dynamic classroom vanessa tu ( 杜佩璇 ). un-confident qualified? subject matterswhy?
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Dynamic Classroom
Vanessa Tu ( 杜佩璇 )
un-confident
Qualified?
Subject mattersWhy?
• Purpose: • ESP teachers: to conquer the fear and the feeling
of inadequacy of teaching ESP courses.
• Student-centered teaching/learning
• 2 activities
• 4 essential elements
• Dynamic classroom
Activity 1.
Activity 1. Reading
• 【 Reading 】 : IT, 3D facial recognition system
• 【 Total of time 】 : 20 minutes
• 【 Grouping 】 : Yes; 5 ppl./group
• 【 Handout 】 : Yes; Matching of Paragraph & Main Idea
The following sentences are the main ideas of each paragraph. Fill in the paragraph number (1.~10.) on the left with its corresponding main idea.
Paragraph Main Idea
5 Images may be captured by scanning an existing 2D photo or by using video.
2 Each template will then be translated into a unique code.
6 At the stage, the goal is to verify who the subject is.
1A 3D facial recognition software is gaining more and more attention due to its higher accuracy to identify a subject by capturing the most differential features of each face.
4 The system measures the curves of the face on a delicate scale and creates a template accordingly.
33D facial recognition systems go through a series of steps, such as detection, alignment, measurement, representation, matching, verification, to verify the identity of an individual.
1. Handout each student.
2. Discuss with partners.
Individual work
Group discussion
Activity 1. Steps
CompetitionIncentives
Incentives
All correct 3 tallies
1~2 errors 1 tally
3 or more errors 0
1. Handout each student.
2. Discuss with partners.
3. Each group hands in 1 paper to T.
4. [2nd Level: Collocation] - Find as many collocations as they can. - Individual Group- Draw lots (decide which group and which number)
Individual work
Group discussion
Activity 1. Steps
Activity 2.
Activity 2. Speaking
• 【 Speaking 】 : IT, Android science
• 【 Total of time 】 : 50 minutes
• 【 Warming up 】 : Movie A.I.
• 【 Grouping 】 : Yes; 5 ppl./group
• 【 Handout 】 : No; Questions designed by T.
• 【 Competition 】 : Yes
• 【 Incentive 】 : Yes
Background Story of Movie A.I.• Those were the years after the ice caps had melted because
of the greenhouse gases, and the oceans had risen to drown so many cities along all the shorelines of the world. Amsterdam. Venice. New York. Forever lost.
• Millions of people were displaced, climate became chaotic. Hundreds of millions of people starved in poorer countries. Elsewhere, a high degree of prosperity survived when most governments in the developed world introduced legal sanctions to strictly license pregnancies, which was why robots, who were never hungry and who did not consume resources beyond those of their first manufacture, were so essential an economic link in the chain mail of society.
3 Steps
1. [Vocab] Introduce the important
words
2. [Background] Watch the movie clip
3. [Speaking] Talk about the content
Ask
QuestionsOpen, Thought-provoking
Moral Questions
How to conduct? • Each group member,
speak; own responsibility
Q: If a robot child could genuinely love you, would you love him back?
1st
studentIntroduce + 1 reason
2nd 1 reason
3rd 1 reason
4th 1 reason
5th Conclude (+ 1 reason)
What about
Q.2: Can you love 多拉ㄟ夢 back? Why or why not?
In-depth DiscussionQ: If you can choose, which one of the following would you choose?
(1) Your own boy (a real one) but he is extremely disobedient and contradict you all the time, or
(2) A robot-child that genuinely loves you and takes good care of you until you die.
• Choose 1: “To continue the family bloodline is one of life's most important things.”
• Choose 2: “At the moment I bought it, I decided to love it.“
Elements
1. Individual work
2. Group discussion
3. Competition
4. Incentives (Participation:
80%↑)
4
Ask
QuestionsOpen, Thought-provoking
Student-centered