LICENCIATURA EN LA ENSEANZA DEL IDIOMA INGLS CON ESPECIALIZACIN EN TECNOLOGA EDUCATIVA

Instructor: Licenciada Silvia Sowa

Communication has different forms. Not only communication is important regardless of the form it takes, but it is also a tool. Due to the need of communicating despite of the distance communication has evolve into telecommunication. Telecommunications also have different ways and teachers can take advantage of them in teaching.

 GENERAL
Understand the meaning and purposes of

telecommunication for teaching.

SPECIFIC
Understand the basic concepts and characteristics of

communication and telecommunication. Identify the patterns and stragtegies applied in telecommunication.

TELECOMMUNICATIONS Communicating and Accessing

COMMUNICATION

TELECOMMUNICATIONS

LEARNING WITH TELECOMMUNICATIONS

TEACHING WITH TELECOMMUNICATIONS

THE FEATURES AND FUNCTIONS OF TELECOMMUNICATION S

COMMUNICATION It is the ability to obtain information. It is related to people. It is a need to relate with others, to be able to find common interests, to be listened, to be understood, and the need to get information.
ELEMENTS OF COMMUNICATION
Source Message Encoding Channel Receiver Decoding Feedback --- The source is the originator of the idea which will be passed across as a message. --- The stimulus is what triggers the source to present the message. --- The message is the information passed across. --- The channel is the medium through which the message is communicated. --- The receiver is the person who decodes the message. --- Feedback is the response of the receiver to the message.

CHARACTERISTICS OF COMMUNICATION
Familiarity Formality Audience Purpose Timeline Method Style Critical Casual Reactive Personal Proactive Impersonal

COMMUNICATIONS CAN BE
Interactive No intentions of response: TV news for example. (Not sure about this) Interactive: It gives and takes responses: blogs, open programs, forums, emails, etc. Private or intended: Limited to certain audience, for limited distribution. Public: Widespread audiences, indiscriminate distribution.

TELECOMMUNICATIONS (Technologically speaking) It is the communication at distance. The use of networks, or systems of computers in a globalized media format of cyberspace to be communicated.
THREE CHARACTERISTICS RELATED TO TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND CYBERSPACE
Simultaneously, real and artificial Between individuals and groups in a "creative" output Independent communication format, of time and space.

WHAT ARE ADVANTAGES OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS TOOLS? TELECOMMUNICATIONS IN THE CLASSROOM: They are the ones that teachers use wisely
in order to promote learning experiences using different formats.

1. It brings real-world experiences to the classroom. 2. It helps students perceive knowledge as constructed. 3. it provides students with effective model of life-long learning processes. 4. It bolsters or reinforces social communication, and critical thinking skills. 5. It encounters emerging standards for inquiry based learning. 6. It increases the authenticity of learning environments. 7. It locates human face to face with learning experiences. 8. It finds role models for communication. 9. It promotes equity as it is for all. Even in different scenarios it can be accessible. 10. It can change the way in teachers and students behaviors and ways to access to reality. 11. It creates learning communities, in a more collaborative world.

IMPACT OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS IN THE CLASSROOM According to Armstrong 81995) there are 3 ways in which it impacts in the classroom.
1. IN TEACHING: It can change the way teachers teach. Knowledge is available for teachers and students, it locates resources, it evaluates information, it finds meaning, it encounters relevance, quality, application, interactivity through learning experiences. 2. WITH INFORMATION: It provides in-depth and current resources and information. Through line services, up to the minute information, all areas of Knowledge is covered. It helps to discriminate information. 3. REAL LIFE: It provides opportunities to make learning come alive, more relevant, Realistic, and to actively engage students, by being interactive and prepares students to face real-world environments.

THE FEATURES AND FUNCTIONS OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Communicating
Asynchronous Communication Telnet Internet service Provider E-mail Listservs Bulletin Usenet Newsgroups Synchronous Communication internet relay, chat, internet MUD MOO MUSE Conferencing

Accessing Information
World Wide Web Web Browser URL Bookmarks HTTP HTML FTP Search Engines

LEARNING WITH TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Living in an Information World

Netiquette
Interacting with others Commercial Activities Using resources Dos and Don'ts Copyright

Telecommunications as a General Concept

Search Strategies
Analyze Topic Choose Search Engine Narrow the Search Troubleshooting

Evaluating Information
Separate Content from form Attend to resource Check for Validity

TEACHING WITH TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Five Patterns of Use
Tele-Access Virtual Publishing Tele-Presence Tele-Mentoring Tele-Sharing

Ten Telecommunications Teaching Strategies

Electronic Key pals Web Mentoring Web Collaboration Web Survey Cooperative Challenge Social Action Web Publishing Simulations Web Quests

 The advances in telecommunications allow teachers to

provide more opportunities of learning to students. Who could ever thought of an online class or a wiki group that replace the old learning strategies.
Telecommunication is a great tool, but it is also a

process to teach our students how to use it and how to get the most out of it.

 TEACHING FOR TECHNOLOGY Priscilla Norton & Debra Sprague

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