Reconceptualizing and Recontextualizing Language Education and ICTs in the Classroom – An afterthought

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

How has a language user been influenced by the implementation of ICTs?

Week 1 (Jan 19-21) – Reconceptualizing and Recontextualizing Language Education and ICTs in the Classroom

Reconceptualizing and Recontextualizing Language Education and ICTs in the Classroom One of the goals of this course is to help preservice teachers gain a deeper understanding of everything that introducing ICTs/digital literacies/internet-based tasks entails. The central argument here is that we need to engage in an epistemological discussion about the use of these new media and digital literacy practices as the precursor of the instrumental work that will take place in the classroom, and not the other way around.

To engage in this work, students will initially watch Prof. Areiza lecture:

Lecture: Education in the Digital Era: More than technology use in the classroom by Prof. Hugo Areiza (Universidad del Valle)

Primera Parte

Segunda Parte

Use this space to write about your insights from Prof. Areiza lecture.