Using CALL Tools in an Integrated Skills Approach: Igniting the 4Cs (Critical Thinking, Communication, Collaboration, and Creativity) with the SDGs
To prepare students for future challenges and enhance their language learning, educators must find innovative ways to incorporate CALL tools in the classroom to promote the 4Cs: critical thinking, communication, collaboration, and creativity. Using the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a framework for project-based learning encourages students to develop creative solutions to real-world problems, fosters critical reflection, and helps students develop social and intercultural skills, leading to a collaborative classroom experience. By incorporating multimedia resources, including AI language generators, vlogs, and animations, students can be taught to responsibly use these tools to generate ideas and visually represent their complex solutions, thus enhancing their 4C competencies. This workshop will specify how to design scaffolded projects incorporating the SDGs for intermediate to advanced level students using free CALL tools that can be effectively integrated in both virtual and face-to-face learning settings, namely ChatGPT, CapCut and Powtoon. Participants should bring their devices so they can participate in guided tutorials, hands-on practice and experiment with these tools in micro-projects. Assessment rubrics, worksheets and student exemplars will be shared. Finally, there will be a discussion on participants' experiences and ideas for prospective projects using these CALL tools.