Teacher Thanh's document

Using the Internet in ELT
presented by:János Blasszauer
Longman 3rd KICK-OFF CONFERENCE
ELTE-CETT, Budapest
8 September, 2001
Using the Internet in ELT
„Information is a wonderful thing, but it is not knowledge.
You wouldn’t be educated if you managed to memorise the entire encyclopedia.
You would just be weird.” David McCullough (historian)
Summary of Talk
Introduction
Basic principles
The vision of today’s education
Welcome to the realm of the Internet
The Internet as a communication tool
Internet-based projects
Summary
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Basic Principles
Students learn by doing.
Students will write when they have an interested audience and when they have something to say.
Pedagogical Vision
The Vision of today’s education
Transform students from being passive recipients of the learning process to take an active initiative and be productive contributors of the process.--> Teachers become facilitators of student independent, active learning
Empower students to become lifelong learners.
Empower ordinary people to do extraordinary things.
Enable students to cope with the challenges that the information society poses.
Cemetery model
"When schools open this fall, the overwhelming majority of students across the country will file into ordered rows, pick up their books, and face their teachers. They will be taught in one subject and then move on to the next, in a recurring pattern of teacher-led instruction and assessment. This approach--seated in rows, quietly and passively receiving knowledge—is called the cemetery model."
-Roland Tharp (author/educator), "Teaching Transformed: Achieving
Excellence, Fairness, Inclusion and Harmony"

Famous quotes
"A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary."
-- Thomas Carruthers
"Education would be so much more effective if its purpose were to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they don`t know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it."
-- Sir William Haley
"The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change." -- Carl Rogers
"What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child."
--George Bernard Shaw
Why use the Internet?
Motivation (intrinsic)
Internet is trendy
Future career
Lifelong learning (builds basic life skills)
Students appreciate the usefulness of acquiring English language skills
Higher awareness of the world around them
“practise makes perfect”
Active communication, self expression
Builds the learners` confidence in their language abilities
Makes language learning more relevant
Puts things the learners have learned into a meaningful context
Connects the learners to the world outside the classroom
Provides motivation for the learners to investigate & use L2 outside the classroom
Life Before the Computer
An application was for employment
A programme was a TV show.
A keyboard was a piano.
Memory was something that you lost with age.
A CD was a bank account.(Certificate of Deposit)
If you unzipped anything in public you’d be in jail for awhile!
Log on was adding wood to fire.
Hard drive was a long trip on the road.
A mouse pad was where your mouse lived and a backup happened to your commode!
Cut you did with a pocket knife and paste you did with glue.
A web was a spider’s home and a virus was the flue!
If you had a 3 1/2 inch floppy you hoped nobody found out!
Welcome to the realm of the Internet
mailing lists (TESL-L, Neteach-L, Eltecs)
Newsgroups (alt.usage.english, k12.lang.art)
Web Discussion Boards (ESL MessageExchange, ESL Discussion Center)
Internet clubs
online conferences
books, dictionaries, newspapers, magazines, e-zines,
lesson plans, tutorials, online useful tools
freeware, shareware
MOOs (SchMOOze)
libraries, associations,
chatrooms (ESL Chat Central)
The Internet as a communication tool
brings together like-minded people
foster collaboration between and among different communities, scientists, researchers, students, teachers etc.
exchange and share information
find and give help
work together on common goals
work on, discuss and share projects
Internet-based projects 1
Project-based learning
active learning
explore, observe, photograph i.e.. Interact with their environment
collect and analyse data
solve problems
create, discuss,report and share their findings; working as part of a team
integrating skills
promote learner autonomy
authenticity (gaining meaning from reading authentic materials, writing for an audience, communicating with others outside the classroom)
give voice to one’s opinion
prepares learners for lifelong learning
Components of Successful Programme
Integration
Computer competence
Active teacher involvement
Internet-based projects 2
Why do e-mail exchange?
highly motivating
share thoughts and opinions
put English into „real-world” context for students
provide greater range of language than might be encountered in the classroom
focus is on content and communication
promotes tolerance, cultural awareness
Telecollaborative projects 1
Global SchoolNet’s Projects & Programs
(www.gsn.org/project/index.html): This is the most comprehensive
of all of the K–12 telecollaborative projects directories. Don’t miss
the searchable Internet Projects Registry at this site

KIDPROJ (an aspect of KIDLINK,
www.kidlink.org/KIDPROJ/index.html): These globally focused
projects involve learners aged 15 and younger from many different
countries. All student participants must answer four questions about
themselves and their ideas for making the world a better place prior
to project participation.

