Your Name and Title:
Mrs. Erica Coutrim
School or Organization Name:
University of Sao Paulo
Co-Presenter Name(s):
Area of the World from Which You Will Present:
Berlin, Germany
Language in Which You Will Present:
English
Target Audience(s):
teacher, language teachers, educators
Short Session Description (one line):
Teachers fell frequently under pressure to use technology in the classroom, but is possible to improve the acquisition process and to value the teaching profession at the same time.
Full Session Description (as long as you would like):
The presentation will be based on my the PhD thesis and on my work as german language teacher for 16 years.
I have been worried about the huge pressure under the teachers (specifically under language teachers) to use technology in the classroom as a way to solve many acquisiton problems and also as a way to show the society that the school is prepared to deal with the implications of the global society.
Unfortunally I could realize through my research, that the use of technology do not have achieved the expected results. Actually we could observe that the teachers still being prepared to use dated methods in a different environment (virtual).
Since thousand years, language teachers have been prepared to act like knowledge transmitters, actualy in a similar way since the Sumerians age. Now they have being seen as unskilled professionals to deal with technology and, consequently, to teach.
According to this situation, schools and developers of teacher materials offer courses to prepare the language teachers frequently only in technical terms, what is obviously not enough.
In this new context of globalization, teachers can use the technology as a way to do their work autonomously, as a way to access the information only the academic researchers could access before and to choose the tools they can apply to specific contexts. Technology can be a way to set language teachers free from commercial interests and give them the due value they don't have since a long time in the Western world.
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