Future Horizons Are you there yet? What can you do? By Ann Shlapobersky

Do you remember? Gapmaster Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? Encarta Eudora Into Reading Towards Bagrut

מחר 98 Computer rooms/language labs in all schools Teacher training in CALL: Computer Assisted Language Learning

Learning by Computer Then to Now The last 20+ years CALL: behaviorist: Kill and Drill Computer / language labs WebQuests / ThinkQuests: problem solving and constructivist: communication and decision making Computers in the library with Internet Computer/ language labs + Internet CMC – Computer Mediated Communication: forums, blogs, Skype… Classroom’s with computers + Internet + projectors Classroom’s with IWB - Interactive White Boards

The Teacher’s Timeline – 20 years Language Lab: Drill / Kill Windows / Word + PowerPoint CD ROM programs Internet / Developing interactive activities Uploading /downloading Build your own homepage School Websites + social networking IWB

Our Students Timeline – 20 years Games:  Atari  Nintendo  Pacman  Tetris  Super Mario  Play Station  Dungeons and Dragons  Final Fantasy  SimCity Word / PowerPoint Internet Downloading/uploading: movies, music… Online gaming Wii SMS YouTube Twitter Facebook Second Life: Avatar

CBS 2008 : Computers in the Israel home Central Bureau of Statistics

What are you doing to keep up? ?

Some questions to think about Should we have to or can we keep up with our students’ technological knowledge and abilities? Should our students write with pens/pencils? Should the have to read from books or a computer screen? Should we allow our students to their homework to us?  Should we to them? Should our students be responsible for their computer / their Internet / their printer? Should we teach them the computer skills they need for this new technological age?  Do they know the computer skills they need for classroom usage?

What are your options? Get them used to educational use of technology:  Send the listening file to their phone (Bluetooth)  Update your class website:  with homework and when the assignment is due  when the next test or quiz is and what will be on it  extra worksheets  add video or audio clips for review, extra practice or fun:  reading a poem reading a poem  singing a song about the poem singing a song  explaining grammar explaining grammar  treasure hunt (one web page) – pre-reading treasure hunt

Web Activity Formats – for Class Use Hotlist : a list of internet sites – provides additional information about topic Multimedia Scrapbook : a collection of multimedia links (photographs, maps, stories, facts, quotations, sound clips, videos...) Treasure Hunt : questions based on the contents from a webpage/website Subject Sampler (web task) : learners explore your collection of multimedia links, includes questions based on content from the sites AND how they feel or react to it; more complex than a treasure hunt WebQuest : uses the sites you select as the starting point for a complex activity that involves multiple perspectives, possible group collaboration, and a final project of your choosing.

It’s always up to you! “The study found that students in all the laptop schools learned to access information, manage it, and incorporate in into their written and multimedia products. However, the focus on evaluating information, understanding the social issues surrounding it, and analyzing it for the purpose of knowledge production varied widely across schools. Some schools succeeded in promoting scholarly approaches to working with information, whereas other schools mostly limited themselves to teaching procedural functions of computer and Internet use." Warschauer, M.Warschauer, M. (2007). “Information Literacy in the Laptop Classroom”. In Teachers College Record, 109 (11), New York: Columbia University.Information Literacy in the Laptop ClassroomTeachers College Record

Having some fun Wordle - create word clouds Wordle Easy Define – generate word list definitions and synonyms Easy Define Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus WordSift - helps to quickly identify important words that appear in the text WordSift Bubble.us – free brainstorming tool Bubble.us Five Card Flickr – foster visual thinking Five Card Flickr PhotoMunchrs – online vocabulary game PhotoMunchrs Nik's Daily English Activities

Bibliography Central Bureau of Statistics Easy Define - ESL-Lab: Listening Comprehension - Nik's Daily English Activities - Past Simple - Richard Cory reading - Simon and Garfunkel – Richard Cory song Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus - At&T Knowledge Network: What are the formats? Warschauer M. (1996) "Computer Assisted Language Learning: an Introduction". In Fotos S. (ed.) Multimedia language teaching, Tokyo: Logos International: Warschauer, M. (2007). “Information Literacy in the Laptop Classroom”. In Teachers College Record, 109 (11), New York: Columbia University. Warschauer, M.Information Literacy in the Laptop ClassroomTeachers College Record Wordle - WordSift -

What could you do with you students during and after they see this video? Family Dinner Ann Shlapobersky –