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[Whistleblower]

Just throwing this idea out to see what response I get. Imagine, you stroll into work one day and you notice the photocopier is broken, the CD player has been stolen, and your board markers were left at home.

How do you teach a paperless/boardless lesson? Do you have any tricks teaching a planned paperless lesson? What has been your experience?

[edwardcatflap]

kids or adults?

[Whistleblower]

Either, but I am brainstorming for possible future lessons.

[Louis VI]

I never use multimedia (computer, CDs, tapes) and I use the white board minimally these days but I have an IV link to the photocopier and if it's broken they need to fix it STAT!

The best lessons have nothing between teacher and students, involve speaking and listening and active engagement without things in the way. It's harder to amintain because input material is needed at some point and it's mor einteresting to have variety, but a week or two of teaching without anything is fantastic, at the kindy, small class hagwon and adult conversation level.

[ippy]

Since i assume the purpose of this thread is really "oh crap!" lessons and not just no board markers et al.

You need a computer and a screen (and speakers) though or this wont really work.

Its a waste of time lesson for middle school which i occasionally bust out. The 'english' component is teaching them the romanization of hangeul (youd maybe be surprised at how few know this).
Anyways, make sure they practice with maybe writing their names, or a few names and converting them into english. Then when theyre all set put them into groups and give them a piece of paper, then go here and blow their minds:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyZPpwLZeag
(he has 4 or 5 mixes your kids will be interested in).

The aim is simple. The team with the most band names and song names wins.

As i say, no real english component, its the bottom of the barrel, but as an oh crap lesson goes, it keeps your kids happy and kills enough time for you to wing it.

I also agree with the guy or girl above. Some of my best lessons have involved the kids not doing the worksheet and just chatting on to me about nothing in particular. So long as theyre speaking english its all good

[ulsanchris]

I never used much technology to teach until this year. Technology can be useful but shouldn't be relied on too much or used just because it is there. To discount it out of hand is rather short sighted. True people have taught for centuries without it, but it can be a very useful tool for a teacher to use. Especially if it is used properly.

While not a paperless lesson, you can have students use blank paper to make cards and have them play card games that reinforce grammatical structures. The upside is that you don't have to do much prep. The downside is that the students spend most of their time making the cards.
At an EPIK seminar Sara Davila had some ideas about low prep lessons. You might find some at her website www.saradavila.com.

[ippy]

Also, if you want all your kids just sitting down and paying attention, this works too:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deoJUBW9CI8

im not sure how to turn it into a lesson lesson. I guess you could do some kind of chain chinese whispers ghost story (where you give them a sentence, and they write a follow up and fold all but their sentence up, then pass down the line, and the person at the end reads it to the class, then rotate the students until theyve all done the reading). I dunno, pulling stuff out my behind. If the class is noisy, i guarantee this has them all suddenly paying attention.

You could also teach them real/fiction if you like.

One of my friends also had amazing success with this piece of crap:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZN5PoW7_kdA

[Whistleblower]

Thanks for the replies. I am gonna check out those videos later. For those that want to know the specific term used for paperless lessons, it's called "Dogme".