As you watch Prof. Areiza Lecture last week, think about the central transformation that lecture is calling for in the way we should conceive language teaching today. Complement this discussion with the new challenges for ICT and language learning posed in the three articles below:
Barnes, K., Marateo, R., & Ferris, S. (2007). Teaching and learning with the net generation. Innovate, 3(4). Retrieved from http://uruguayeduca.edu.uy/Userfiles/P0001/File/Teaching_and_Learning_with_the_Net_Generation.pdf
Please post here your mind maps and comments regarding Barnes, K., Marateo, R., & Ferris, S. (2007) reading.
Mora R. A. (2011, August). Challenges and Opportunities for Literacy and Technology in ELT Teacher Education. Keynote Presentation at the 2nd Colloquia on Research and Innovation in Foreign Language Education 2011, Bogotá D.C., Colombia. Retrieved from http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED547648.pdf
How could we as preservice teachers adapt education to our students' needs nowadays bearing in mind the characteristic of obiquitous learning, in a world everytime more multimodal?
Mora, R. (2014a).
Technology, digital literacies, and language ecologies. Rethinking the
intersection between technology, digitalliteracies and Language Ecologies.
Enletawa Journal (7), pages 115-128. https://www.academia.edu/13823015/Rethinking_the_intersection_between_technology_digital_literacies_and_language_ecologies
we as teachers must know and understand that students have different learning styles, and today there are many ways in which a person can access to the knowledge, we must find the way to teach our students but taking into account the different methods and methodologies that exist to teach something.
ResponderEliminarThat's right Estefany, bearing in mind students' needs is key for today's education. Nevertheless, placing the importance of teachers as a guide for the reaching of those educative goals.
ResponderEliminarAt the present time, we have to take into account that there are massive amounts of information, media and technology. So, as it is mentioned in the document, teachers must learn to adapt to these new realities and “they have to face the contradiction of combining the integration of these new technologies”. There is when comes the need to learn the appropriate skills to access, evaluate, use and manage the information, which is not only in the internet. Information now is multimodal because of the different communication modes are combined. In that sense, I think that this is the real way in which we as preservice teachers adapt education to our students’ needs and are involved in their learning process.
ResponderEliminarI think you got the hang of this Daniela, since we as teachers must assure our students with proper guidance given the fact that internet provides all kind of information and our job is helping them get the most appropriate.
Eliminarrelated to the firs question, about adapting educations, at college, to the students' needs under the concept of the obiquitous. I got this.
ResponderEliminarWell!, Since learning doesn’t happen in isolation -it is social-
We both, teachers and students are invited to rethink how social networks and online environments bring about new forms of involvement and expression. I mean, we must be more collaborative and sharing. Like making new learning scenarios everywhere we go or stay, besides and beyond classroom.
By engaging teaching, learning, technology and literacy.
That is what the concept of obiquitous means for me, I think!
But, achieving this stems from the challenge of being able to work together, right by turning our routinary academic communities into true collaborative spaces.
I like that idea of building academic community Hugo, I think is it key that since our experience as preservice teachers we should cooperate with others so we may construct knowledge together. Unfortunately, there are so many preservice and inservice who like to work isolately which leaves us the challenge of turning this reality around.
Eliminar"Our role was that of facilitators and critical
ResponderEliminarreaders. Our class discussions aimed at discovering how to use the WebQuests as a technological
tool that allowed preservice teachers to feel more comfortable bringing the Internet into their
classrooms." in this quote Dr Mora says that we have to be a guide for the students. in my opinion it's right because like we said in the internet we can find wrong information, or the class could be just a copy and paste like the document says, thats why the teacher has to be in all the process in this "internet classes".
Alright Wbeimar, now my question goes towards deciphering, how are we going to deal with those students who trust more what they see online than what is given to them by their professor? Is it perhaps the lack of preparation from teachers what makes them sometimes unrealiable?
Eliminarlanguage users with the implementation of technology in not only educational context have been able to learn in a very different way than it was customary as it is now less relevant than a teacher to teach on a board because through internet and the technological tools, people can "connect with knowledge"
ResponderEliminarEstefany, How are you going to help with the transition of moving from a traditional classroom to the use of technological tools? without just doing it in terms of only gadgets but to understand what this change really entails.
EliminarAs for the second question, a language user may be influenced by differents facts. for example, we all know one of the threats for a language user has been the fact of the physical boundaries. where many learners have improved their alleged proficiency by having immersions abroad. what it is expensive or almost imposible for many. now with the ICTs, Problem Solved!
ResponderEliminarand in addition, a language user may not just share his points of view or personal ideas confidently, but also may be an outstanding member in a community of affinity, without taking care of his social status. taking into account, he won't even need to show his real profile.
Language has no borders, in this way language becomes realistic and authentic.
beyond this, the use of multimodal tools for communication and text creation helps the composing really easy in more imaginative ways, while sharing with a much broader audience ever considered.
in a nutshell, the user may get considered himself as a king, if he wished to.
and for instance, if he chose to call himself AKING in his profile name,
and then, if anybody would ask: "Hey buddy, how come you're called AKING?
- Man, because, it's good to be Aking! xD.
Hugo, this sounds really idealistic, but how are we going to convince our students of such reality??? How possible would that be???
EliminarA method is like a paradigm: It works, its useful and is generally accepted... but for a period of time. As time passes by, the method starts to become less useful.
ResponderEliminarI think the important thing here has to do with how we are going to approach our students.
