ICT in ELT

Tilly Harrison

University of Warwick

10th Feb 2012

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Overview

Push and Pull Autonomy and M-learning Self Access and Podcasting Affordance Rethinking Society? Future Directions

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Push and Pull Technologies

Push - sent to you, not chosen– Advertisers, commercial companies, – SMS, spam, pop-up windows– Teachers?

Pull - you choose– Customers – Web pages, e-mail, mobile phone– Students?

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Autonomy - challenge for teachers

How can we create an environment in which the learners are both capable of taking charge of their own learning and willing to do so? Leni Dam (1995:4)

How do the concept of autonomy and Web 2.0 technology interface with each other?

What is M (mobile)-learning?

Mobile technology? Movement in space

Mobile learner? Movement in time /

crossing boundaries

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“Mobile technology can assist learners at the point of need and in ways that fit in with their mobile lifestyles.” (Kukulska-Hulme, 2009)

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M-learning

Ipod / MP3 players Mobile phone Personal Digital

Assistant (PDA) Laptop iPad

Audio recorders Digital cameras Digital camcorders

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Advantages of Mobile Phone

Portable Familiar Transferable Convenient Under user’s control

No need for books Visible in the dark! Short, repeated exposure Good for revision Useful adjunct in a blended

learning situation

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Range of uses of m-learning

Main content admin info In-class out of class Individual collaborative Receptive practice productive Interactive static Connected off-line Pull technology push technology

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To learn what…?

Vocabulary Listening skills Pronunciation Short chunks of information And…?

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Disadvantages

Distractions Small keyboard Limited capacity? Unstructured? Repetitive?

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New mobile devices

iPad Kindle Kno

Will they overcome all the disadvantages that mobile phones present?

Affordance

Concept described by Gibson (an environmentalist) Quality that gives an opportunity for action

– Solid ground > walking– Fire > cooking

Dependent on perception and capability Adopted in relation to technology Useful concept to explain the classroom environment Affordances may be there but unused because not

perceived or do not fit with capability of teacher.

Discussion

What are the basic affordances of a classroom (without technology)?

What does technology add?

Affordances of Touch Tablets

Personalisation (camera, customisation, choice) One-to-one, anywhere, anytime learning device Pull (apps you want, follow your interest) Notes, files kept together, easily available Interactive through touch technology Connected - information / people Portable, convenient, intuitive Push (information updates)

Discussion

Are touch tablets the future of education? Assuming all students have one - what kind

of benefits will they bring? Disadvantages?

One View of Web 2.0

The Machine is Us / ing Us

Changing texts - linear > digital Change in HTML > XML Form separated from Content Unlimited linking Unlimited uploading (text, video, graphics) Mashing data types together Linking people (sharing, trading, collaborating) Organising the data - tagging content Remembering searches Teaching the machine Rethinking society

The Machine is Us / ing Us

Copyright Authorship Identity Ethics Aesthetics Rhetorics

Governance Privacy Commerce Love Family Ourselves

Looking Forward

Is society being ‘rethought’? What will the teacher’s role be in a world of

M-learning? Research directions? CAL dissertations:

– Attitudes to using mobile phones for ELT– Reading speed on iPad / Kindle / laptop / paper– Does teaching change with an IWB?