to the wider community of CLIL teachers?

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Biographical Sketch

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Ted O’Neill is a professor at Gakushuin University, Tokyo, in the Faculty of International Social Sciences. He has previously taught at the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Tokyo Medical and Dental University and J. F. Oberlin University. Ted was co-editor of The Language Teacher for the Japan Association for Language Teaching (JALT) and later served on the JALT National Board of Directors as Director of Public Relations from 2012 to 2016. He currently serves as Vice-President for The International Academic Forum (IAFOR), an academic organization dedicated to encouraging international, intercultural, and  interdisciplinary research and practice. He received an MA in ESL and bilingual education from the University of Massachusetts/Boston, USA, in 1996 and completed a postgraduate Certificate of Educational Technology and Information Literacy through the Graduate School of Education at the State University of New York in 2014. You can often find him on Twitter @gotanda.

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Invited Panel Discussion

The Future of Face-to-Face Conferences in the Digital Era

Panelist: Ted O'Neill

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Resources on the Web: Ted O'Neill

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Introductory Video: Ted O'Neill ㅡ Getting Ready for KOTESOL 2017
(At bottom of this page)

KOTESOL TEC Interview with Ted O'Neill
(PDF attached at bottom of this page.)

Video: Connections Between Psychology and Instruction (with Prof. Stephen Ryan, Waseda University, Japan)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-Zx2RgXJbI&t=28s

Video: Content Creation and Technology in the Classroom (with Curtis Ho, University of Hawai'i at Manoa)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuoY8tCA7aM&t=166s

Video: Motivation in Language Learning (with Prof. Kay Irie, Gakushuin University, Tokyo)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iPqvC-q5fg

Video: The Flynn Effect: Technology and the New Education Paradigm (with Prof. David Passig)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foCCXSOLi60

Twitter: https://twitter.com/gotanda

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tedoneill/

SlideShare: https://www.slideshare.net/tedoneill

Personal Website: https://eltted.com
 
University Faculty Page
http://www.univ.gakushuin.ac.jp/iss/en/program/faculty/t005.html

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