{"id":9,"date":"2019-02-28T04:10:40","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T04:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skillacademy.education\/wordpress\/?p=9"},"modified":"2019-03-13T15:12:41","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T15:12:41","slug":"contextual-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skillacademy.education\/wordpress\/2019\/02\/28\/contextual-statement\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 1: Contextual Statement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the video below I explain why I am interested in digital technology for education (it involves a short story about a broken leg) and the context in which I teach (Okayama University in Japan).<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FENMk3qJScE?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p><em><strong>Other information<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>My partner (in life and for research), Keiko Sakui and I have written a book chapter on how we learned about the use of technology for education. It is a kind of extended contextual statement so if you have time and energy you can read it <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1PM_F8I1g4D3nqgqyjkjfFisa76Qf3G7w1Pl0JA5Aa9U\/edit?usp=sharing\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There is also a slideshow on the same topic that I made for a EUROCALL conference that you can view <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/presentation\/d\/1fnLYKALORHF02m6KGlUW9W4jyD6ZRwF9tfq9B18hZAk\/edit?usp=sharing\">here<\/a>. I gave the presentation on my own but there are some inserted videos with Keiko talking.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>References<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sakui, K., &amp; Cowie, N. (forthcoming). Language teacher learning in Japan: Joining a digital technology community of practice. In Y. Kimura, L. Yang &amp; T-Y Kim (Eds.) <em>Teacher Motivation, Autonomy, Development in the Far East<\/em>. New York: Springer Publishing Company.<\/p>\n<p>Cowie, N.\u00a0 (August 23rd, 2017). <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/open?id=0B782nuL7_dJ8bzJWR0JfU2ZnSHc\"><em>EFL teacher learning in Japan: Joining a digital community of practice.<\/em><\/a> Presentation at the EUROCALL Annual Conference. Southampton University, Southampton, UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the video below I explain why I am interested in digital technology for education (it involves a short story about a broken leg) and the context in which I teach (Okayama University in Japan). Other information My partner (in life and for research), Keiko Sakui and I have written a book chapter on how &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skillacademy.education\/wordpress\/2019\/02\/28\/contextual-statement\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Week 1: Contextual Statement&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,5,3,4,1],"tags":[9,10,7,8,6],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cmalt","category-digital-technology","category-efl","category-teacher-learning","category-uncategorized","tag-cmalt","tag-communities-of-practice","tag-digital-technology","tag-efl","tag-teacher-learning"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paK70f-9","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skillacademy.education\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skillacademy.education\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skillacademy.education\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skillacademy.education\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skillacademy.education\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.skillacademy.education\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103,"href":"https:\/\/www.skillacademy.education\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions\/103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skillacademy.education\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skillacademy.education\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skillacademy.education\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}