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Escaping the digital cage: Balancing tech and talk in the modern language classroom

Name: Escaping the digital cage: Balancing tech and talk in the modern language classroom
Start: 2026-10-22T15:00:00.000Z

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Type: Webinar
Format: Online
Date: 22 October 2026, 17:00 (CEST)
Price: Free

While screens and projectors have been around for a long time in language teaching (remember the Overhead Projector, or the Slide projector??), they have become increasingly ubiquitous in the past ten years. This talk addresses how language teaching may have changed as a result of increased 'screen time’. How much screen time is too much? Is technology in risk of dominating too much in today’s classrooms, especially with all the hype around AI?
Drawing on examples from my new secondary coursebook, Potential, I’d like to propose a way of looking at lesson planning that ensures a balance of working styles and appropriate use of technology in the communicative classroom equipped with a projector and a screen. The ideas presented can be adapted to a wide range of teaching levels.

Speakers

Lindsay Clandfield

Lindsay Clandfield is a teacher, teacher trainer, and multiple award-winning author. He is one of the main authors of Helbling's adult course STUDIO, as well as Helbling's latest course for upper-secondary, POTENTIAL. Lindsay is a frequent plenary speaker at international conferences and has been involved in many creative online projects from blogging to podcasting. He's interested in appropriate classroom use of technology and multimedia. Lindsay lives in Spain with his family, where he enjoys cycling, walking and boardgaming.