Information Communication Technology in the 21st Century English Classroom
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2. Contents
0 This slideshare presentation is designed to explore the
challenges and rewards of implementing ICT in the English
classroom in the 21st century.
0 This presentation contains the following sections:
0 My How Technology Has Changed!
0 How does Technology impact on the classroom?
0 Teachers must become digital-age teachers.
0 The scandal surrounding text-speak in the 2005 VCE Exam.
0 How can English teachers use technology in the classroom?
0 Conclusion
3.
4. First it was….the printing
press
0 We were able to send messages out. This was one way
communication.
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5. Then it was…the telephone
0 An exciting innovation in which people could have a
voice-based conversation in real time and the
communication involved sound.
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6. Then it was….radio and
television
0 Now picture and/or sound could be received by a
group of people. Communication was once again one
way but it allowed us the ability to broadcast a
message to a group of people.
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9. The internet brought with it a
huge shift in technology!
The radio
Migrates to the
Internet.
Newspapers and
magazines migrate
to the internet.
Telephones migrate
to the internet.
Television, film and
photographs
migrate to the
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10. Media is becoming more social and as a result the
internet is becoming more social, constantly changing
and allowing for more communication between more
people. Guidara S (2011)
11. So what does this mean in
the English classroom?
12. It means that…..
21st Century learners in the English classroom must be
open to autonomous, assisted and collaborative
learning.
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13. In 2009…..
0 72% of Australian households had access to the
internet.
0 841,000 Australian children aged 5-15 owned a
mobile phone.
0 2.7 Million children aged 5-15 used the internet.
0 5 Million Australian households had broadband
internet.
Australian Bureau of Statistics (2009)
14. Digital Age Teachers
0 Education, according to Lord David, has not moved
fast enough into the digital world.
0 Technology has the ability to transform education.
Teachers must be open minded and become Digital-
Age Teachers.
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16. Digital Age Teachers
Have the ability to facilitate and inspire student
learning and creativity, they design digital-age learning
experiences and assessments, they model digital-age
work and learning and they are a part of learning
institutions that are rethinking the possibilities about
what can be learnt and expressed using ICT.
Guidara S (2011)
17. Scandal!
0 In 2005 the Victorian Certificate of Education English
examination paper caused an uproar. The exam asked
students to compare ‘text speak’ to a poem by John
Keats.
VCAA (2005)
19. To this…
“You fear, sometimes I do
not love you as much as you
wish.” (Keats, cited VCAA
2005: 15)
20. The problem?
SMS language had therefore emerged as a distinctive genre
of writing with its own grammatical, lexical, stylistic and
visual features (Taylor 2009:33). It was even to be analysed
by young Victorian English students. This was, for some, an
outrageous piece of text to include on an English
examination paper
Unfortunately, those who protested against this paper did
not seem to have understand that this form of language is
how some students of the 21st Century communicate to each
other. It is imperative that digital communication is analysed
and utilised in the English classroom of the 21st Century.
21. Digital communication has fundamentally changed the
ways in which young people of today, read, write, share
information and structure their communication.
22. 21st Century Students as
Producers
Students are writing using instant messaging, text
messaging, Twitter, and e-mail, sharing electronic
documents, posting on blogs and utilising social
networking sites such as facebook. (Sweeny 2010:121).
This writing is not following traditional forms but
instead students are becoming producers of technology
and incorporating music, videos and photography to
their work. The writing also changes in form as
students are using shorthand and finding some vowels
and punctuation to be irrelevant.(Sweeny 2010:121).
23. How can English teachers use
technology in their
classrooms?
Here are some examples of how easily technology can be used in
the English classroom…..
24. Are English classrooms really changing? Students are
still required to summarise passages of Shakespeare in
the English classroom, as they have for decades.
In the 21st Century however, there is so much
technology available teachers can ask students to text
or tweet that summary, forcing students to analyse and
summarise the passage in a creative way.
Sweeny (2010)
25. Wikis can be used as an online space in
which students can work on collaborative
writing projects together.
26. Creative Writing
Technology has not only changed how young people
communicate it has changed how workplaces function,
and how people collaborate on tasks (Sweeny
2010:122).
Online blogs allow English students of the 21st Century
to receive feedback on their writing from more than one
person, and this feedback may be more effective than
traditional self-editing. (Sweeny 2010:127). Students
become aware of the audience for their pieces as they
can publish writing that is received by a larger social
community. (Sweeny 2010:127)
27. Digital Age Teachers as
Producers
Teachers can create resources such as online
presentations, or videos which students can download
and watch at home. Therefore if a student is not able to
concentrate properly on a lesson, which could happen
for a variety of reasons they are still able to catch up on
what they missed by studying at home. It also allows for
students to become more independent learners and to
take ownership of their own learning through the
resources that are available using ICT.
(Rance-Roney 2010)
28. To Conclude…..
English teachers must become Digital-Age Teachers.
They must be aware of the new technology that their
students are using to communicate to one another and
they must endeavour to use this technology, apply this
technology and understand this technology in order to
create a Digital Learning Space in the English classroom
the 21st century.
29. References
0 Guidaria S (2011) “Understanding 21st Century Learning” Digimuve Presentation
Slideshare Accessed at: [http://www.slideshare.net/guidars/cse-leadership-in-digital-
age-education] on November 4 2011
0 Australian Bureau of Statistics (2009) “Household Use of Information Technology”
accessed at:
[http://www.ausstats.abs.gov.au/Ausstats/subscriber.nsf/0/9B44779BD8AF6A9CCA2
5768D0021EEC3/$File/81460_2008-09.pdf] On November 4 2011
0 Victorian Curriculum Assessment Authority (2005) English Exam Paper Melbourne.
Available
at:[http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/vce/studies/english/pastexams/2005english.pdf] on
November 4 2011
0 Taylor C (2009) “Pre-paid Literacy: Negotiating the Cost of Adolescent Mobile
Technology Use” English in Australia44(2) pp.26-34
0 Rance-Roney J (2010) “Jump-Starting Language and Schema for English Language
Leaners: Teacher-Composed Digital Jumpstarts for Academic Reading” Journal of
Adolescent & Adult Literacy 53:5 pp.386-395
0 Sweeny M (2010) “Writing for the Instant Messaging and Text Messaging Generation:
Using New Literacies to Support Writing Instructions” Journal of Adolescent and Adult
Literacy October 54:2 pp.121-130
