ICT in ELT - Current situation

Evelyn Izquierdo ICT in ELT Sep, 2009 Maestría en Inglés como Lengua Extranjera Universidad Central de Venezuela ICT - Current trends in the ELT field

What is ICT? It is a term used for communication and information technology (ICT).

Do you think we have to teach technology in schools? Why? What? How? To whom?

The answer is here. Watch this video . Original source: Why We Need to Teach Technology in Schools. YouTube. Available at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRZ15cXopEw

The net generation

What is our current CALL situation?

Three scenarios:

The world context

The Latin American context

The Venezuelan context

The world context Members of WorldCALL are drawn from established, professional affiliated associations working in the areas of CALL throughout the world. The current members of WorldCALL are: http://www.j-let.org Japan Association for Language Education and Technology LET http:// www.iallt.org International Association for Language Learning Technology IALLT http:// www.calico.org Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium CALICO http://www.eurocall-languages.org European Association for Computer Assisted Language Learning EUROCALL

The world context Members of WorldCALL are drawn from established, professional affiliated associations working in the areas of CALL throughout the world. The current members of WorldCALL are: ( http:// www.atell.org Australian Association for Technology Enhanced Language Learning ATELL Canadian Association for Computer Assisted Language Learning CCAQLL/CELAO http:// www.cercles.org Confédération Européenne des Centres de Langues de l'Enseignement Supérieur CERCLES

The Latin American Context

Latin Call – Mexico

http://ujed-cuaal-projects.net/latin-call/

Edutech Braz-Tesol

http://www.braz-tesol.org.br/site/view.asp?p=26

Avealmec – Venezuela

http://avealmec.pbwiki.com/AVEALMEC

ARCALL – Argentina

http://alreadybiz.wordpress.com/2008/10/03/welcome-arcall-to-argentina/

The Venezuelan Context

Official policies (Ministry of Education

Ministry of Higher Education

Ministry of Science and Technology)

Public Vs. Private education

School Vs. University level

Strengths

New CALL association

British Council Support

Teacher training

Governmental projects

Infocenters

Weaknesses

Low technological infrastructure

Internet access

Connectivity

Few research in the CALL area

What are we supposed to know about ICTs?

What should we learn?

What Web tools can we use in ELT?

ICT in ELT

Web tools Web 1.0 1994-2004 Wikipedia Web 2.0 2004- Tim O’Reilly Web 3.0 2006- Tim Berners-Lee

Web 1.0

Web 2.0

Web 3.0

Second Life Evelyn Michalski

New trends in the ELT field

A new learning theory: Connectivism (George Siemens and Stephen Downes, 2003)

Blended learning

Research on ICT in ELT

Social networking

The Latin American and Venezuelan Context: CooPs for English teachers VENELT http://groups.yahoo.com/group/VENELT/?yguid=211734267 ELTnet http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ELTnet/ AVEALMEC http://groups.yahoo.com/group/avealmecmembers/?yguid=211734267 LWC http://groups.yahoo.com/group/learningwithcomputers/ WIA http://groups.yahoo.com/group/evonline2002_webheads/?yguid=211734267

Some questions for reflection:

Do you use ICT with your students?

How often?

What do you do in the tech area?

How would you describe your local context?

Is it possible an ICT project there?

Thank you very much! Contact info : Evelyn Izquierdo Escuela de Educación Universidad Central de Venezuela [email_address] [email_address] [email_address] Skype: evelyn.izquierdo http://beyondtheenglishclassroomwalls.blogspot.com