Grounded Technology Integration Using World Language Learning Activity Types
van Olphen, Marcela Hofer, Mark Harris, Judi
van Olphen, Marcela
Hofer, Mark
Harris, Judi
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Wikis, blogs, YouTube, iTunes, virtual field trips, and Web radio offer world language teachers and students a multitude of opportunities and resources to experience distant cultures and languages in more readily and easily accessible ways. When integrated into a student-centered world languages curriculum, these educational technologies can help to enhance language learning and teaching in ways not possible before. However, the increasing number and expanding possibilities of new technologies for language instruction may obfuscate their most appropriate instructional uses and distract from meeting learning goals. How can we channel our efforts so that we truly integrate technology into world language instruction, instead of using it as an add-on? What does it take to use technologies meaningfully without losing focus upon content and pedagogy?
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2009
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Learning & Leading with Technology
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Van Olphen, M., Hofer, M., & Harris, J. (2009-10). Grounded tech integration: Languages. Learning & Leading with Technology. 37(4), 26-28.