Technology | Teaching English | British Council

Looking for ‘Technology in Education’ Courses

Olga_R -19 November, 2008 - 08:09

Dear colleagues,

<

Login or register to post comments
Read more

	Perspectives on early years and digital technologies
This publication is a first for us as it brings together early work from Futurelab’s PhD studentship network. This network was set up to bring together PhD students and their supervisors from Bristol, Nottingham and Stirling universities to explore how these different groups might, collaboratively, explore challenging questions around the role of digital technologies in young children’s learning. Read more early years Technology yl Top stories Login or register to post comments Read more

	Moving Teaching and Learning with Technology from Adoption to Transformation
Information technology has been an important part of higher education since the development of the lantern slide in the mid-1800s. However, occasions in which the academy has been transformed by technology are rare. Viewed in a historical perspective, these occasions can be considered as a series of three epochs: the online public-access catalog epoch; the personal computer, Internet, and web epoch. Read more development Technology Top stories Login or register to post comments Read more

Using technology in the classroom

carladelia -3 November, 2008 - 18:23

I find the use of technology in the classroom amazing. It offers great visual aids as well as listening and reading inputs through powerpoint presentations, for instance.

	The Gateway to 21st Century Skills
Today’s education system faces irrelevance unless we bridge the gap between how students live and how they learn. Schools are struggling to keep pace with the astonishing rate of change in students' lives outside of school. Students will spend their adult lives in a multitasking, multifaceted, technology driven, diverse, vibrant world Read more digital literacy Technology Top stories Login or register to post comments Read more

	Most principals think their schools prepare students for 21st-century careers, but students disagree
Students who took the survey said the major obstacles to their use of technology at school include filters that block the web sites they need and administrators who impose rules that limit their technology use. Read more literacy skills Technology Top stories Login or register to post comments Read more

	Researching Computer Mediated Communication in Foreign Language Education: Issues and Methods
EUROCALL’s Computer Mediated Communication (CMC) Special Interest Group wishes to announce the following regional workshop for foreign language educators and researchers: “Researching Computer Med cmc conference Technology Conferences Login or register to post comments Read more

	Language Learning GPS: Navigating the Future of Language Learning Technology
The IALLT board is pleased to announce that the call for proposals for IALLT 2009 is now available. conference Technology Conferences Login or register to post comments Read more

	Can video games encourage reading?
Defenders of reading are up in arms about the threat to literature that technology supposedly poses, and perhaps for good reason. computer games Technology Top stories Login or register to post comments Read more

	History of ICT in education - and where we are heading?
Why is the impact of technology on the way we learn so marginal, even though millions of dollars and euros have been spent on developing educational computer technology? Technology Top stories Login or register to post comments Read more