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Jos Luis Morales Montevideo, February 2013.!

Teaching English to Digital

Natives: From the Virtual tothe Real ...and Back!

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The world will be dramaticallydifferent tomorrow

How so?

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Dictionaries and libraries;two (disturbing ?)examples

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YouTube and TED;two encouraging examples

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Must learning and teaching bedramatically different too?

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From thevirtual

Affiliations: e.g. Facebook!Expressions: e.g. mashups!Collaborative problem-solving:e.g. Online Gaming, Wikipedia!Circulations: e.g. blogging !

Jenkins, H. et al (2006)!

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What do digital natives do?

DECIDE!INTEGRATE DIFFERENT

MEDIA!GENERATE CONTENT!INTERACT W/OTHERS !TAKE RESPONSIBILITY!ACT ROLES!LEARN & PLAY!

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to the real

TASK 1

On a scale from 1-5 where 5 is the best, how

good are YOU at promoting opportunitiesfor D I G I T AL in your classes? Gradeyourself and then share with a partner.

Explain your grade.

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AI!

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I!A!

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G!L!

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and back.

Youth must expand their requiredcompetences, not push aside old skills to

make room for the new.Jenkins, H. et al (2006)

Digital natives are also immigrants of

the alphabetic culture.

Balaguer, R. (2010)

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Demand-high teaching:

Its ok to teach. Its ok to help the students get better.You have permission to be an active interventionist.

Jim Scrivener, BRAZTESOL Rio de Janeiro, 2012.

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References

Balaguer, R. (Ed), 2010. Uruguay: Una computadora para cadanio. Plan Ceibal, Los ojos del mundo en el primer modelo OLPC aescala nacional. Pearson, LA.!

Jenkins, H. et al, 2006. Confronting the challenges of participatoryculture: Media Education in the XXIst Century http://digitallearning.macfound.org/atf/cf/%7B7E45C7E0-A3E0-4B89-AC9C-E807E1B0AE4E%7D/JENKINS_WHITE_PAPER.PDF !

Prensky, M. 2010, Teaching Digital Natives. Partnering for RealLearning. Corwin, Thousand Oaks California.!

The material in slide 8 taken from Our Discovery Island,Students Book 1 by Morales, J.L. et al, 2011 Published byPearson, UK. !