I*EARN Projects (www.igc.apc.org/iearn/projects.html): These are
primarily social action projects involving participants from very
diverse geographic locations.
Telecollaborative Projects 2

NickNacks Telecollaboration
(www1.minn.net/~schubert/EdHelpers.html): This site contains
many helpful suggestions about how to participate in educational
telecollaboration. NickNacks also sponsors and points visitors to
high-quality, curriculum-based projects.

Blue Web’n (www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/): This
project-review service helps us locate telecollaboration opportunities
according to curriculum area and four activity types—Web-based
activities, Web-based projects, Web-based tutorials, and Unit &
Lesson Plans. The contents of Blue Web’n’s large projects database
can also be searched by keyword.


E-mail projects
Penpal listings for elementary through high school:
E-mail Classroom Exchanges at http://www.iglou.com/xchange/ece/index.html
KEYPAL International at http://www.collegebound.com/keypals/
WeNet Keypals at http://www2.waikato.ac.nz/education/WeNET/key/khome.html

Penpal listings for all levels (including college)
Intercultural E-Mail Classroom Connections at
http://www.stolaf.edu/network/iecc/index.html.
Linguistic Funland`s e-mail penpal listings at http://www.tesol.net/tesl.html
Whetting your students appetite
As an introduction to the web you can surf with students some sites whose topics you know appeal to them.
Create a collection of bookmarks/favorites!
These are some of the websites I found useful:
www.timecast.com: for modern music.
www.nba.com: the famous basketball team’s website
www.audionet.com: online radio programs
www.hollywood.com: films
www.altavista.com: to introduce search engines

What can teachers do?
check how an upcoming lesson can be supplemented by using the potential of the Net
constant bookmarking
investigate the collections of others
evaluation of sites (SCAD checklist)
become familiar with resources online in your content area
How to Approach the Internet
Don’t get frustrated!
Give yourself time to explore.
Find a mentor to help.
Look for personal interest first.
Sign up for an ICT course.
Summary
Properly applied the Internet has an enormous potential
emphasise real language use in a meaningful, authentic context
integrate skills
promote learner autonomy
develop critical thinking
motivating
provide greater range of language use than might be encountered in the classroom
focus is on content and communication
consider carefully the students’ needs
Recommended Sites 1
"Entering the World Wide Web: A Guide to Cyberspace" at
http://www.cornell-iowa.edu/InternetDocs/guide.61/guide.toc.html
Everything you ever wanted to know about the World Wide Web can be
found at this site along with general information on the Internet and why it
is so popular.
• "Harnessing the Power of the Web for Classroom Use: A Tutorial" at
http://www.gsn.org/web/tutorial/index.htm An on-line tutorial focusing on
utilizing the World Wide Web specifically geared for the education
environment.
"Internet Public Library Youth Division" at http://ipl.sils.umich.edu/youth/
consists of an on-line library for young students. This site includes a
newsletter for kids, responses by illustrators and authors to questions from
children, and an exploration of the world of reading. It even includes a
story hour!
• "My Virtual Reference Desk" at http://www.refdesk.com/ provides a
one-stop reference guide to facts, encyclopedias, and newspapers. Visit "Netiquette 101" at
http://www.netlinks.net/Netlinks/NEWBIE/NETIQUET.HTML for a
comprehensive Web site describing the emerging norms for proper
communication on the Internet.

Recommended Sites 2
"On-Line Educational Resources" at
http://www.ed.gov/EdRes/EdCurric.html from the U.S. Department of Education lists comprehensive and relevant curriculum resources.
• "AskERIC" at http://ericir.syr.edu has a database of lesson plans on a variety of subjects, research materials, and a question and answer service.
"Yahoo" at http://www.yahoo.com
A very popular and easy-to-use topical index to the World Wide Web`s information.
• "Yahooligans at http://www.yahooligans.com/
A web guide specifically designed for kids. This is a solid resource which offers safe viewing by students and kids of all ages.
Thank you for your attention!

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