Braz-Tesol One Day Seminar Goiânia-Brasília Chapter 30 th May, 2008

‘ and what is the use of a book,’ thought Alice ‘without pictures or conversation?’ 1865

1865 2008

‘ What sort of people live about here?’

‘ But I don’t want to go among mad people ,’ ‘ Oh, you can’t help that,’ said the Cat, ‘we’re all mad here. I’m mad . You’re mad .’ ‘ How do you know I’m mad ?’

User participation New way to find info A body of info increasingly easy to search, discover, and navigate over time A gain in the user's capacity to find related content Users often discover the tag sets of another user

User participation

New way to find info

A body of info increasingly easy to search, discover, and navigate over time

A gain in the user's capacity to find related content

Users often discover the tag sets of another user

http://www.flickr.com/map

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Less than 5,000 hours reading Over 10,000 hours playing video games 20,000 hours watching TV Computer games, email, the Internet, cell phones and instant messaging are integral parts of their lives

They get bored if not challenged properly, but when challenged, they excel in creative and innovative ways. McNeely, 2005 They expect things to work properly and work fast . They learn by doing , not by reading the instruction manual or listening to lectures.

provide sts with more opportunities to practice the language; allow sts the freedom and independence they miss in the traditional classroom; learn more about sts‘ interests and learning styles ; We can use technology to...

provide sts with more opportunities to practice the language;

allow sts the freedom and independence they miss in the traditional classroom;

learn more about sts‘ interests and learning styles ;

give sts the chance of playing with the language in more informal contexts , where they have more time to think and prepare what they want to say; help sts learn more about technology itself , learning and communicating in the target language; motivate shy sts to participate more in a “safer“ environment . We can use technology to...

give sts the chance of playing with the language in more informal contexts , where they have more time to think and prepare what they want to say;

help sts learn more about technology itself , learning and communicating in the target language;

motivate shy sts to participate more in a “safer“ environment .

There are over 1 billion people connected to the Web The Internet contains a trillion links on 100 billion Web pages 7 million pages being created daily There were only a handful of people blogging in 1999 There are over 50 million blogs today Will Richardson from weblogg-ed.com and 50 new ones created every minute

link

What do they have in common?

They were PERSON OF A YEAR

2006 PERSON of the YEAR

Wesley Fryer, from http://www.speedofcreativity.org

Do you know anyone like this? Mark Prensky’s articles @ www.marcprensky.com/writing

So what should happen?

RSS “the new killer app for educators” because it enables them to collect specific data without having to sift through innumerable Web and print pages.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0klgLsSxGsU RSS in plain English

moms picking on their children in the not-so-far future

De.lici.ous

Using delicious in education

What results from this marriage?

http://www.apple.com/itunes/download

http://www.podcastnation.co.uk/

www. cnn .com/ podcast s http://www.guardianweekly.co.uk/podcast http://www.podcastnation.co.uk/ http://www.apple.com/itunes/store/podcasts.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/podcasts/directory/ http://www.bbclearningenglish.com/ CNN Student News Questions http://edition.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/studentnews/05/18/ten.questions.mon/index.html CNN Student News Video http://edition.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/studentnews/05/18/transcript.mon/index.html#cnnSTCVideo

Authentic material Cultural literacy Sts’ choice Current affairs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-MSL42NV3c PODCAST in plain English

A web 2.0 web based service most used A blog is a user-generated website where entries are made in journal style and displayed in a reverse chronological order. In November 2006, blog search engine Technorati was tracking more than 57 million blogs .

:: FCE prep course :: Highly motivated :: blog divided into sections http://eyefce.wordpress.com :: weekend challenge :: HW correction on wordpress.com

:: School blog :: Posting HW, composition topics, videos used in class http://thiagoedu.edublogs.org :: Ss still shy to comment on edublogs.org

:: Personal blog :: ESL topics for teachers and students http://thiedu.edublogs.org on edublogs.org

:: Personal blog :: Created to help teachers deal with WEB 2.0 http://fedup2.edublogs.org on edublogs.org

:: Stds use the blog to SHARE ideas, build their SOCIAL NETWORK and improve their writing skills :: Vocab Share :: Lesson commented by a student :: Compositions posted onto the blog :: HW correction :: Challenges Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age by George Siemens

http://edublogs.org

http://twitter.com

http://twitter.com/thiedu

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddO9idmax0o Twitter in plain English

http://www.teachers.tv

http://www.stumbleupon.com

http://www.slideshare.net

http://www.videojug.com

http://simple.wikipedia.org/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dnL00TdmLY Wikis in plain English

http://taggalaxy.de/

http://www.visuwords.com/

http://librivox.org

http://baixaki.ig.com.br/download/aTube-Catcher.htm

Karen Stephenson states: “Experience has long been considered the best teacher of knowledge. Since we cannot experience everything, other people’s experiences, and hence other people become the surrogate for knowledge. ‘I store my knowledge in my friends’ is an axiom for collecting knowledge through collecting people.” (undated) Chaos is a new reality for knowledge workers. www.connectivism.ca

“ Natives do not see the need to memorize information as much as the need to know where information can be found and how to retrieve it.” Cunningham, B. (2007). Digital Native or Digital Immigrant, Which Language Do You Speak? Supplemented with

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4964296663335083307&hl=en “ Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining (and profoundly moving) case for creating an education system that nurtures creativity , rather than undermining it. With ample anecdotes and witty asides, Robinson points out the many ways our schools fail to recognize -- much less cultivate -- the talents of many brilliant people. "We are educating people out of their creativity," Robinson says. The universality of his message is evidenced by its rampant popularity online. A typical review: "If you have not yet seen Sir Ken Robinson's TED talk, please stop whatever you're doing and watch it now.” A MUST SEE VIDEO on educational system undermining CREATIVITY

‘ Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?’ Where do you want to GET TO ?

edublogs.org/videos

Learn more how (not) to distribute my work @ http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses/meet-the-licenses Attribution Non-commercial Share Alike (by-nc-sa) If you’d like to use any idea or if you’d like any slides from this presentation, let me know and I’d gladly SHARE it with you and send it to you. Thiago Eduardo

Siemens, George. 2004. Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age. www.connectivism.ca Digital natives webpage www.digitalnative.org/Main_Page Fryer, Welsey. Beyond the Digital Native, Digital immigrant dichotomy. 2006. www.speedofcreativity.org/2006/10/21/beyond-the-digital-native-immigrant-dichotomy/ Cunningham, B. (2007). Digital Native or Digital Immigrant, Which Language Do You Speak? www.nacada.ksu.edu/Clearinghouse/AdvisingIssues/Digital-Natives.htm Friedman, Thomas. April 3, 2005. It's a Flat World, After All http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/03/magazine/03DOMINANCE.html?ei=5090&en=cc2a003cd936d374&ex=1270267200&pagewanted=print&position=

The ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology, 2007. http://connect.educause.edu/Library/ECAR/TheECARStudyofUndergradua/45075?time=1211516898 McCloskey , P atrick J. Article: The Blogvangelist. Will Richardson, a high school English teacher turned edu-tech consultant, wants to share the good news about blogs, wikis, and podcasts. They could, he believes, change your life. http://www.teachermagazine.org/tm/articles/2006/10/01/02richardson.h18.html?print=1

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