Meeting the e-challenge
With the advent of ICTs, we are increasingly exposed to information in the target language and start operating in different contexts and situations in our personal and professional life, which are no longer limited to our geographical location, classes, occasional workshops or professional development programs. We can acquire and learn much of the language online. The use of social media tools and platforms on the open Web can accelerate the learning process by giving us access to information, communities of practice and networks and enabling us to create and participate at our own time, in our own space and with whom we choose to communicate and collaborate.
In this presentation, we will explore the concept of personal learning spaces, the tools we can use to help our learners build them, communities of practice and networks and their role in language learning and practice. We will discuss how this digital immersion challenges us, EFL teachers, to review, expand and modify our ways of teaching and learning.
Barbara (Bee) Dieu teaches at the Franco-Brazilian secondary school in São Paulo, where she has been preparing students for the French Baccalaureate since 1983. She has been in ELT and education since 1974 (in the classroom) and since 1997 increasingly online, networking, keynoting, planning, organizing and facilitating workshops /collaborative projects worldwide and engaged in professional development for teachers. She has published and presented nationally and internationally on social media, digital literacy and openness in education. Bee is an active member of several associations and communities of practice, that includes Webheads in Action,TESOL, Braztesol, Merlot, Hornby Critical Literacy, Práxis, Edublogosfera and T.A.L.O. She is presently Braztesol EduTechSIG Coordinator and has served on the 2009 and 2010 NMC Horizon Project Advisory Board. She blogs at: http://beespace.net.
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