AMLA 610 - 2015
Course Description
This course is designed to provide participants with a pedagogical grounding in effective uses for technology in language instruction. Rather than simply an “add-on” to traditional delivery methods, technology, when used appropriately, may be even more effective in aiding students to achieve the nationally accepted standards for language learning (ACTFL’s World Readiness Standards). Technology can communicate in the language students speak! The course begins with background information on communicative language teaching and content-based instruction as well as learning styles and course design. Participants then apply these concepts to different digital media (blogs, web pages, podcasts, etc.) in concrete assignments designed to be immediately applicable to their classrooms and curriculum. Understanding that teachers are no longer the “sage on the stage” or the director in a Broadway production but rather a manager coaching learners with a variety of tools, participants will leave this class with theoretical and practical knowledge. We will work together to expand the experience, knowledge, and scholarship that participants contribute to this class in order to embrace and value the habits of mind that are the foundation of the Concordia Goals for Liberal Learning.
This course will emphasize:
● Pedagogical and theoretical frameworks for effective uses of technology in language instruction
● Communicative, contextualized language teaching, content-based instruction
● Developing skills to use technology to enhance teaching
● Access to the digital world in language classrooms
● Using technology to enhance the 5C’s
This course will emphasize:
● Pedagogical and theoretical frameworks for effective uses of technology in language instruction
● Communicative, contextualized language teaching, content-based instruction
● Developing skills to use technology to enhance teaching
● Access to the digital world in language classrooms
● Using technology to enhance the 5C’s