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Online communities for language teachers
Maria Teresa Ciaffaroni
ciaffaroni@gmail.com
Britsh Council, Milan, November 26 - 28, 2007
Learning Technologies: Bridging the Gap between Technology and Pedagogy
A digital native is a person who has grown up with digital technology such as computers, the Internet, mobile phones and MP3. A digital immigrant is an individual who grew up without digital technology and adopted it later. A digital native might refer to their new "camera"; a digital immigrant might refer to their new "digital camera".
Wikipedia (M Prensky 2001)
Definition
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Are you native or immigrant?
Natives at home….
……..at school
Digital Native Learners Prefer
To receive information quickly from multiple multimedia source
Parallel processing and multitasking
To process pictures, sounds and video before text
Random access to hyperlinked multimedia information
To interact/network simultaneously with many others
To learn “just-in-time.”
Instant gratification and instant rewards
Learning that is relevant, instantly useful and fun
Preferences
Preferences
Digital Immigrant Teachers Prefer
Slow and controlled release of information from limited sources
Singular processing and single or limited tasking
To provide text before pictures, sounds and video
To provide information linearly, logically and sequentially
Students to work independently rather than network and interact
To teach “just-in-case” (it’s on the exam)
Deferred gratification and deferred rewards
To teach to the curriculum guide and standardized tests
Immigrants teaching natives…
How to cope?
Learning the new “language”, that is, trying toexperiment with technology try Web 2 “tools” first hand work co-operatively interact networkmultitaskshare (ideas, experiences, materials, expertise….)
How can you do that?
Joining Becoming a Webhead or another online Community at Evonline, a ProfessionalDevelopment Project sponsored by TESOLInternational
collaborative, online discussion sessions or hands-on virtual workshops
held every year in January and February last for six weeks offer seminars on ESOL relevant topics sessions are free and open to TESOL members and
non-members
What for?
To become a well integrated digital immigrant
if not a digital native … that is to
deal with Web-based communication tools (web 2 tools)
be introduced to CMC for EFL/ESL learn how to blend ICT and CMC in one’s daily
practice Learn how to use technologies in one’s teaching
practices
Why?
“In a community of practice members actually work and learn cooperatively and in a
multitasking manner. It seems that teachers nurtured in such constructivist environments
become capable of extrapolating the techniques used in their own scaffolding to the
benefit of their student learners”
V. Stevens 2005
The Webhead experience
Virtual GroupsText and voice synchronous communication tools Blogs, Wikis, Web pages Podcasting Virtual classrooms Online class materialsBlended learning
Spin offs
Blogs for students Blogs with students Blogs for and with colleagues Web pages Lesson plans Teaching materials
Conclusions
“Joining a community such as Becoming a Webhead is a significant advantage and enrichment at the professional and personal levels. It is a pleasant and useful way to learn about and start using different Web-based communication tools, gradually introduce them in your teaching-learning process and, last but not least, meet colleagues from all over the world and thus enhance your professional horizons in unprecedented ways.”
D. Gonzales
T. Almeida d'Eça
References
Gonzalez, D,.Almeida d'Eça, T. (2005) Becoming a Webhead: First Steps in Blended and Online Efl/esl Teaching, in IATEFL Poland Computer SIG, http://www.iatefl.org.pl/call/j_review22.htm
Prensky. M (2001) Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants http://www.marcprensky.com/writing/
Prensky. M (2006) Listen to the Natives, Stevens, V. (2005). "The future is now: How CMC tools for professional development enhance learning environments for students." 2005 TESOL CALL Interest Session Academic Session: Future Visions of CALL. http://www.homestead.com/prosites-vstevens/files/efi/papers/tesol/2005/gvs_pres.htm
Stevens, V. (2005). "The future is now: How CMC tools for professional development enhance learning environments for students." 2005 TESOL CALL Interest Session Academic Session: Future Visions of CALL. http://www.homestead.com/prosites-vstevens/files/efi/papers/tesol/2005/gvs_pres.htm
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