Information Communication Technology in the 21st Century English ClassroomAmy Hampton

Contents

0 This slideshare presentation is designed to explore the challenges and rewards of implementing ICT in the English classroom in the 21st century.

0 This presentation contains the following sections:0 My How Technology Has Changed!0 How does Technology impact on the classroom?0 Teachers must become digital-age teachers.0 The scandal surrounding text-speak in the 2005 VCE Exam.0 How can English teachers use technology in the

classroom?0 Conclusion

My How Technology Has

Changed!!

First it was….the printing press

0We were able to send messages out. This was one way communication.

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Then it was…the telephone

0An exciting innovation in which people could have a voice-based conversation in real time and the communication involved sound.

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Then it was….radio and television

0Now picture and/or sound could be received by a group of people. Communication was once again one way but it allowed us the ability to broadcast a message to a group of people.

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Then it was…….(Drum Roll)

The Internet!

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The internet brought with it a huge shift in technology!

The radioMigrates to theInternet.

Telephones migrateto the internet.

Television, film and photographs migrate to the internet.

Newspapers and magazines migrate to the internet.

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Media is becoming more social and as a result the internet is becoming more social, constantly changing and allowing for more communication between more

people. Guidara S (2011)

So what does this mean in the English classroom?

It means that…..

21st Century learners in the English classroom must be open to autonomous, assisted and collaborative

learning.

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In 2009…..

072% of Australian households had access to the internet.

0841,000 Australian children aged 5-15 owned a mobile phone.

02.7 Million children aged 5-15 used the internet.05 Million Australian households had broadband

internet.

Australian Bureau of Statistics (2009)

Digital Age Teachers

0Education, according to Lord David, has not moved fast enough into the digital world.

0Technology has the ability to transform education. Teachers must be open minded and become Digital-Age Teachers.

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Teachers must become

Digital-Age Teachers!

Digital Age Teachers

Have the ability to facilitate and inspire student learning and creativity, they design digital-age learning experiences and assessments, they model digital-age work and learning and they are a part of learning institutions that are rethinking the possibilities about what can be learnt and expressed using ICT.

Guidara S (2011)

Scandal!

0 In 2005 the Victorian Certificate of Education English examination paper caused an uproar. The exam asked students to compare ‘text speak’ to a poem by John Keats.

VCAA (2005)

Students were to compare this…

VCAA (2005)

To this…

“You fear, sometimes I do not love you as much as you wish.” (Keats, cited VCAA 2005: 15)

The problem?

SMS language had therefore emerged as a distinctive genre of writing with its own grammatical, lexical, stylistic and visual features (Taylor 2009:33). It was even to be analysed by young Victorian English students. This was, for some, an outrageous piece of text to include on an English examination paperUnfortunately, those who protested against this paper did not seem to have understand that this form of language is how some students of the 21st Century communicate to each other. It is imperative that digital communication is analysed and utilised in the English classroom of the 21st Century.

Digital communication has fundamentally changed the ways in which young people of today, read, write, share

information and structure their communication.

21st Century Students as Producers

Students are writing using instant messaging, text messaging, Twitter, and e-mail, sharing electronic documents, posting on blogs and utilising social networking sites such as facebook. (Sweeny 2010:121).This writing is not following traditional forms but instead students are becoming producers of technology and incorporating music, videos and photography to their work. The writing also changes in form as students are using shorthand and finding some vowels and punctuation to be irrelevant.(Sweeny 2010:121).

How can English teachers use technology in their

classrooms?Here are some examples of how easily technology can be used in

the English classroom…..

Are English classrooms really changing? Students are still required to summarise passages of Shakespeare in the English classroom, as they have for decades. In the 21st Century however, there is so much technology available teachers can ask students to text or tweet that summary, forcing students to analyse and summarise the passage in a creative way.

Sweeny (2010)

Wikis can be used as an online space in which students can work on collaborative writing projects together.

Creative Writing

Technology has not only changed how young people communicate it has changed how workplaces function, and how people collaborate on tasks (Sweeny 2010:122).Online blogs allow English students of the 21st Century to receive feedback on their writing from more than one person, and this feedback may be more effective than traditional self-editing. (Sweeny 2010:127). Students become aware of the audience for their pieces as they can publish writing that is received by a larger social community. (Sweeny 2010:127)

Digital Age Teachers as Producers

Teachers can create resources such as online presentations, or videos which students can download and watch at home. Therefore if a student is not able to concentrate properly on a lesson, which could happen for a variety of reasons they are still able to catch up on what they missed by studying at home. It also allows for students to become more independent learners and to take ownership of their own learning through the resources that are available using ICT.(Rance-Roney 2010)

To Conclude…..

English teachers must become Digital-Age Teachers. They must be aware of the new technology that their students are using to communicate to one another and they must endeavour to use this technology, apply this technology and understand this technology in order to create a Digital Learning Space in the English classroom the 21st century.

References0 Guidaria S (2011) “Understanding 21st Century Learning” Digimuve Presentation Slideshare

Accessed at: [http://www.slideshare.net/guidars/cse-leadership-in-digital-age-education] on November 4 2011

0 Australian Bureau of Statistics (2009) “Household Use of Information Technology” accessed at: [http://www.ausstats.abs.gov.au/Ausstats/subscriber.nsf/0/9B44779BD8AF6A9CCA25768D0021EEC3/$File/81460_2008-09.pdf] On November 4 2011

0 Victorian Curriculum Assessment Authority (2005) English Exam Paper Melbourne. Available at:[http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/vce/studies/english/pastexams/2005english.pdf] on November 4 2011

0 Taylor C (2009) “Pre-paid Literacy: Negotiating the Cost of Adolescent Mobile Technology Use” English in Australia44(2) pp.26-34

0 Rance-Roney J (2010) “Jump-Starting Language and Schema for English Language Leaners: Teacher-Composed Digital Jumpstarts for Academic Reading” Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy 53:5 pp.386-395

0 Sweeny M (2010) “Writing for the Instant Messaging and Text Messaging Generation: Using New Literacies to Support Writing Instructions” Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy October 54:2 pp.121-130