web 2.0 and english language
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Web 2.0 related to English Language Learning. Some of the most important tools to improve English Language.TRANSCRIPT
WEB 2.0 AND ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Prof. Miguel Villanueva Coaguila.2012
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How students live with technology
Different kinds of experiences lead to different brain structures.
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Today’s students are Digital Natives
(Marc Prensky)
• Visual learners• Multi-taskers• Short attention spans• Information analysts• Content producers
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21st Century Skills
• Communication• Innovation • Creativity• Problem-Solving• Interactive• Collaboration• Critical Thinking
Web 2.0 applications allow users to communicate and collaborate in diverse ways and in a variety of media, which also helps learners to act together and to build knowledge bases that fit their specific needs (cf. Owen et al., 2006).
What´s Web 2.0?
Web 2.0 is about exploring a wide range of expressive formats. This is because digital media create new opportunities for manipulating more than the conventional texts of communication: in particular, they encourage exploration of images, sound and video.
ADVANTAGES
Web 2.0 applications allow students to communicate and collaborate in diverse ways and in a variety of media, which also helps learners to act together and to build knowledge.
ADVANTAGES
Web 2.0 tools and practices invite new ways for a learner to conduct personal research. And to share experiences and resources.
Compatibility with the elements of the educational field.
- Behaviourism. - Constructivism- Cognitivism - Socio-cultural theory - Connectivism
ADVANTAGES
Web 2.0 offers educators a set of tools to support forms of learning that can be more strongly collaborative and more oriented to the building of classroom communities.
ADVANTAGES
EDUCATIONAL APPLICATIONSwww.blogger.com
The potential uses of social networking services for schools and educators lie in developing e-portfolios as online space where learners can record their achievements and collect examples of their work.
Blogs can enhance communication and promote more engaged learning, increasing student motivation and participation.
Writing for an internet audience not only enhances students’ writing skills, but also gives them a sense of responsibility, authorship and ownership .
(Farmer et al., 2008; Ellison & Wu, 2008; Akbulut, 2007);
EDUCATIONAL APPLICATIONS www.xtranormal.com
Xtranormal instantly turns your words into a 3D animated movie.
1. themselvesInside and outside of classPractice other skills: spelling, punctuation. etc.Allows freedom of studentsto step outside.
EDUCATIONAL APPLICATIONSwww.toondoo.com
Illustrations have a number of possible benefits to learning, they can represent conversations between two characters while they practice writing.
EDUCATIONAL APPLICATIONSwww.voicethread.com
Teachers and students can collaborate around almost any type of media including voice, text, webcam, and drawing commentary in a secure environment.
VoiceThread improves student-student and student-teacher communication.
EDUCATIONAL APPLICATIONShttp://www.widbook.com
Widbook is a writing and editing space that lets people alone or in groups craft book-length projects and shorter stories.
EDUCATIONAL APPLICATIONShttp://www.secondlife.com
EFL students might be access various online communities, interacting with different people from different countries and experience other cultures.
It is a “safe environment” where you can make mistakes and nobody blames you for that, because it is a virtual place and it is free to make mistake anytime.
