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ICT: what EFL Teachers need to know today.

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General outline

Why use the Net for ELT? What skills are needed? Lesson planning/ teaching Practical teaching ideas The future? Conclusion

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Why use the net for ELT?

provides more authentic environment

skills are easily integrated

fosters autonomy: students have control over their learning

facilitates a main focus on content without sacrificing a secondary focus on language form or learning strategies

encourages eclectic real-life approach to lesson preparation, presentation and practice

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Skills needed:

-technical

-analytical

-communicating

-pedagogical

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technical skills: manipulating and creating how to get around:

using “Word” search retrieve info manipulate texts and

images :import/ export use favourites install/ use programs

(CD Roms and Web) print log in/ contact people

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analytical skills

*usefulness of site: research

*evaluation

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Judging the Net

Information:

currency content presentation functionality multiple authors

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communicating skills

*learn new languages

*become familiar with genres of email/ discussion lists/ live chat/ educational online communities

*form-filling, subscriptions, registrations.

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pedagogical skills -lesson planning:

*materials development

*lesson delivery *inclusion of four traditional skills + thinking skills

-developing learners’ skills –graphs, charts

-developing learners autonomy

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lesson planning: materials development

The net as textbook

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The 3 Stage Plan: INTEGRATION

*Preparation/ Warm up/ Introduction

*Computer Work/ Online tasks

*Follow-up/ Offline tasks

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Conclusion:

“If you don’t develop a scaffolding for learners to relate what they do on the computer with what they do in the rest of the classroom, they won’t gain knowledge they can apply in other contexts ”

“The Daily Telegraph” - March 20, 1999

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Future materials and textbooks

print on demand in one minute

just in time textbooks

personalized textbooks

self-assembly textbooks

modular materials

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Classroom of 2010

classroom wired to Web handheld web tablets and paper scenes handheld whiteboards -download to stds tablets convergence : audio and video on demand

*no cassettes: all audio on PC *no videos: all video on PC

Self Access in classroom: no PC lab speech recognition: speech-to-text, speech-to-

speech translation via web or by phone fingerprint logon

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our future......?

“Teachers will not be replaced by Technology, but teachers who do not use technology will be replaced by those who do.”