RBERNing Questions
RBERNing Questions is a professional learning podcast, produced by Mid-State RBERN, where we answer your most compelling questions about teaching, serving, and supporting multilingual learners. We connect teachers and leaders of English Language Learners (ELLs) and Multilingual Learners (MLs) with experts in our field who will address timely and specific questions relating to instructional practices, teacher collegiality, and outreach to students and their families.
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RBERNing Questions
Technology: A Bridge Between the Real World and the Classroom w/ Dr. Yu Jung Han
Episode Summary:
Dr. Yu Jung Han’s first interest in English came through music and wanting to understand lyrics. Having artists like Michael Jackson and New Kids on the Block as her first English teachers, then experiencing a heavily “textbook-based” style of learning before university, she was discouraged when the English she’d found in music didn’t match up to what her teachers said “was not what you learned from the textbook.” In this episode, find out how this experience led to her current goal in teaching, which is to create “a learning ecology that connects students in and out of classroom practice and life.” Dr. Han uses relatable analogies to explain the impact of tech and specifically Generative AI in education, and how we can manage it as educators. She also explains how she has encouraged students to use ChatGPT to augment their learning. If you’re looking for a way to refresh your perspective on technology in education, you can’t miss this episode!
RBERNing Questions for this Episode:
1- What drew you to the integration of tech and education and what are 3 effective ways you have used technology in or out of the classroom to enhance your students’ learning experiences?
2- Tell us about your work with the Center for Learning in the Digital Age (LIDA) and describe some of the digitally rich projects you’ve had the opportunity to work on.
3- What do you think are some of the biggest fears educators still might have about integrating more tech into their classrooms, and do you have advice to help them overcome these fears?
BIO:
Yu Jung Han is an avid traveler and a proud TESOLer with years of international teaching experience, first in her native country of Korea, and later in Japan and the United States. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow housed in the Center for Learning in the Digital Age (LiDA), with additional teaching responsibilities at the Warner School of Education, University of Rochester. Her primary research focus centers around the exploration of language learners' language use outside of the classroom, which is motivated by their personal interests. Her research is further categorized into several main areas, such as language learners’ motivation, identity development, and the utilization of technology for interest-driven practices, which has recently expanded into the realm of generative AI.
Resources:
Websites/Social Media:
https://sites.google.com/u.rochester.edu/yujunghan-efolio/home
LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/yu-jung-han-a8323a109/
Mentioned in this episode:
https://www.coursera.org/learn/prompt-engineering
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