Web 2.0 & Language Learning

Presentation of Web 2.0 for Educators interested in language learning and emerging technologies

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• web2.0
• esl
• efl
• education
• english
• languages
• languagelearning
• web2
• language
• learning
• teaching
• secondlife
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• blogs

[prawn1111]

i'm not upset. as far as arrogance goes it is ur arrogance to claim that this nonsense assists actual learning without providing one shred of data to support your ridiculuous thesis. i have plenty to show that u r wrong and i am right. i am under no obligation to show u this. if u r beating ur head against a wall, i feel it my duty to inform u of ur idiocy, but it does not follow that i am obliged to give u sth better to do. goodbye.

[bcgstanley]

You are right - you have no duty or obligation at all to share your knowledge and experience. I hardly think your attitude is one of an educator interested in helping other people learn and am now convinced from your that you have little offer those of us who are actually actively involved in education.

[bcgstanley]

I agree to blindly follow any methodology is not the right way to work in any field. This comment makes me think you're misjudging what I and others do and our reasons for using this technology with learners. I'm actually still intrigued by your anger and arrogance, though, and would love to find out why you're so sure of yourself and so upset that teachers choose to use this technology with their learners.

[prawn1111]

it's not a negative comment mate. it's a positive comment and i am also positive that your defensiveness lends weight to my hypothesis that you aren't sure that this sort of stuff is effective even though you work so 'hard' on it. lugging sacks of dung up deadend streets is also 'hard work' but whether or not it actually achieves anything is another matter entirely.

[bcgstanley]

Interesting. I actually stand by what I've said in the video and the comments here from experience with students and from the experience of other teachers that do the same. I still don't understand why you think it's so wrong to encourage students to communicate with others from different parts of the world using this technology. Or would you rather the students just talk to themselves in a classroom?

[prawn1111]

more 'communication' and 'motivation' drivel from the krashen/ ellis etc crew and their bewildered ilk. if you actually taught them how to construct and construe meaning in english they could choose to write their own blogs without needing you to 'let' them. you can cover your classroom walls a foot thick in any nonsense you choose, but it will never compensate for what you are not doing: teaching.

[bcgstanley]

Prawn, as a practising English language teacher who does believe he works hard to help learners construct and construe meaning I'm a little bewildered at your comments. I also think the easiest thing in the world is to write a quick negative comment about somebody's efforts and would love to hear / read something more constructive about your own methodology (if it exists that is)...

[camillfa]

hello

I found your video really useful when I started teaching a distance course at the Escuela Oficial de Idiomas in Castellón.

I'm writing an article for our school magazine (distributed free to the school community) and I'd like to ask your permission to use a couple of the slides as illustrations (acknowledging the source, naturally!)

thank you for your time

Cathy Miller

[sammar1968]

thank you for your interesting presentation. I am a teacher. I really look forward to educate myself on these topics you mentioned

[Reykjadal]

, which were never more than postulations, much like Aristotle's postulation on gravity. Today an array of cognitive sciences, especially those linked to neuroscience, have shown much more promise in delivering scientific answers to the how's of language acquisition, not to mention a general language teaching methodology. Anyway, prawn, please direct your attention to modern research, forget Rousseau, Descartes, Locke, and the like. Read something by Jeff Hawkins, or any other brain scientist.

[Reykjadal]

I really do not understand why Stanley even bothered to reply, but since he did I felt as I should contribute in some way to the discussion. The use of internet based tools do not themselves constitute a pedagogical methodology. They are used as an extension to what is carried out in the classroom itself. In any case it seems as though prawn wishes to maintain, likely in his case, or revert modern ELT to saussurian standards. This is strange since we should shun from old pedagogical philosophies

[TheatricalMarketer]

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[prawn1111]

yes, i realise that most ppl 'actively involved' in eng lang 'teaching' r blowhards who hv no inclination to put in the effort 2 become a better teacher, so yes u r prbbly quite right, i'd have 0 to offer you. if stdnts r taught properly, then they can do their own blogs if they so desire (wht a waste of time anyway). telling s.b. to do a blog doesn't teach them one jot abt a lang, and just bcz u speak english doesnt mean u objectively know anything abt it. good luck with that anyway.