One teacher asked us how much English we learned in school, almost everyone agreed not much. I believe this is because the teacher has to handle a lot of students and tries using the same method for all of them.
Regardless of whether or not our experience with english in a school was good or bad, it is still an experience that will be stored in our brains and an example of what could and what could not work.
Its really hard to tell, I believe a teacher must study carefully the place where he has to teach and aproach his students in the way he considers the best.
Regarding the 2nd question, I'll say a lot...
Why? the use of so much technology, the addiction to mass media things and all that is what most differences this generation from the previous ones.
Well Esteban, I have this scenario for you: what about if the teacher prepares well their lessons making them appealing to their students but still they do not get their students to be committed to learn? What would you do then?
Eliminarwhat age is it? Of course,we are in an age where technology plays an important prestige. Students now dedicate more time to his cell, reading a book that why? because the technology is very easy to handle and manage to get all possible care of the child or student, what should we do as teachers? get all his attention on a classroom trouhgt technology of course in this case it is teaching a foreign language or whatever area too. unfortunately the time of the books and write by hand is over, beacuse the age progress over time, so tha´s why we must also progress and make education a prestige easy, fun and entertaining.
ResponderEliminarPaulina, your answer is quite interesting, more so coming from a teacher. I totally disagree that books and writing must disappear leaving open space for technologies to play a unique role. I believe traditional instruments continue being a very important part in today's world, eventhough technology is claiming its space. Perhaps, don't you think most people nowadays are having difficulties when writing or reading because they are just not used to do it anymore?
EliminarFirst and foremost, it is important to know that the basis of the language is the interaction, and that’s exactly one of the functions of technology, it allows to use the language in different ways, although the use has a clear purpose, intecommunication.
ResponderEliminar“The use of online, digital, and internet technology has the potential to expand the boundaries of our imagination”. So, a language user has been influenced by implementation of ICTs in the manner that communicates through different spaces that are not only physical.Virtual spaces are also models of education.
That's exactly what we have to be mindful of, Daniela. ICTs are giving us the opportunity to interact with our peers regardless of physical limitations as we had them in the past. ICTs help us potentialize education to their max and reach those we couldn't before.
EliminarI believe that teachers must be one step ahead from the students about technology, cause the teachers has to be the guide, as many of my classmates has said, to use this too in favor that media offers to our generation. Prof. Mora says that we have to maximize technology for the literacy development at the classroom and we as teachers have to bet to technology as a helper and not as a distracter for our students. That’s why we have to lead the way of those proposals that are emerging more and more in classrooms, and the strategies that Professors are developing, like Prof. Mora, that helps to improve the experience of the students.
ResponderEliminarI agree Felipe, especially, where you mentioned the ICTs as potentializers and not as distractors for literacy development. Now the question goes towards those students who missuse ICTs as an excuse for accessing knowledge faster. Should we worry because they are doing it with other purposes? What do you think?
EliminarHi group!!! =)
ResponderEliminarWe as preservice teachers need to know that every day the education is more multimodal, not only for the implementation of ICTs, also because the technology today is very important even changed the traditional teaching of the second language. Now is very different years ago; now the teachers have that to know about multimodality tools, because with this is most easy for the teacher teaching as for the student learning. With this we have differents ways for the teaching and learning of the second language.
Now the students not only practice english in the classroom, for example the students now practice the english (or another language) themselves out at school, because they are constantly watching videos in english, practice listening music, and also play video games. This tools are important for the teachers, if we used this tools in class, so the students will have differents ways for learning and also will enjoy the english practice. So for this is very important that we as teachers have knowledge about the internet, webquest, blogs, etc. Because today the students have different learning styles.
Good Johan, what ICTs do for us, it is empowering with new and more powerful tools to reach that public that before was unreachable. Likewise, offer different moments and places to practice the target language so it is inexcusable to do it anymore.
Eliminari think that one of the most important aspects for introduce ICT´s in classroom is identifying the different capacities of our students , taking into account which of the mass media is more effective for the transmitting of the knowledge. We know that this generation have great manage of the medias literacies, but is important know what of these literacies provides the tools that we need to explain a specific topics. For example I cannot use music for implementing ICT´s in a class where I want to teach grammatical.
ResponderEliminarConcluding, I believe that all students have different capacities whit the technology, but , the idea is not introduce ICT’s only for accomplishing it, the idea is to make that these literacies can help the different process according whit the variable capacities of all classmates in each one of the class topics. If I need to teach listening or speaking fluency I can use music like a tool; if I want to teach grammatical I can use a power point presentation or texting ; is I need to teach other cultures I can promote the use of social webs for interacting whit people around the world.
Andres, doesn't this resemble the model of New School?; where students who present different needs and interests are provided with a proper model for knowledge acquisition. I also believe that is one of the advantages of ICTs since they allow us to be more multimodal and multitasking as we progress at our own pace.
Eliminar1. We are the teachers that are living the generation where the use of technology is almost mandatory because we are trying to leave a legacy with a easy way to understand it and the technology nowadays is giving us that opportunity improve it day by day and turn it into one the education. That will make the students learn in a different way that even they can take as their own and evolve it into new knowledge.
ResponderEliminar2.ICT's are taking over in almost everything that refers to learning strategies and languages are the most requested topic that is why everything is becoming easier to use. Is not a fact of taking shortcuts to learn and that's it, the task of the language users is to make something about the knowledge that is acquired and evolve it day by day into something we call the future...that's why since long time ago we haven't stopped evolving.
So, how are you going to make ICTs to back you up when teaching a target language, so it is not taken just as a fashionable tool or learning strategy?
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