Thursday October 14th, 2021, 2:15–4:15pm

Instructors:

Stavroula Antonopoulou, Researcher
AUTh, Hellenic Open University

Athanasios Karasimos, Researcher
DARIAH-GR Network-Apollonis of the Academy of Athens

Abstract

In recent years, a large number of digital media has been developed, which could be used in the humanities, at any level of education, from primary to tertiary. What is most important is not the tool per se but how it is used didactically and thus what the roles of the teacher and students are. The aim of this seminar is to present different ways of the educational use of digital media and games in the humanities, while the seminar will end with an interactive activity through which participants will experiment with multiple digital tools through playful learning. 

Instructors’ Bios

Stavroula Antonopoulou is a graduate of the Department of Philology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh), in which she continued with her studies on a Master and Doctorate level, in the subject of Applied Linguistics. She has participated in research projects of the Center for the Greek Language and AUTh, and she has been a teacher-trainer in programs of CTI Diophantus with a focus on the implementation of ICT in language education. She was an instructor at the University of Nicosia and the Hellenic Open University of the subject “Technology and Language Education”, with relevant publications. During the last years, she has been actively teaching Greek as a foreign/second language but also humanities subjects in secondary education.

Athanasios Karasimos has graduated from the Department of Philology, University of Patras. He has two European Masters in Speech and Language Processing (one of which at the University of Edinburgh); his doctoral dissertation is in the field of Computational Morphology (Department of Philology, University of Patras). He was a member of the Laboratory of Modern Greek Dialects and participated in several research projects on Modern Greek dialects, corpora, aphasic speech, and training of English language teachers. He was a fellow postdoctoral researcher at the Board of Greek State Scholarships Foundation (IKY). He has taught since 2012 at HOU, AUTh and EKPA various modules such as Educational Technology in English teaching, Research Methodology, Computational Linguistics, Corpus Linguistics, and Teaching Vocabulary. He has been a researcher in the National Infrastructure for Digital Humanities DARIAH-GR/DYAS (Digital Humanities) as a member of the Academy of Athens team since 2014. His research interests focus on computational linguistics and machine learning, the use of corpora, educational technology, and using video and board games in classrooms.