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21st Century Learning

New Technologies in TEFL

Mitzi Downing, Ed.D.

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Todays education system facesirrelevance unless we bridge thegap between how youth live and

how they learn.

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The Internet Revolution

Each day there are:

[ 2 million new web pages

[ 10 billion instant messages

[ 19 billion email messages and 12 billion spam messages

[ The web is doubling in size every 120 days

[ 80% of the sites that WILL exist a year from now

dont exist today

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Youth Today . . .

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The Net Generation

[ Born between 1982 and2000

[ Ctrl + Alt + Del is asbasic as ABC

[ Fascinated with newtechnologies

[ Computers havealways been in their

backpacks

[ Photographs havealways been processed inan hour or less

[ They have never

known life without aStarbucks

[ Bert & Ernie are oldenough to be their

parents

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In a Digital World

Youth need to learn to use the tools to master thelearning skills that are essential to everyday life andworkplace productivity. This proficiency is known as

ICT (Information Communications Technology).

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Tools to Develop Learning Skills

ICT literacy the interest, attitude, and ability . . . Toappropriately use digital technology and communication toolsto access, manage, integrate and evaluate information,construct new knowledge, and communicate with others in

order to participate effectively in society

Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA)

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Relevant

Use of New

Technologies

Meaningful

BeyondClassroom

Real World

Community

Connection

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Assessment[

A balance of assessments[ High quality standardized tests for accountability purposes

[ Classroom / Program assessments for improving teachingand learning

[ Use new information technologies to increase efficiency &timelines

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Questions

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Why use technology? Student can work on specific topics at

his/her own pace.

Immediate feedback on most on-linepractice sites.

Differentiated learning.

Different approach to languageacquisition.

Internet available 24/7- students donthave to rely on just teacher time inclassroom.

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Potential of Internet for learning Restructuring technology in society.

Shapes society as well as education. Changing work patterns: workers learn.

Changing learning patterns: students work.

Facilitates flexible and individual learning.

Exploratory learning in authentic tasks. Group collaboration, discussion, self-

assessment.

Oral presentation at end.

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Potential for language learning

Expose students to new forms of communication:A pedagogy of networked computers must therefore take a broad

view, examining not only the role of information technology inlanguage learning, but the role of language learning in an informationtechnology society (Kern and Warschauer, 2000:12-13).

Shift to interaction with other humans throughcomputers

Sociocognitive framework:

To provide alternative contexts for social interaction; tofacilitate access to existing discourse communities and thecreation of new ones.(ibid: 13).

Typical forms: Email, online discussion, chat, web quests, web

publishing

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Tutor-tool distinction

Computer-as-tool paradigm

Interaction with humans through computers General tech

nologies for language learning

Computer-as-tutor paradigm:

Interaction with computer Specific tutoring functions for language

learning

Provide exercises, feedback, corrections andexplanations

CALL applications typically use either or both

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Principles of classroom language learning(from Hanson-Smith, 1999)

1. Learners have opportunities to interact socially andnegotiate meaning

2. Learners interact in the target language with anauthentic audience

3. Learners are involved in authentic tasks

4. Learners are exposed to and encouraged toproduce varied and creative language

5. Learners have enough time and feedback

6. Learners are guided to attend mindfully to the

learning process7. Learners work in an atmosphere with an ideal

stress/anxiety level

8. Learner autonomy is supported

How can this be accomplished with technology?

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Foreign Language and Technology Sites

http://www.csun.edu/~hcedu013/eslsp.html http://facweb.furman.edu/~pecoy/mfl195/

http://facweb.furman.edu/~pecoy/teaching.htm

http://www.northstar.k12.ak.us/schools/beh/depa

rtments/spanish/technology.html http://facweb.furman.edu/~pecoy/lessons.htm

http://www.geocities.com/Paris/LeftBank/9806/using_the_internet.html

http://www.richmond.edu/%7Eterry/tech.htm

http://www.sad34.net/~steve_tanguay/teachertools.html#6