Discussions

Your Name and Title: Ms Verónica de la Encina



School or Organization Name: e-duTraining


Area of the World from Which You Will Present: Argentina



Language in Which You Will Present: English



Target Audience(s): teachers, teachers-to-be



Short Session Description (one line): How can digital immigrants teach digital natives? We will discuss how we, teachers, should become digital settlers to shorten the digital gap.



Full Session Description (as long as you would like):

During the last decade or so, e-learning has promised to revolutionize education. Some years later, the promise is still significant, but there are major challenges that make this progress quite slow. A key challenge is that the e-learning industry has spent more time on the development of technology than on the quality of the teaching and learning experience. We have great technology available to us, but e-learning will not reach its promise unless we can deliver the content in an engaging and effective way in the new medium.

We, teachers, seem to be working under a deadline. Just like there are many adults who have never touched a computer, many of our students have not experienced life without the Internet, much less a computer. We will be reflecting upon the digital divide and how “digital immigrants” can be teaching teach “digital natives”. Do we have to learn new strategies? Do we need to unlearn some others?