That's what I liked most of Luke's article. Think of all the available resources and their educational benefits in terms of the decisions that most teacher end of facing every class on teaching:
- committment to language skill development and best approaches to it
- differentiated teaching to honor individual differences
- provide best scaffolding
- ensure motivation and affect
Benefits of CALL seemed to be summarized as follows:
- More student collaboration
- More communicative competence development
- Wider and better connection to various L2 communities
- Better access to data and resources
- Individual learning and scaffolding opportunities
- Lower levels of anxiety in learning
Of course we know that the mere existence of technology does not ensure that these benefits (happen in the first place, but specially that they) translate into better teaching and learning. What else does it take? From the readings we have done so far, a good reconceptualization of teachers' role(s) and what this actually means in very concrete lesson planning and practice seems key. Of course the entire approach and udnerstanding of good vs. bad learning is the other big issue. How do we go about addressing these issues with teachers?
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