ICT IN THE EFL CLASSROOM MSc. William E. Yugsán

Time to pretend I’m going to “give you” $25,000 for your teaching. Please, decide what you are going to do with this money. IT MUST BE USED TOWARDS TECHNOLOGY FOR YOUR INSTRUCTION. educators need to build in variety the moment they plan their lessons and class activities and poetry is … Be prepared to share with the class when you are done.

Is technology… Angel? Demon? the diversity of things to be conveyed using poetry also shows the magnitude of its resources

Tim Berners-Lee WWW (1989) Collaborative medium, a place where we could all meet and read and write. 1. Stage Knowledge of HTML codes Difficult to create content 2. Stage Easy Internet publishing Specific, friendly tools

The evolution of Internet (publishing) 1. 2003 44% of internet users published their thoughts 2. 2007 64% of internet teenage users were “content creators” 3. 2009 133 million blogs (technorati.com) 4. 2009 20 hours of videos were being uploaded to youtube.com each minute.

5. 2015 There are just over 3 billion active Internet users 6. 2015 Nearly 2.1 billion people have social media accounts 7. 2015 3.65 billion mobile users have access to the internet via smartphones and tablets There are just over 3 billion active Internet users CALL E-learning M-learning

Politics Changes in our lives Journalism Business Education Consumers of information Creators of information

Amateur reporters / editors Politics Mybarackobama.com 27.000 groups Journalism The June 2013 Egyptian protests, also called June 30 Revolution Amateur reporters / editors Education Slow to adapt to these tools

More changes How we live our lives (society) The definition of privacy (young generations) Be online is part of their lives Communicating and collaborating with peers instantly Always connected

present continuous.pptx Let’s start from the basics Think about the way we present content to our students. Our students = VISUAL The Homo videns (Giovanni Sartori) Powerpoint in the classroom (using visual aids) present continuous.pptx Talk for a minute.ppt