1. PEDAGOGICAL MEDIATION IN TEFL By Prof. Dr. Gilberto Hernández Quirós WEEK 1 1 Educational material created for Centro de Estudios de Posgrados at ULATINA by Prof. Dr. Gilberto Hernández Quirós. 2010

2. AGENDAJuly 31st, 2010 Discussion of quotations on education and social networks. Presentation and discussion of CEFR. Sharing of articles posted on blogs. Field trip to participate in student exchange activity (ELT Camp). 2 Educational material created for Centro de Estudios de Posgrados at ULATINA by Prof. Dr. Gilberto Hernández Quirós

3. WARM-UP Discuss the quotations around the concepts of education and social networks as well as its relationship Use slides 4 and 5 Educational material created for Centro de Estudios de Posgrados at ULATINA by Prof. Dr. Gilberto Hernández Quirós. 2010 3

4. QUOTES ON EDUCATION “It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.” Alec Bourne (1) “Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.” F. B. Skinner (2) “Only educated are free.” Epictetus (3) “The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.” Herbert Spencer (4) “Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.” Malcolm Forbes (5) “In order to learn, it is necessary to unlearn.” Gilberto Hernández (6) 4 Educational material created for Centro de Estudios de Posgrados at ULATINA by Prof. Dr. Gilberto Hernández Quirós. July 2010

5. QUOTES ON TECHNOLOGY “If were a country, it would now be the 6th most populous in the world.” From inside Facebook “The value of a social network is defined not only by who's on it, but by who's excluded.” Paul Saffo, Silicon Valley Forecaster “Regardless of what may be the hot social media property of any particular month or year, social networking has become a core part of our daily lives.” Amy Kean, senior marketing manager, Internet Advertising Bureau 5 Educational material created for Centro de Estudios de Posgrados at ULATINA by Prof. Dr. Gilberto Hernández Quirós. July 2010

6. ACTIVITY 1. DISCUSSION Discuss your thoughts on the following pictures and on the contents depicted by the images. Educational material created for Centro de Estudios de Posgrados at ULATINA by Prof. Dr. Gilberto Hernández Quirós 6

7. What is pedagogical mediation? In a nutshell, pedagogical mediation refers to the treatment of contents and of the different forms of expression of different topics to make learning possible within premises of participation, creativity and relationshipness. Mediation is possible from the construction of knowledge, creativity, investigation and the exchange of learning experiences. Educational material created for Centro de Estudios de Posgrados at ULATINA by Prof. Dr. Gilberto Hernández Quirós. 2010 7

8. Organizational change and the human mind 8 Educational material created for Centro de Estudios de Posgrados at ULATINA by Prof. Dr. Gilberto Hernández Quirós

9. CORE COMPONENTS IN SUCCESSFUL TEFL Educational material created for Centro de Estudios de Posgrados at ULATINA by Prof. Dr. Gilberto Hernández Quirós. 2010 9

10. POSSIBILITIES TO MEDIATE Educational material created for Centro de Estudios de Posgrados at ULATINA by Prof. Dr. Gilberto Hernández Quirós. 2010 10

11. Upgraded Approaches toTEFL and Education in General Educational material created for Centro de Estudios de Posgrados at ULATINA by Prof. Dr. Gilberto Hernández Quirós. 2010 11

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13. New Paradigms in Education Educational material created for Centro de Estudios de Posgrados at ULATINA by Prof. Dr. Gilberto Hernández Quirós 13

14. Data, information, knowledge, understanding, wisdom Data: symbols Information: data that are processed to be useful; provides answers to "who", "what", "where", and "when" questions Knowledge: application of data and information; answers "how" questions Understanding: appreciation of "why“ Wisdom: evaluated understanding. Educational material created for Centro de Estudios de Posgrados at ULATINA by Prof. Dr. Gilberto Hernández Quirós. 2010 14

15. DATA and INFORMATION Data is raw. It simply exists and has no significance beyond its existence (in and of itself). It can exist in any form, usable or not. It does not have meaning of itself. In computer parlance, a spreadsheet generally starts out by holding data. Information is data that has been given meaning by way of relational connection. This "meaning" can be useful, but does not have to be for everyone. 15 Educational material created for Centro de Estudios de Posgrados at ULATINA by Prof. Dr. Gilberto Hernández Quirós. 2010

16. KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING Knowledge is the appropriate collection of information as intended is to be useful. Knowledge is a deterministic process. When someone "memorizes" information, then s/he has amassed knowledge. This knowledge has useful meaning to them, but it does not provide for, in and of itself, an integration such as would infer further knowledge. Understanding is an interpolative and probabilistic process. It is cognitive and analytical. It is the process by which I can take knowledge and synthesize new knowledge from the previously held knowledge. The difference between understanding and knowledge is the difference between "learning" and "memorizing". People who have understanding can undertake useful actions because they can synthesize new knowledge. 16 Educational material created for Centro de Estudios de Posgrados at ULATINA by Prof. Dr. Gilberto Hernández Quirós

17. WISDOM Wisdom is an extrapolative and non-deterministic, non-probabilistic process. It calls upon all the previous levels of consciousness, and specifically upon special types of human programming (moral, ethical codes, etc.). It beckons to give us understanding about which there has previously been no understanding, and in doing so, goes far beyond understanding itself. It is the essence of philosophical probing. Unlike the previous four levels, it asks questions to which there is no (easily-achievable) answer, and in some cases, to which there can be no humanly-known answer period. Wisdom is therefore, the process by which we also discern, or judge, between right and wrong, good and bad. 17 Educational material created for Centro de Estudios de Posgrados at ULATINA by Prof. Dr. Gilberto Hernández Quirós. 2010

18. WAYS TO MEDIATE TEFL 18 Educational material created for Centro de Estudios de Posgrados at ULATINA by Prof. Dr. Gilberto Hernández Quirós. 2010

19. THANK YOU! 19 THANK YOU! Educational material created for Centro de Estudios de Posgrados at ULATINA by Prof. Dr. Gilberto Hernández Quirós. 2010