ABCI 2004

Colin PatonEducational ManagerCultura Inglesa Rio/Brasília

Technology and ELT: looking into the

crystal ball

1. The changing world we live in

2. The future

• Technology

• Internet bandwidth

• Internet multimedia

• Internet convergence

• Mobility, connectivity and speed

801 million

• Internet growth

THE DOWNSIDE OF TECHNOLOGY DEPENDENCE.....

• Internet society

• New social behaviour

•Internet haves and have-nots

•Information and communications revolution

816 million people in Africa, it is estimated that only:

• 1 in 130 have a PC (5.9m)

• 1 in 160 use the Internet (5m)

• 40% of South America's Internet users are Brazilian-- despite the fact that only 5% of Brazilians actually have

Internet access.

New ways of doing things

SOCIAL ISOLATION?

THE END OF THE FACE TO FACE CONVERSATION?

TECHNOLOGICAL ROLE PLAYING

• Internet fads • Blogging and

Flogging

• Web comunities such as ORKUT or MULTIPLY

• Peer-to-peer technologies such as KAZAA, E-mule

• Instant Messaging eg MSN, ICQ

•Wired teens

74% of teens use instant messaging regularly

53% of the existing 14 million blogs are from the 13-19 age rangePew Internet

2004

• information overload

Short life time of knowledge

....today´s physician needs to read about 17 articles a day to keep abreast with current medical knowledge...

US researchers estimate that every year 800MB of information is produced for every person on the planet.

Total information in world increases by 30% per year

In 2002 alone about five exabytes of new information was generated by the world's print, film, magnetic and optical storage systems.

1 exabyte = 500,000 Libraries of Congress

= NEED FOR LIFE LONG LEARNING

Fonte: Friday, 31 October, 2003

BBC

•the knowledge/Internet

driven economy

Global connected companies

Knowledge workers

English as business lingua franca

•Language

•English

“ We are on the brink of the biggest language revolution

ever ”

DAVID CRYSTAL

DAVID CRYSTAL

• Neither “ spoken writing” nor “ written speech”

• Tolerance of typographical error

• Relaxation of rules of spelling, punctuation and capitalization

• Breakdown of traditional rules of text organization

• Simplified grammar

• Multimedia communication

• Incredibly dynamic

• Youth driven

•Education

E-learning:

a) Flexibility

b) Cost

c) Access

1 million e-learning courses worldwideEstimated to be a 50 billion dollar industry

Recognition by MEC

•Education blended

learning

m-learning

•Primary and seconday schools in Brazil

“ Não é mais possível pensar a escola sem computador”

Carlos Seabra, Director IPPST

•Primary and seconday schools in Brazil

“In the information age, the role of the teacher is to teach students to find the right information”

Marcia Blasques, Klickeducação

TRADITIONAL MODEL CONSTRUCTIVIST MODEL

•Primary and seconday schools in Brazil

•Educational portals

• Classroom computers and projection equipment

• Better equipped multimedia labs

• Richer visual stimuli

• Web quests

• Computer simulations

• Web student publishing

• E-portfolios

• Inter-cultural virtual projects

•Primary and seconday schools in Brazil

ISSUES

1. Learner independence

2. Plagiarism

3. New relation between student-teacher-knowledge

4. Lack of training

•ELT

“ There is no doubt that the Internet....will completely transform the way that the teaching and learning of English, and the business of ELT is conducted ”

David Eastment 2002

•Wired schools

• Classroom

• Multimedia labs

• Web sites

THE WIRED CLASSROOM

• Computer projection

• Wireless mouse and keyboard

• DVD

• CD/MP3

• Internet

•More flexible course

portfolios

Online courses

Blended courses

Traditional courses

•New activity types

•Web games

•Web audio/video

•Web searches

• Web publishing

E-PRACTICE ACTIVITY

Web discoveries

http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/

Web publishing

http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/

•Teacher education • new skills

new development opportunities for

teachers • teacher development sites/online courses

• wider community sharing/learning

THE FUTURE?

Internet Technology

• TV/Internet convergence (teleputers)

• Fast video and audio over Internet

• Internet integrated to home appliances

• Mobile and “small” Internet

• Virtual travelling

Internet Technology

• Machine translation that works (the Babel fish phenomenon)

• Efficient web based speech recognition

• Optical web identification

• 3D Virtual worlds

BERKLEY UNIVERSITY VIRTUAL WORLD

Internet Technology• Tactile and olfactory engagement

• Intelligent Internet

Education

• More flexible educational programmes

• Growth of e- and blended learning

• Internationalisation of education

• Growth of just-enough education

• Growth of virtual reality in education

• Integration of video games into education

• E-portfolios

• Recognition of informal and community learning

ELT

• Increasing web based services: enrollment, payment, communities etc

• Increasingly flexible study programmes: e-learning/blended learning

• The web increasingly built into classes

• Growth of e-portfolios and student web

publishing (blogs, web pages)

• International interaction

ELT

•More technology in the classroom

ELT

• Dynamic visual aids

Web cams

"I still cannot believe I can look at something "live" halfway round the world on my computer. I love your website and visit it often. Who knows? I may see Nessie yet!" (Myra Inouyen, Hawaii).

www.camvista.com

Web cams

www.camvista.com

ELT

Task based Internet learning:

•ELT web quests

• INTRODUCTION

• WEB RESEARCH

• ROLE PLAY

• LANGUAGE FOCUS

• PUBLISH

Web quests – Amazon

Web quests – Amazon

Web quests – Amazon

Web quests – Amazon

Web quests – Amazon

Web quests – Amazon Project

English teachers

• •technologically savvy and creative with technology

• teacher web publishing

• virtual training programmes

• teacher virtual community learning

English teachers

• •internationalisation of teaching

• virtual conferences

Thank you!

colin.paton@culturainglesa.net