Transcript Current Trends in Instructional Technology

Instructional Technology
“ …. created a flat world: a global, web-enabled
platform for multiple forms of sharing
knowledge and work, irrespective of time,
distance, geography and increasingly,
language.” At the very moment this platform
emerged, three huge economies materialized - those of India, China and the former Soviet
Union --“and three billion people who were
out of the game, walked onto the playing
field.” --- Friedman
Web 2.0
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Web 2.0
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Blogs
Podcasts
Wikis
Social bookmarking
Social networks (Facebook, Ning, etc.)
Twitter
Youtube
Flikr
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Open Movement
Open Software
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Audacity
Open Office
Ubuntu
Glimp
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Mobile Technologies
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PDAs
iPhones
Cellphones
iPods, mp3, mp4 players
Netbooks
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Flat world/classroom
Web 2.0
Serious gaming
The Horizon Report
Open movement
Mobile technologies
• Are computers and other technologies going to revolutionize the
way English is learned and taught?
• Can technologies replace the teacher?
• Are teachers and students in Armenia aware of computer and
other technologies? If they are not how can they be informed
about it?
• Is Armenian society ready for the changes, namely integrating
computer and other technologies in education?
• At the course level, how can we use technologies to enhance their
EFL and technological literacy?
• Scenarios of schools that have differing technological capacities:
how to move them forward?
• If we want to move Armenia towards more technologically literate
society, how do we proceed with this task? What should be the
priorities?