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The project goal: to equip Kazakhstani citizens with tools necessary to access all types of media in the 21st century and discern real from fake news 

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American English for Media Literacy in Kazakhstan

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American English for Media Literacy in Kazakhstan

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5 components:
1. Module tasks
2. Offline facilitated sessions to consolidate language and extended discussion with a wide range of traditional interactive tasks and web 2.0 apps
3. Forum discussion on Coursera with a facilitator initiated problem solving task
4. AE for Educators webinars on student-centered and blended teaching
5. Feedback on Facebook group to reveal participants' uptake
Extention activity for ML lesson plans are at https://kaz-tea.kz/en/resources/lesson-plans/ae4ml

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Upgrading facilitator's skills via facilitator's training at the Online Teacher Community  program and research project with the Buektov University

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Within the Online Teacher Community plaltform and Future English program run by the British Council with BC specialists KazTEA facilitators were equipped with techniques to encourage problem-solving, open-ended questions and techniques, e.g. "sandwich technique", modeling answer, etc. for zoom sessions and Forum discussions on OTC platform. The facilitator's role is under investigation within the research project with Karaganda Buketov University and focused at MOOC facilitating within Kazakhstan context with its challanges in technical, pedagogical issues and attotude to TPD.

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The prime goal was to raise awareness of EFL teachers of MOOC program and its resources as well as equip with facilitating techniques to support TPD via MOOC.
3 components : 1)  Module tasks
2) off-line facilitated sessions  to consolidate language (with board games, web apps) and extend content knowledge (with group discussions, surveys, mingle activities) for the teachers to complete open-ended assignements.
3) American English for Educators webinars to enhance student-centered teaching
Off-line sessions were shifted to online on zoom, google meet, jitsi or WhatsApp platforms due to various internet literacy skills and internet security issues

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Challenges to implement Connectivism in Kazakhstan

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Challenges to implement Connectivism in Kazakhstan

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Main challenges refer to technical issues: low internet capacicities, lack of digital devices, poor internet literacy;
pedagogical challenges: instructions are written for paper-based materials, teachers mostly apply web-apss with options to control language but not teaching HOTs skills
attitude to TPD: for a certificate

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Connectivism as a learning approach in digital era

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Connectivism as a learning approach in digital era

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Connectvism as learning from internet and via networking addresses various learning styles and encourages peer-learning. Students are expectd to be autunomous in learning, motivated with self-regulated and time-management skills. This theory is targeted at high-order thinking skills via open and creative tasks

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Enabling Context-Driven Digital Learning with KazTEA Facilitators

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Enabling Context-Driven Digital Learning with KazTEA Facilitators

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The presentation discusses the facilitators' role to meet the diversity of teachers' needs, capacities and their internet-literacy skills within professional development via MOOCs

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Enabling Context-Driven Digital Life-Long Learning with KazTEA Facilitators

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Enabling Context-Driven Digital Life-Long Learning with KazTEA Facilitators