Digital TeachingBruna Fernandes, Larissa, Marcela e Samira

Fundamentos Metodológicos do Ensino de InglêsMarch, 2012

Hypothesis on future English Teaching

● Tanguay (1997):

○ Which can be digitized will be digitized;

○ English instruction can be almost fully digitized;

○ English instruction is more efficient through digitized

medium.

Efficiency of learning through digitalization

● Digitalization increases student-centeredness:

○ Learning what is needed when it is needed;

● Digitalization increases accessibility:

○ Great availability of information;

● Digitalization removes geographical barriers and saves time:

○ Contact with different people without living home;

● Digitalization brings like minds together:

○ Collaboration and exchange of ideas.

The role of the teacher in the digital era

● Present the students the concepts and skill necessary to each situation;

● Be the human bridge between the students and the technology;

● Humans and computers working together are powerful Youtube Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqBr7Q6ai4E

Predictions

● Tanguay (1997):○ 1997: Instant Interactive Publishing : The author tells

about the facilities in publishing articles

○ 1998: Online Education : Full English courses online

and Custom English Teaching News: "Push

technology software"

Predictions

● 1999: Instruction on Demand: Tutoring via video conference

● 2000: Interactive TESOL Conferences from

Your Living Room ● 2001: Virtual English Instruction: Virtual

reality helmets in order to walk through a virtual New York, for example

Predictions● Horizon Report (2010):

○ Near-term horizon:

a. Mobile Computing

• Students need to have mobile devices like smart phones and

netbooks

• Students are already carrying them and they are already established

on many campuses

• One of the concerns about Mobile computing is privacy and class

management

• But the possibilities for collaboration and communication offered by

mobile computing are really good

Predictions b. Open Content

Term created by David Wiley in 1998 to describe a creative work

which can be modified and copied by others.

"...continuous construct. [...] "open" refers to granting of copyright

permissions above and beyond those offered by standard copyright

law. "Open content," then, is content that is licensed in a manner that

provides users with the right to make more kinds of uses than those

normally permitted under the law - at no cost to the user."

(Open Content. http://opencontent.org/definition/)

Advantages:● Students can learn about different areas easily;

● They save money;

● It is their choice about when and how to learn

Predictions

● Horizon Report (2010):○ Mid-term horizon:

a. Electronic books (E-books)

○ book-length publication in digital form;

○ consists of text, images, or both

○ produced on, published through, and readable on computers or other

electronic devices.

○ Usually, it is necessary to have a dedicated e-book reader, like Kindle

for example.

Predictions

b. Augmented reality (AR)

"AR is about augmenting the real world environment

with virtual information by improving people’s senses

and skills." (Azuma, 1997; Azuma et al., 2001).Youtube Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-A1l4Jn6EY

Predictions● Horizon Report (2010)

○ Far-term horizon:

a. Gesture-based Computing

○ Topic in computer science and language technology

○ Goal: interpreting human gestures via mathematical algorithms.

Gestures can originate from any bodily motion or state

○ Commonly originate from the face or hand.

○ Current focuses: emotion recognition from the face and hand gesture

recognition. (Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gesture_recognition)

Predictions

b. Visual data analysis○ Goal: facilitate human-data interaction.

○ It highlights patterns, anomalies and alert conditions in reporting views.

○ tables of data ready for human consumption.

○ emerging field

○ Makes it easier to understand complex concepts and relantionships. (Toolbox.com. http://it.toolbox.com/wiki/index.php/Visual_Data_Analysis)

ReferencesTeaching English in the Network Age:English Teachers, Prepare yourselves for the Digital Age. TANGUAY, Eduard. Berlin, 1997. Available at: http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~tanguay/english-teachers.htm 2010 Horizon Report. Technologies to Watch. Available at: http://wp.nmc.org/horizon2010/chapters/technologies/ A Survey of Augmented Reality. AZUMA, Robert T. Malibu, 1997. Available at: http://www.cs.unc.edu/~azuma/ARpresence.pdf Gardiner, Eileen and Ronald G. Musto. “The Electronic Book.” In Suarez, Michael Felix, and H. R. Woudhuysen. The Oxford Companion to the Book. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010, p. 164. In: Wikipedia. Available at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-book#cite_note-0