Michael Rogge (ZfsL Gelsenkirchen) inspired us with a lecture on new teaching techniques in the EFL classroom. He explained possible teaching scenarios in which team learning strategies used in private companies can be integrated. The shift in educational value from factual knowledge to human competencies is a change that the modern foreign language teacher must face. Our guest speaker presented practical ideas on how to foster social and technical skills to adapt to the digitised environment they will soon be working in.