Successfully Facing Digital Challenge

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 shift Scientific 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 LITERACY What 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 Objectives http://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

Breaking the challenge into its components

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?

Activities, tasks and digital resources

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

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Successfully Facing Digital Challenge

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