Task 3: Creating a digital activity for the 21st century classroom

Choose one tech tool we have used during this module (or another one you already use) and design an activity for your learners based on the principles of 21st century teaching and learning and technology integration.

Describe the group (level and age), the aims, the steps and the resources you will be using.

These questions may help you:

What? (What is the technology?)

Who? (Who are the learners?)

Where? (Where are they going to perform the activity? At home, in class, in te lab?)

When? (When are they going to do that? During the class, after the class, before the class?)

Why? (What is the aim of the activity? How will it enhance students' language learning? How will it prepare students for the 21st century and the digital age?)

How? (How will it be done? Describe the steps for the activity)

Then, share it here with the group.

New Technologies I - Assessment

Hello @ll,

As we have discussed yesterday, the inter-assessement tasks to be accomplished by next Friday (July 25th) are:

1) Explore the blog. Visit the pages and links, read the posts and share your opinions and suggestions.

2) Read Vera Menezes's paper on the evolution of technologies in ELT. The text is on the platform (Material do Estudante) and also in the E-library page here in the blog.

3) If you have a smartphone, check that you have a QR code reader app. If you don't, please install it and bring it to class next Saturday.

See you then! 
Have a great weekend! =)

Education in the digital era

In our last class, we talked a lot about the changes in both society and education in the digital age. Here are three great videos that summarize and complement our debate. It's really worth watching them to understand the necessary changes we have to accomplish as teachers.

Educação na Sociedade do Conhecimento - Viviane Mosé

Educ@r: A (r)evolução digital na educação - Martha Gabriel

#PensadoresTIC | Martha Gabriel fala sobre o papel do novo professor e o uso das TIC na educação

How can you relate these three videos to your reality and practice as an EFL teacher?

Please, share your thoughts and ideas here.  

Potentials and challenges of technologies/digital age

In groups, discuss the potentials and challenges of using technologies in education and in the digital age and make a list. Then, go to Glogster and create a poster with your ideas and share them with the group.

New technologies, new pedagogies

After you watch the video below, discuss the following questions in groups:

1) What was the problem with the use of new technologies in the school?
2) Why do you think that happened?
3) What could be done to overcome this problem?
4) What would be a good pedagogy/methodology to use the new technology in that school?

After your discussion, imagine you are a teacher in that school. How can you help the teacher to use new technologies in a more appropriate way for the digital age?

Prepare a small presentation using Google Drive Presentation to use in the school, presenting innovative ways of using new technologies. Then, share it here.

The evolution of educational technology

These resources show you an overview on the use of technology in education. As you can see it, technology is not a new resource to education and has been used in classrooms for a very long time. Check it out!

The evolution of classroom technology - The New York Times

Instructional Technology: Looking Backward, Thinking Forward

A Brief History of Technology in Education

The evolution of educational technology

In your opinion,

How has technology enhanced education in the past century?

How can it enhance education nowadays? And in the future?

What's the role of the school in using different technologies?

Brainstorming

What is technology?

Which words come to your mind when you think of the word technology?

Work in pairs and write down all the words that come to your mind or that you associate with technology, then go to wordle and create a word cloud to share here.

Steps:

1- Open a Word document and type the words
2- Go to http://www.wordle.net/create
3- Copy the words and paste them on wordle
4- Publish your cloud
5- Share the link as a reply to this post
6- Compare other clouds with yours. What are the similarities and differences?


Other options to wordle:
http://www.edudemic.com/9-word-cloud-generators-that-arent-wordle/

http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2010/02/word-it-out-like-wordle-with-more.html#.U8l9DPldV8E

http://paulhami.edublogs.org/2011/02/01/word-clouds-multiple-options-for-visual-summaries/

Or find others and share them with the group!

Task 2 - Pre-Assignment Task

Reflect on your use of technology today and write a one-page essay describing your experience with New Technologies in ELT. Please, use the questions below to guide your text in a narrative style. You may include other information you consider relevant for our course. Share your essay here as a comment to this post and save it as a word document for a future task.

Deadline: July 18th (Friday)

•          Can you summarize your professional experience? (How long you have been teaching, where, etc)
•          What is the role of technology in your personal life? How do you use it?
•          What is the role of technology in your professional life? How do you use it?
•          What is the role of technology in your classroom? What advantages and disadvantages do you perceive in the use of technology in ELT?
•         How often do you use new technologies in your classes? Why? How do you use it? (Describe the technologies you use and the kinds of activities and you usually do)
•         What do you consider to be necessary for a teacher to use new technologies effectively in their teaching practices?
•         What are your attitudes and expectations in relation to technology integration in ELT?

Task 1 - Getting to know each other!

Hello! This is an activity for us to get to know each other better. Please share some information about you like professional experience, interests and what you would like to learn/discuss during this module.
Then, click here and answer this survey.
See you soon! ;)

Welcome!

Welcome!
This will be our virtual learning environment (VLE) for the first module of the course "Use of New Technologies in English Language Teaching". Feel free to explore this VLE and add your comments, share ideas, tips and practices on the use of new technologies in ELT.