hi everybody. i have one thing to share with you. the 2 nd grade class we are attending in metu college has an hour allocated for self english practice through computer. they go to the computer lab in one of the lesson time and it is in fortnight periodically. as they study a topic they practice those topics using computers. in computers there is a soft library including the subjects in their coursebooks, they switch on the computers by them selves and they are able to use the computer by themselves. there are few students who cannot do all that job properly but they are learning.
i think it is a very good activity for children to make them familiar with the computers and especially the academic use of technology.
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As far as I read your posts, the first and second grades have very different schedules from the fifth ones. You are very lucky to observe such different and effective activities. I agree with you about their being accustomed to computers for this aim, it is very useful I think.
their competencey in technology is surprising for me. and they are very lucky. I learned starting a computer in my high school years. thakns god I didnt go over the critical period for learning to use a computer when I started to learn it. and now I am competent enough :) but they are luckier then us. cause I think that their English will be more communicative and more permanent than most of past years' students. actually I would like to learn English from the very beginnig like how they are learning now.
In one of his articles, Marc Prensky refer to these new students of today as “Digital Natives” and states “Our students today are all “native speakers” of the digital language of computers, video games and the Internet. So what does that make the rest of us? Those of us who were not born into the digital world but have, at some later point in our lives, become fascinated by and adopted many or most aspects of the new technology are, and always will be compared to them, Digital Immigrants.
Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants :))
Aren’t you of the same idea with Prensky?
ı think he is right.
ı think he is right.
Mehmet,
I think that this is a good start as students are using the medium they are used to, but I also believe they could go much beyond in their learning process if they could create, write, interact in meaningful online collaborative projects than only using the computer to replicate the kind of mechanical activities they do in the classroom. Nowadays, there are tons of cool web applications very user-friendly in which students could be directly involved in their content creation in English. What do you think? How would be the teacher's role in this case?
I just posted an example of a student creation on my blog yesterday that might interest you to visualize what I'm talking about at explorations
Cheers from a Brazilian educator in Key West, FL.
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