Who said it?
Read the statements below and decide which of the following perspectives they reflect: technologist’s, social pragmatist’s and/or critical analyst’s. Explain why.
1) The Internet could be looked at as one giant “garbage dump”.
2) Working with technology is difficult and frustrating.
3) The notion of “communicative competence” should be expanded to include the interactions that take place through oral and written communication with a computer.
4) “Data” is viewed as a degraded form of knowledge. We tend to accept or view Internet sources uncritically.
5) We take into account the context in order to examine the reality of day-to-day technology use.
6) Our ultimate goal was to create a person. We look at communication between humans and computers.
Mary is a primary EFL teacher. She has been told she needs to incorporate multimedia into her classes but she does not exactly know how to do so and is doubtful whether her 10 year old students will benefit at all. She is also concerned because many of her students live in poor areas of the city and do not have access to technology. Can you help Mary? Based on the course bibliography and the material covered in classes 1 and 2, answer the questions below. 1) Define the concept of multimedia for Mary 2) Propose 3 different ways in which Mary can incorporate multimedia into her lessons 3) List 5 possible benefits of incorporating multimedia into her classes 4) Explain to Mary the impact that the digital divide may have on education. Propose 2 different strategies or approaches to help bridge the gap among her students. You may want to check out the following link for more ideas: http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/feb15/vol72/num05/Helping-to-Close-the-Digital-Divide....
1) Critical analysist's: the internet could be looked at as one giant garbage dump because people and organizations dump information and also retrieve whatever is of use and interest to them.
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3) Technologyst’s: this view states that English language learners would also need to develop communicative competence for possible future interactions that may take place through oral and written communication with a computer.
4) Critical analyst’s: this view emphasizes the need of looking at online sources critically since nowadays “knowledge is conveyed through texts of unknown authorship, frequently delivered as a result of a search through the garbage dump of the Internet.”
5) Social pragmatist’s: as was previously stated, this view claims that the context is essential in the implementation and use of technologies; thus, it states that people should stop ignoring the complexities of learning, knowledge, judgements, communities, organizations and institutions.
6) Technologyst’s: artificial intelligence (AI) is now a fact and people will find themselves –if they haven’t already- holding a written or an oral conversation with a machine.