Educators now guide students to take charge of their own learning by enabling them to be producers. Teachers facilitate opportunities for natural communication, authenticity, and engagement through interaction. Through collaboration, students learn actively from peers in classes, groups, and communities by sharing tasks and cooperating rather than competing. Having an audience through posting messages or discussions online motivates students and gives them a sense of their work being read publicly beyond just the teacher.

1. Maria da Luz
Selma Bimbato
Sônia Arantes

2. Educators face now a shift in their
teaching practice
Teachers as guides and facilitators
Enabling learners to:
be producers
take charge of their own learning

3. INTERACTION
COLLABORATION
AUDIENCE

4. INTERACTION
Opportunities for natural communication
Authenticity
Voice
Engagement

5. COLLABORATION
Active process:
peers learn from peers
classes - groups - communities
learners share tasks
cooperation rather than competition

6. AUDIENCE
“Even posting a message to a class discussion group gives
the sense of an audience out there rather than one that
consists only of the teacher. People may get only 15 minutes
of fame, but they are still pleased to have it, and most
people are quite motivated at the thought of being read
publicly.” Deborah Healey