Dictogloss: Interactive students, inactive whiteboard

An idea that I presented last week at the annual IH Barcelona ELT Conference, in my talk on Dogme and the Interactive Whiteboard.

Dogme ELT argues that the best approach to language teaching is "materials-light", which is not exactly what you are going to get if you use a digital coursebook on an interactive whiteboard.

Rather than doing that, a dictoglossed single text gives you a "materials-light" class, with the learners interactive and the IWB inactive (sic), which is surely exactly what we should be aiming for...

See also How to make your Interactive Whiteboard interactive