Digital Wellbeing For Language Learners & Teachers

With ever more aspects of our (professional) lives being mediated through technology, it is increasingly important that we identify where technology is having a negative impact on our own and our learners’ wellbeing. In addition to widely-held concerns about privacy and security, in the last two years teachers have experienced such challenges as digital distraction, digital disorder and digital disarray (Hanin, 2021), adding a significant burden to workload and job satisfaction.

However, despite its serious drawbacks, the negative influences of technology can be managed. The field of ‘positive computing’, for example, has a number of important insights into how we can raise our awareness of our own and others’ practices and how we can work towards ‘digital wellbeing’. In this practical talk I will share some of these insights and offer practical suggestions for how teachers can integrate notions of wellbeing into their own and their communities’ digital lives.

Activity

Workshop

Mode

Online

Date

Oct 21, 2022 (1 year ago)

Schedule

17:30 - 19:00

Quota

Virtual Available

Hayo Reinders

Anaheim University

Dr. Hayo Reinders (www.innovationinteaching.org) is TESOL Professor and Director of the doctoral programme at Anaheim University in the USA and Professor of Applied Linguistics at KMUTT in Thailand. Hayo is Editor of the journal Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching (published by Taylor & Francis) and edits a book series on “New Language Learning and Teaching Environments”. He founded the Institute for Teacher Leadership. His interest are in teacher empowerment, learner autonomy, and educational technology.