In my methodology courses I always mention 21st century learning and emphasise the need to change the way we teach. Here are some sources explaining what is 21st century learning and discussing how actually classrooms should look like today.
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IATED stands for International Academy of Technology, Education and Development, an organism organising different international events to improve education in the field of Technology and Science. I have got two publications from the conferences they organised: One on the self-efficacy beliefs of pre-service teachers in relation to technology integration and one on the effects of technology training on the attitudes of Turkish EFL teachers.
On their website, there is a section called IATED Talks. You can watch some of the plenary sessions from different conferences for free.
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The website “Teacher Training Videos” by Russell Stannard provides teachers with training videos instructing them how to use ICT tools such as blogs, wikis, IWBs, podcasts, etc. in education. Russell Stannard is a trainer in ICT and Education and has a number of publications on ICT in education.
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As teachers, we need to be inspired so that we can actually inspire our students. TED Talks aim to “spark creativity” in teachers and challenge them to think differently. Here are some talks that might be inspiring for teachers. Please feel free to add other inspirational talks as a comment. Thank you.
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British Council shares a number of downloadable books on its website. Books on professional development, ELT research and resource packs for teachers are available in pdf format to download. Here is the list of the books I suggest for reading. I will give brief information about each book. For more downloadable books please visit the British Council webpage.
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