Teaching tool codified gestures - Can more people learn more? Experiences with the Earth Speakr app from digital teacher training

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dc.contributor.authorJanzen-Ulbricht, Natasha
dc.date.accessioned2023-01-30T14:51:42Z
dc.date.available2023-01-30T14:51:42Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.abstractDuring spring of the academic year 2020-2021, the English Didactics department of the Freie Universität Berlin offered a seminar on drama pedagogy. Given the pandemic and a syllabus which promised future teachers ‘teaching through actual classroom practice’ it was decided to take the in-person sessions between university students and grade six students online. The result of these collaborative drama lab sessions were Earth Speakr messages which, after being practiced online, were recorded in person at school in the Earth Speakr app by the English teacher, a university student assistant and the course instructor. Once uploaded, these messages become part of the global Earth Speakr artwork initiated by the artist and climate activist Olafur Eliasson. This article lays out some of the parameters, contexts and challenges of the sessions. These are complemented by individual reflections as well as outstanding questions for further research. Linguistic actions used in performative teaching, such as acting during an online guessing game or using gestures to practice pronouncing a word can have transformative effects. Even during pandemic times, there is evidence that these experiences can help learners and teachers to connect and find their own place in the social worlds they move in.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
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dc.identifier.citationJanzen-Ulbricht, N. (2022) 'Teaching tool codified gestures - Can more people learn more? Experiences with the Earth Speakr app from digital teacher training', Scenario: A Journal for Performative Teaching, Learning, Research, XVI(2), pp. 21-40. https://doi.org/10.33178/scenario.16.2.2en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.33178/scenario.16.2.2
dc.identifier.endpage40
dc.identifier.issn1649-8526
dc.identifier.issued2
dc.identifier.journalabbrevScenarioen
dc.identifier.journaltitleScenario: A Journal for Performative Teaching, Learning, Researchen
dc.identifier.startpage21
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/14165
dc.identifier.volume16
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherDepartment of German, University College Corken
dc.relation.urihttps://journals.ucc.ie/index.php/scenario/article/view/scenario-16-2-2
dc.rights© 2022, the Author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
dc.subjectGestureen
dc.subjectPandemic timesen
dc.subjectTeacher trainingen
dc.subjectDigital teachingen
dc.subjectLanguage learningen
dc.subjectArt in educationen
dc.titleTeaching tool codified gestures - Can more people learn more? Experiences with the Earth Speakr app from digital teacher trainingen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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