Our conclusion on the texts read and the tasks performed during this module on New Technologies and Language Teaching is that any education system should enable productive use of prior experiences and consider the learner´s trajectory of what is popular among their ages.
Children and adolescents are becoming multimodal, schools are print oriented, though; generating alienation of pupils and what schools have to offer.
As children grow old, they take control of their interest and become more self determining.
This group agrees with Elaine Millard (2006) on the multimodality of communication processes and accessible methods through technologies.
An interesting metaphor that Millard (2006) describes is between education and cooking: in cooking the homogenization of ingredients results in transformation— in education, possibilities for new meanings; newly designed and redesigned in particular moments of meaning making.
A new literacy kind of teacher must bear this blending of elements in mind, when preparing the class plan.
Our experience as teachers and students have proved families´ role as a relevant factor to be considered.
Families have accommodated to the school system, and leave all the “traffic of information” to educational institutions, while this group sees the flow of this traffic of information as a two-way-street. School practices should not be dominated by teachers or disregarded by families.
Paula B.
References
http://www.webartigos.com/articles/3050/1/A-Educacao-E-As-Novas-Tecnologias/pagina1.html
http://www.atica.com.br/entrevistas/?e=169
Ana Aranha, Revista Época, 23 de Abril de 2007
MILLARD, E. Transformative Pedagogy: Teachers creating a literacy of fusion. New Perspectives on Language & Education, 2006.
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