The endeavor in this post conference interview is to explore how we can add an interactive dimension to pedagogy and educational objectives and delve deeply into the pandemic shock to education and discern its remedies.
The key questions posed in this interview are as follows:
What the learning crisis before the pandemic was
How has the pandemic aggravated it
What the meaning of Covid -19 as a force majeure event means
Why Covid-19 language has been called a “language in the making”
What the pedagogical implications of this new Covid-19 vocabulary /language are along with examples of neologisms, collocations, acronyms and lexical blending
What are some strategies of certain global organizations like Unesco to address “the new normal” in tomorrow’s education after Covid-19
What the 4 parameters of recovery plan involve (academic/physical /fiscal/psychological)
How reskilling and upskilling may be achieved
What the Covid-19 challenges to the Indian Education system are in terms of online tutorials, the digital divide, and the paradigm shift in education
The interview concludes with a brief advisory message to the global student population so that they may not lose hope and come out of this pandemic stronger.
Vassilakou Evangelia has a BA in Philosophy from Deree College - The American College of Greece, and an MA in Applied Linguistics from the Hellenic American University with high distinction. She is an experienced English for Academic Purposes (EAP), English for Specific Purposes (ESP) and English as a Foreign Language (EFL) instructor with an expertise in teaching EFL exam classes for more than 20 years. She has presented in numerous conferences in Greece and abroad (Cyprus, Malta, Bulgaria, and Spain) and authored various articles for the ELT news magazine, TESOL Greece, and the Scientific Journal of Applied Languages and Linguistics. She has been recently awarded the title of The Distinguished Educator 2020 by The Education Leaders Awards 2020.
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Vassilakou Evangelia has a BA in Philosophy from Deree College - The American College of Greece, and an MA in Applied Linguistics from the Hellenic American University with high distinction. She is an experienced English for Academic Purposes (EAP), English for Specific Purposes (ESP) and English as a Foreign Language (EFL) instructor with an expertise in teaching EFL exam classes for more than 20 years. She has presented in numerous conferences in Greece and abroad (Cyprus, Malta, Bulgaria, and Spain) and authored various articles for the ELT news magazine, TESOL Greece, and the Scientific Journal of Applied Languages and Linguistics. She has been recently awarded the title of The Distinguished Educator 2020 by The Education Leaders Awards 2020.
This is a space for collective research, observation and conversation on how communication and social interaction are changing during the global pandemic, to envisage possible futures.
These pandemic times are changing the ways in which we all communicate and interact with others - and this is affecting everybody (similarly and differently) worldwide.
We are a group of semioticians based in different countries worldwide. We study meaning making, communication and social interaction.
This website is a place for publishing our reflections and starting public forms of conversation with everybody who is interested in gathering and sharing observations on the changes affecting our communications and interactions, in all spheres, as well as how people cope with these changes.
We want to reflect on and assess these changes, to start thinking about the implications for the future. By mapping what we gain and what we lose in the way we communicate and interact with others, we can trace the opportunities and possibilities as well as the dangers and threats, to try to share and promote good practices and policies, to minimize risks for the future of social interactions, and design new and better futures.
This is a space for collective research, observation and conversation on how communication and social interaction are changing during the global pandemic, to envisage possible futures.
These pandemic times are changing the ways in which we all communicate and interact with others - and this is affecting everybody (similarly and differently) worldwide.
We are a group of semioticians based in different countries worldwide. We study meaning making, communication and social interaction.
This website is a place for publishing our reflections and starting public forms of conversation with everybody who is interested in gathering and sharing observations on the changes affecting our communications and interactions, in all spheres, as well as how people cope with these changes.
We want to reflect on and assess these changes, to start thinking about the implications for the future. By mapping what we gain and what we lose in the way we communicate and interact with others, we can trace the opportunities and possibilities as well as the dangers and threats, to try to share and promote good practices and policies, to minimize risks for the future of social interactions, and design new and better futures.
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