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1. MAESTRÍA EN ENSEÑANZA DEL IDIOMA
INGLÉS, COMO LENGUA EXTRANJERA
ENSEÑANZA DEL SIGLO XXI ENFOCADA AL APRENDIZAJE
DEL INGLES COMO LENGUA EXTRANJERA
BY:
• Lic. Jefferson Villalba
TECHNOLOGY FOR THE CLASSROOM, DEVICES, MOBILE
LEARNING, LEARNING PLATFORMS

2. What is the Background?
TECHNOLOGY FOR THE CLASSROOM, DEVICES, MOBILE LEARNING,
LEARNING PLATFORMS
What Does Technology in the Classroom
Mean?
What Do
Technology
devices Mean?
What Does
Mobile learning
Mean?
What Does
Learning
Platforms Mean?
“It is any tool that teacher
uses to convey, enhance the
lesson or interact with
students”. Robert Z.
“It is an educational system that
supports, with the help of mobile
devices, a continuous access to the
learning process”. Carl Mitcham
“It is an electronic tool that can be
used for creating, storing, or
transmitting information in the form
of electronic data. ”. Merriam-
Webster.
“It is a webspace or portal for
educational content and resources that
offers a student everything they need in
one place:” Cynthia Chandler.
It includes: phone, laptop
or tablets It includes:
Speakers, printer and
microphone, phone, laptop or
tablet, etc.….
It includes:
Coursera, Skillshare,
Moodle

3. What evidence can you present of the usefulness of this topic for 21st century
Education?
• How does
technology help
with
collaboration in
education?
• How does
technology help
with critical
thinking?
• How does
technology
help with
creativity in
education?
• How does
technology help
with
communication
in education?
Communication
Group 1
Creativity
Group 2
Collaboration
Group 4
Critical
Thinking
Group 3
Focus on the 4Cs
TECHNOLOGY FOR THE CLASSROOM,
DEVICES, MOBILE LEARNING,
LEARNING PLATFORMS
-Resources are Open To Everyone.
-Increased Precision In Demonstrations.
-Increased Communication through
websites
-Light Speed Research.
-Students Learn at Their Speed.
-Making Learning Fun.
-Assessing Students Properly.
It affects critical
thinking by helping
students apply what
they've learned to real-
life situations and
develop problem-
solving skills
They can use a set of easy
and free tools to make
fantastic mind-maps and
visual graphs to illustrate a
topic or a concept.
This tool amplifies student
engagement and voice and
helps students lead one
another to more in-depth
reading and greater skill
development.

4. What happen with the other Cs ?
Choices Caring
Let the students have
choices. It means:
• Get students
attention
• Motivate them
• Inspire them
TECHNOLOGY FOR THE CLASSROOM,
DEVICES, MOBILE LEARNING,
LEARNING PLATFORMS

5. What are the Goals?
Transforming education by using information and
communication technologies (ICTs) to improve students’
learning outcomes.
Provide students with possibilities to construct and improve
knowledge at any time or place.

6. What EFL Approach and 21stC. method would
you use?
Content Based Instruction
Content-Based Instruction (CBI) is “an approach to second language teaching in which teaching is
organized around the content or information that students will acquire, rather than around a
linguistic. Richards & Rodgers
An example of CBI lesson using technology for the classroom, devices, mobile learning, learning platforms
Preparation The lesson
A subject of interest
is chosen.
Finding suitable sources that deal with different aspects of
the subject. It could be websites, reference books, audio,
video, interactive lectures, learning platforms.
Devices like smartphones,
tablets, and laptops are needed.
Cs:
Choices 1. Using small groups
2. Assigning each group a small
research task.
3. Groups sharing and comparing
information
4. Report or presentation as a
learning result.
APPROACH

7. METHOD GAMAFICATION
Involves using game-based elements such as point scoring,
peer competition, team work, score tables, to drive
engagement, help students assimilate new information and
test their knowledge.

8. What are the EFL Roles of Teacher/student?
Teacher
As a driver for technological
change in schools.
1. Guide the student
2. Facilitate learning
3. Motivate
4. Moderate
5. Follow up on students’
progress
6. Evaluate
Students
1. Learners have to research
topics.
The Internet gives
students the
freedom to choose
their own paths.
2. Make use of educational apps
3. Communicate and become
problem-solvers.
Interactions and relationships
Instructor-student Student-student Student-Content

9. What about the Material?
Digital learning materials
Devices
• Reading e-books
• Listening to podcasts
• Using applications for learning purposes: educational
videos, educational games, accessing documents or
document libraries, participating in online lessons and
tutorials, receiving live-streamed lectures, accessing video
clips or audio libraries, reading asynchronous publications,
participating in virtual learning communities, etc.
Smartphones Laptop
Tablets
PCs

10. What Language skills can be developed ?

11. The main learning benefits are:
• By eliminating the need
for learning to happen at
a set time and a set place
• Learning Οn Multiple
Devices.
• Affordability and
portability
• By collaborating with
others in the workplace
rooms.
• By connecting with the
world in real time.
• Save Time
• Higher productivity
• Better reaction to
complex tasks
• Lower stress levels
in the students.
Learning Flexibility
Online Learning
Communities
Multitasking
.
• Information is at your
fingertips.
• Many resources that
supports a higher
quality of learners’
performance.
Better
Performance

12. Disadvantages
Multitasking May Not Be Best
Technology Presents
Problems
• According to a 2012 article in Forbes
magazine: “The distractions of daily
life combined with the ongoing social
and entertainment activities on mobile
devices can be detrimental to their
classroom performance”.
• Many students may be unable to
participate in class because their
devices are not compatible with the
class's software and websites.
• Connectivity May Be Limited
("dropped class“)
• Eye strain and headaches related to
cellphone use.
• Mobile students who spend long
hours doing required reading from
their devices could develop what
Allamby calls "screen sightedness."
Small screens can be
harmful

13. What activities would you implement with your
learners?
• Digital Icebreakers
• Audio Projects
• Video Projects
• Apps for Student Projects
• Active Learning with Mobile Devices
• Sharing Stories: Motivating Language Learners with Mobile Devices
• Digital Storytelling

14. How would you incorporate the topic into the
assessment process?
Diagnostic
assessments.
Formative
assessments.
Summative
assessments.
Peer
assessments
Types of assessments
How To Develop Mobile Learning
Assessments
Conclude each unit or module with an assessment.
Integrate interactive assessments that can be accessed
anywhere.
Use Google Applications to create online quizzes and
exams.
TIPS

15. Conclusions
Mobile learning opens so many doors to new technology and will continue to get more complex as
the years go on.
Future generations are extremely receptive to utilizing new Technology.
The use of mobile technologies places the student at the center of the teaching-learning process,
due to this the teacher is only the mediator between content and knowledge.
Mobile-learning must be carried out with the collaboration of all the actors involved, stakeholders
(educational institutions, teachers, and students)
Teachers should monitor the use of smarthphones for academic purposes.

16. References
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http://www.learningcircuits.org/2001/jul2001/harris.html UNESCO. (2017). Retrieved June 22,
2017, from http://www.unesco.org/new/en/unesco/themes/icts/m4ed/
• Leong, D., (2001). History of PDA – The Beginning. Retrieved September 7th, 2002 from the World
Wide Web: http://www.pdawear.com/news/article_pda_beginning.htm Mobile /
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