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Learning Languages from a Distance:
The Potential of Technology
ACTFL 2007Ann TollefsonTom Welch
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• What kind of students are in our classrooms today?
• What kind of students can we expect to have in our classrooms tomorrow?
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• Did You Know? Video clip
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We tend to teach as we have learned…
“…our generation has grown up in a broadcast world with television as a perhaps our primary source of information. It is a unidirectional transmission of content to passive receivers.”
Bobby Hobgood, Becoming an Online Teacher
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What kind of learners are our students?• They have grown up knowing and using technology to actively seek out information in a way that makes sense to them, at their own pace.
• Their primary source of information is the Internet.
• They must actively pursue, evaluate, and construct meaning from the information they pursue.
Bobby Hobgood, Becoming an Online Teacher
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How Can Technology Help Today’s and Tomorrow’s Students Learn?
What technologies exist today to support distance learning?
• The Internet • Interactive Video • Podcasting • Blogging • Video Streaming • Other?
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What IS Distance Learning?
"The acquisition of Knowledge and skills through mediated information and instruction, encompassing all technologies and other forms of learning at a distance".
US Distance Learning Association
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Courses Delivered From a DistanceK-12 courses- some examples • Via Interactive Video Conferencing:
Kentucky: French, German, Spanish FLES Spanish (1 course from an educational service
unit.)
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Courses Delivered From a DistanceK-12 courses- more examples • Via Interactive Video Conferencing:Maine: French I/ AdvancedASL 1-4Mandarin- beginningJapanese- 1-2Latin I/APSpanish AP
www.mainedistancelearningproject.org
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Courses Delivered From a DistanceK-12 courses- more examples
• Via Interactive Video Conferencing:Wisconsin: Various languages delivered
by…Schools to other schools.Regional educational service
centers.
University of Wisconsin: Mandarin(Lauren Rosen-
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Courses Delivered From a DistanceK-12 courses- more examples • Via Interactive Video Conferencing:
Wyoming: (school-to-school)French 1-3German 1Russian 1-3Spanish 1-3
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Courses Delivered From a DistanceK-12 courses- more examples
• Delivered Online:
Florida Virtual School Middle-school: Spanish 1High school: Latin 1-3
Spanish 1-3 Chinese 1
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Courses Delivered From a DistanceK-12 courses- more examples
• Delivered Online:
Florida Virtual School Middle-school: Spanish 1High school: Latin 1-3
Spanish 1-3 Chinese 1
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Courses Delivered From a DistanceK-12 courses- more examples
• Delivered Online:
North Carolina Virtual Public School German 1-4 French 1-3
Latin 1-3Spanish 1-5
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Courses Delivered From a DistanceK-12 courses- more examples
• Delivered Online: Ohio
55 world-language courses currently offered online (Spanish, Latin, French, German, Japanese, and FLES French, German, Spanish)
Primarily provided by community schools andvirtual academies (many charter schools)
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Courses Delivered From a DistanceK-12 courses- more examples
• Delivered Online: Oklahoma State
University Secondary Spanish and
German
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Courses Delivered From a DistanceK-12 courses- more examples
• Delivered Via Satellite
Kansas State University (Spanish)
Georgia Public Television (Japanese)
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Courses Delivered From a DistanceK-12 courses- A New Hybrid Course
• The Utah Mandarin Course-Utah Department of EducationBYU Chinese Flagship ProgramUtah LegislatureUniversity of Utah
• Currently 16 high schools• Next year will expand to 40+ high schools
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Courses Delivered From a DistanceK-12 courses- A New Hybrid Course
Utah Mandarin Course-1) Interactive Video Classes (50 min.)2) Trained In-class Facilitators (50 min.)
Certified teacher or univ. students3) Backed up by online resources
4) Enhanced by community and summer activities. Contact: [email protected]
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Outside the box…
What about language learning other
than traditional coursesdelivered via technology?
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You Tube video made by
200 students at Kansas State
University
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• You tube clip- A Vision of Students
Today
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Podcasts: The Potential of iTunes!
Student types in “Versailles.”
Half-minute video clip from iTunes
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Podcasts: The Potential of iTunes!
Free subscriptions to the BBC’sMundo Hoy.
Daily News in Spanish Delivered Directly to any iPod or Computer
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Podcasts: iTunes U
• Currently 28 universities
• One example: Concordia UniversityBasic Hebrew Course (video/audio podcasts)
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Other Ideas for Using Technology in the Classroom
• Webquests
• Project-based learning: iEARN Globe
• Other?