INFUSING TECHNOLOGY

INTO A LESSONTeaching English Language Learners through Technology

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Tell me, I’ll forget.Show me, I’ll remember.Involve me, I’ll understand.

Use technology with me, I’ll participate, I’ll transfer, I’ll employ and I’ll create.

Instructional Technologies (IT) based on Usage and Purpose

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1. Technologies used by the teacher for instruction, for the creation of teaching resources or for managing teaching.

2. Technologies that act as a catalyst for learning (learning instruments).

Instructional Technologies (IT) based on Usage and Purpose

What’s the difference?

1. Technologies used by the teacher for instruction, for the creation of teaching resources or for managing teaching.

2. Technologies that act as a catalyst for learning (learning instruments).

ITs can be used in multiple ways and of course depending on usage by the teacher or student can fit anywhere on the continuum of IT use.

Pedagogy always informs the choice of IT use and not the other way around.

The continuum of IT use does not imply that a teacher needs to use technology representing practices situated exclusively at the extreme right of the continuum.

Throughout a unit of work or a teaching day, a teacher will shift back and forth along the IT use continuum many times.

ITs are sometimes best utilized, not when they are used alone, but when they are used in conjunction with other complimentary ITs.

IT use requires upfront planning.

Lessons do not need to be “IT heavy.”

If you are unsure about ITs, take baby steps.

Vygotsky characterizes the zone of proximal development as the difference between a child’s “actual development level as determined by independent problem solving [and his] potential development as determined through problem solving under adult guidance or in collaboration with more capable peers.”