Computer Assisted Language Learning
Known as CALL is a class which needs interaction between teacher and learners. In order to have an effective and most efficient way for studying, both parties must cooperate well during and after class. If we notice that nowadays information technology is transforming our societies and our lives and even, eventually our minds, rather than creating alternate worlds using Information and Communication Technology (ICT).
ELT is an abbreviation for English Language Teaching. The teaching of English to speakers of other language. From the TESL-EJ "Blogging in the Language Classroom : It doesn't "Simply Happen" " by Carla Arena and Casa Thomas Jefferson.
This will create a situation of diglossia, with people using their own native languages for local or regional communication and commerce, but still using English for most international communication and commerce on the internet. Children who grow up with computers and the internet will communicate on them with "native-like" fluency, as opposed to our generation that had to make the transition from print to screen.
A final change will be from lab to classroom. Computers and other online devices will be found in every classroom n developed countries, not just in computer laboratories. This is just an introduction from the history of developing technology which in particular the using of the internet for children at home and in classroom. This historical passage will lead us now to discuss more about how to use the internet well in the classroom.
Quoting from Edutopia by Richardson, he said that this is a world where literacy is changing, where readers need to be editors. Now that anyone can publish just about anything in heartbeat, checking for facts and revelance often occurs after publication.
This is, indeed, a changed world. From the realities of war to the fears of avian flu and global-warming crisis.
But he wondered whether, twenty-five or fifty years from now, when four
or five billion people are connecting online, the real story of these
times won't be the more global tests and transformations these
technologies offered.
How, as educators and learners, did we respond?
Did we embrace the potentials of a connected, collaborative world and
put our creative imaginations to work to renovasion our classrooms?
Did
we use these new tools to develop passionate, fearless, lifelong
learners?
Did we ourselves become those learners?
Or did we cling to old ideas, old models, and old habits and drift more fully into irrelevance in our students' eyes?
To answer those tricky questions, we need to be renewed, upgraded, and improve self more towards this upcoming more modern and changes this world could ever be. Through blogging, for example, we help those who are still lack of the internet knowledge so that they could be more knowledgeable and are not left behind. Not only can we publish our writings in blogs, but also to comment other blogs and above all, communication. Learners will have to get used to the blogging experience to learn how to properly answer posts, how to cite, and how to establish their own blogging tone through their posts. In that way, they find their unique channel of communication in the target language. Forget not, blogging gives this sense of belonging to writers and readers. They can build chemistry and engage in meaningful conversation which for both sides are matters.
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