tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32535597809241121332024-03-14T00:13:18.947-04:00Getting into the Second Language world!!For languages learners. You will find here strategies, tips and interesting articles to enrich your second language acquisition. TEACHINGICTWITHMUSIChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00985507642486222699noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3253559780924112133.post-39948166212620184172014-06-16T13:33:00.001-04:302014-06-16T13:33:58.628-04:30Digital Literacy<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Living in a world of constant, growing and development in all
the areas and especially in the technological area; which is an area that
nowadays covers and influences most of the aspects of the human being. We as teachers, we cannot be blind on that
issue. If we have not taken it into consideration, it is time to wake up and
give us the opportunity to know more about the different uses and strategies
that we can implement throughout the technology either inside or outside(real
or virtual) of our classrooms. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Not matter if we perceive it or not, there is a new
generation that has risen that is called the electronically and digital
generation. Most of the messages and the communication is provided and done
through the digital things. The question is are we as teachers ready to empower our students with knowledge
about this digital area? Do we know all the benefits and advantages of use the
technology as a tool to promote the understanding or the learning of a language?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">If we have an electronically generation, do we know what are
their expectations? Do we know what are their motivations and needs about
learning a language? Do we know how useful could be the ICT strategies? Or maybe there is a gap that we have to take
into consideration. Sometimes, to teach people especially kids, we can face
different challenges such as keep them motivated. If we do not use dynamic and
interacted strategies in our education way applied to this generation. Maybe,
we would not get the completed attention of the students and as consequences we
are going to be left behind in this new era. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">As a matter of fact, we need to be conscious of the era that
we are living that was marked from the creation of the internet and so on. We
have to consider the tools that were created and spanned through the internet
such as: web pages, podcast, wikis, second life elements and others artifices
that were created to promote certain and different kind of information. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In order to be conscious of the importance’s of the uses of
the technological element into the education system the UNESCO has written and
delimited the ICT competences for teachers.
This important organization highlighted the importance of the
implementation of the technology in the classrooms, the benefits for the students
and their different programs that are taught through the ICT strategies. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In Venezuela, there has been an awakening regardless those
topics. In many universities such as: UCV, ULA, UPEL and UCLA among others.
Professors have noticed the necessity of used the technologies and their tools
as a way of learning. And in much University the internet services are provided
for free, professor send homework and sometime assets through internet. In this
case, we have seen that Universities have placed the technology in a very
important place. Even in some primary schools the used of laptops as a part of
the classes is compulsory. But even though we have been conscious about, there
is a still a group of teachers that they do not how important and meaningful could
be the use of digital programs in our classroom and there is a universe that we
do know yet. We have just seen part of the stars but not the rest of tools that
are beyond those stars. It is necessary that we go beyond the previous
knowledge that we have and in that way we will be able to be the teachers of
this present and future generation as UNESCO, teachers capable and prepared to
provide technology-supported learning opportunities for our students; having
the technology as a tool of an integral professional repertoire. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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TEACHINGICTWITHMUSIChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00985507642486222699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3253559780924112133.post-4197473595782501602014-05-20T09:41:00.000-04:302014-05-20T09:41:40.101-04:30The role of ICT in higher education for the 21st century: ICT as a change agent for educationThe role of ICT in higher education for the 21st century: ICT as<br />
a change agent for education<br />
Ron Oliver<br />
Edith Cowan University, Perth, Western Australia<br />
r.oliver@ecu.edu.au<br />
Abstract: Information and communication technologies (ICT) have become<br />
commonplace entities in all aspects of life. Across the past twenty years the use of<br />
ICT has fundamentally changed the practices and procedures of nearly all forms of<br />
endeavour within business and governance. Within education, ICT has begun to have<br />
a presence but the impact has not been as extensive as in other fields. Education is a<br />
very socially oriented activity and quality education has traditionally been associated<br />
with strong teachers having high degrees of personal contact with learners. The use<br />
of ICT in education lends itself to more student-centred learning settings and often<br />
this creates some tensions for some teachers and students. But with the world moving<br />
rapidly into digital media and information, the role of ICT in education is becoming<br />
more and more important and this importance will continue to grow and develop in<br />
the 21st century. This paper highlights the various impacts of ICT on contemporary<br />
higher education and explores potential future developments. The paper argues the<br />
role of ICT in transforming teaching and learning and seeks to explore how this will<br />
impact on the way programs will be offered and delivered in the universities and<br />
colleges of the future.<br />
Keywords: Online learning, constructivism, higher education<br />
Introduction<br />
Information and communication technology (ICT) is a force that has changed many aspects of the<br />
way we live. If one was to compare such fields as medicine, tourism, travel, business, law,<br />
banking, engineering and architecture, the impact of ICT across the past two or three decades has<br />
been enormous. The way these fields operate today is vastly different from the ways they<br />
operated in the past. But when one looks at education, there seems to have been an uncanny lack<br />
of influence and far less change than other fields have experienced. A number of people have<br />
attempted to explore this lack of activity and influence (eg.Soloway and Prior, 1996; Collis,<br />
2002).<br />
There have been a number of factors impeding the wholesale uptake of ICT in education across<br />
all sectors. These have included such factors as a lack of funding to support the purchase of the<br />
technology, a lack of training among established teaching practitioners, a lack of motivation and<br />
need among teachers to adopt ICT as teaching tools (Starr, 2001). But in recent times, factors<br />
have emerged which have strengthened and encouraged moves to adopt ICTs into classrooms and<br />
learning settings. These have included a growing need to explore efficiencies in terms of<a href="http://bhs-ict.pbworks.com/f/role%2520of%2520ict.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bhs-ict.pbworks.com/f/role%2520of%2520ict.pdf</a>TEACHINGICTWITHMUSIChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00985507642486222699noreply@blogger.com3