Navigating the digital landscape

reflecting on the hyperlink - how has this changed the way we live?  parallels more familiar societal shifts that resulted from air travel, increased interest in languages/other cultures  history of CALL - technologies developed through military needs to function effectively in unfamiliar environments  CMC - landscape for language learning changed by mediated through computers

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to understand and find what you need  to behave appropriately in different contexts to interact, share respectfully  in technical terms: access details and password management, able to explore interface, differentiate between different forms of content, understand relevant widgets, refine and perfect hypotheses,   beg acc student mahara project: shared access to blank collection, volunteers asked to share resources they find useful to support language learning,  transversal skills - see DeSeCo project http://www.oecd.org/pisa/35070367.pdf  “new digital divide” Brandtzæg et al., 2010 - more nuanced, not binary in disctinctions between individuals

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Chickering and Gamson published in 1987 principles for good practice resting on 50 years on the way teachers teach and learners learn.   Chikering's theory of Identity development created specifically to examine student identity development process of HE students, Education and identity revised and updated version published in 1993, descrubes policies and practices that will foster broad based development of human talent necessary for 21st century.  these harness "unseen" forces in education

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2nd of the 7 principles identified = reciprocity "good learning is collaborative and social, not competitive and isolated" importance of modelling 

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link to student curated resources http://m2.warwicklanguage.org.uk/mahara/view/view.php?t=X6MCqwkeI4zcU7iBOmJ8   or tiny url: http://tinyurl.com/omczc3u  

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Gertrud (sociologist) - out of generosity, right thing to do Freddie (WBS) diverse friendship group, familiar with online resources   G it is a plus, I might be more immersed in learning french  cc and identity management:  could see why may be attractive option for some, G (Hungarian) "shows progress"

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mahara's strength is also its weakness - supports display of lots of content so can be overwhelming (F)  multimodal learning

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describing what is seen here  http://www.netpublic.fr/tag/veille/  canadian teachers  http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2015/10/heutagogy-explained-for-teachers.html   powerful forces: expectations and modelling

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