Successfully Facing the Digital Challenge

Lic. Mariana Porta

COSTA DE ORO CARRASCO

Can we talk about a paradigm shift? Could technology substitute teachers? Will it be easier or harder for teachers and sts.? Will we need to know more about computer applications

and the web? If so, how much more? How will NICTs harmonize with everything else we already

have? How advanced are we in this process of integrating

NTICS.

The first questions... dealing with fear, chaos, speculation, hope, predictions.

Paradigm shift ?

Khun: paradigm shiftScientific advancement is not evolutionary, but rather a

"series of peaceful interludes punctuated by intellectually violent revolutions", and in those revolutions "one conceptual world view is replaced by another".

Significant technological change!

How has fire changed the way we eat?

How does the teaching and/or learning process change? How do our teaching and learning practices change? How do our teaching resources change?How could our classroom change?

How do ICTs change the way we teach and learn?

In the end it all depends on the choices we make

We can keep technology away because we choose to, because we don't need it, because we ignore all about it ... the last one is not advisable.

“When the wise man points at the moon, the idiot looks at the finger.”

Confucius

We must not be so focused on the attractive and dazzling finger of ICT that we forget to notice where it “points,” that is, the social interests that media serve and the role they play in society are the main focus for media education.

Alfonso Gutierrez Martin Posted on March 28th, 2011by Alfonso Gutierrez Martin in “ A Manifesto for Media Education”

http://www.manifestoformediaeducation.co.uk/category/alfonso-gutierrez-martin/

Teachers are concerned with LITERACYWhat is digital literacy?

“Digital Literacy is the awareness, attitude and ability of individuals to appropriately use digital tools and facilities to identify, access, manage, integrate, evaluate, analyze and synthesize digital resources, construct new knowledge, create media expressions, and communicate with others, in the context of specific life situations, in order to enable constructive social action; and to reflect upon this process.”

Alfonso Guetierrez Martín, 2005

Digital Literacy involves Critical Thinking Skills

Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectiveshttp://eduscapes.com/tap/topic69.htm

Keep it in mind!

The European Union’s concern for the basic training for Information Society has also brought together experts and policymakers to consider “digital competence” as one of the eight key competences that young people should have developed by the end of initial education and training to a level that equips them for adult life.

Alfonso Gutierrez Martin, 2011

Complete: before and after ICTs

before ICTs after ICTs

Language ?

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Learning and teaching ?

teacher's roles ?

oral text, printed text, fixed image

Language processing and and language development

LSRW more clearly separated in time. Linear reception and production

sources of info: teachers and institutions

teacher as facilitator and a model of digital literacy. Teacher of digital literacy skills and strategies.

Breaking the challenge into its components

before ICTs after ICTs

Language

ingrated skills, nonlinear

Learning and teaching

teacher's roles

oral text, printed text, fixed image

hypertext and multimedia, more visual components, animation

Language processing and and language development

LSRW more clearly separated in time. Linear reception and production

sources of info: teachers and institutions

recursive, constructivist, learner-directed, vast information availability

teacher as source of knowledge

teacher as facilitator and a model of digital literacy, teacher of digital literacy skills and strategies

Language facing changes

Acronyms take the function of verbs and nouns: www, pdf, html.

New words: emoticons, hypertext,

Old words gain new meanings: boot, browse, virus

Nouns have become verbs: email, google,

Verbs out of nouns: word process

Blended terms: netiquette, download, hardcopy

Linguistic hybrids:click, scroll, bookmark

Iconic language

Communicating

The appearance of digital genre

When a type of discourse or communicative action acquires a common name within a given

context or community, that’s a good sign that it’s functioning as a genre (Miller, 1984). The weblog seems to have acquired this status very quickly ...

Language processing and developing

Producing a text includes designing it.

Spoken language becomes audio design.

Comprehension processes are nonlinear and recursive.

Skills are integrated to produce and to receive the message.

Variety of multimedia tools.

What skills should we teach?Operational skill “how to..” 1. Sending an email

2. Creating a website account3.

Critical thinking skills 1. Analyzing the sources, reliability and value of information found in the Internet2.

Social skills related to the web 1. Using email appropriately: netiquette in emailing.2.

Knowledge of the digital world 1. Authorship and property issues2. Web browsers, which one to use when3.

Language specific skills 1. Writing with word processors: spellchecking, formatting, correcting style.2. Using dictionaries 3.

Language skills related to digital texts 1. Producing a webpage2. Producing an animated presentation

What skills should we teach?

Activities, tasks and digital resources

Activities, tasks and the digital resources for the tasksTo keep a learnig log or journal • Blogs

• online diaries•

To produce a hypertext • Word processors•

To engage in a collabortive project. • Google documents• wikis•

To communicate with others asincronically • email

To communicate with others syncronically • Chatrooms• skype• instant messaging•

What about us!

DIGITAL CHALLENGE: suffering it alone.

DIGITAL CHALLENGE AS A LEARNING EXPERIENCE

Getting help from mentors, creating Your own digital literacy action plan

We teachers: disadvantaged or empowered?

We are already literate We have developed our critical thinking We know how to self-teach. We appreciate time-saving tools. We are used to changes We can foster our team work and collaborative

work strategies

The potential of collaborative tools!

Affective strategies Lowering your anxiety Encouraging yourself Taking your emotional temperature

Social strategies Asking questions Cooperating with others Empathizing with others

Rebecca Oxford,1990

Let's focus on the moon!

What about us!

DIGITAL CHALLENGE: suffering it alone.

DIGITAL CHALLENGE AS A LEARNING EXPERIENCE

Getting help from mentors, creating Your own digital literacy action plan