2007年2月9日
Digital Distraction
Every coin has two sides. While we enjoy the convinience brought by Advanced technology, we also have to take a serious thinking on the problems it has brought or might bring to us. From my personal experience here at NIE, it’s really attempting to surf with my laptop rather than take notes of what teachers say, though I seem to take notes seriously and ponder on them. And I believe most of my classmates have the same experience. Mostly it is not because that the lecture is not interesting or informative enough. So in this situation as described by the writer, technology keep us away from concentrating on lecture. But, technology is not to blame. Whether it can serve classroom teaching well depends on how we make use of it. Maybe, in future teaching practice, this will be one of the prblems that I must face. I believe banning the use of laptop when it’s not necessary, when lectures are going on, is a good way to solve this problem. Or maybe, by some technological means, we can control students’ access to internet or the content they can access.
Webography
Language Learning and Teaching
URL: http://llt.msu.edu/vol3num1/hoven/
Language Learning & Technology is a refereed journal which began publication in July 1997. The journal seeks to disseminate research to foreign and second language educators in the US and around the world on issues related to technology and language education.
Language Learning & Technology is sponsored and funded by the University of Hawai'i National Foreign Language Resource Center (NFLRC) and the Michigan State University Center for Language Education And Research (CLEAR), and is co-sponsored by the Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL). Language Learning & Technology is a fully refereed journal with an editorial board of scholars in the fields of second language acquisition and computer-assisted language learning. The focus of the publication is not technology per se, but rather issues related to language learning and language teaching, and how they are affected or enhanced by the use of technologies. Language Learning & Technology is published exclusively on the World Wide Web. In this way, the journal seeks to (a) reach a broad audience in a timely manner, (b) provide a multimedia format which can more fully illustrate the technologies under discussion, and (c) provide hypermedia links to related background information. Beginning with Volume 7, Number 1, Language Learning & Technology is indexed in the exclusive Institute for Scientific Information's (ISI) Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), ISI Alerting Services, Social Scisearch, and Current Contents/Social and Behavioral Sciences. The content is regularly renewed.
About.com
URL: http://esl.about.com/cs/teachinglistening/a/a_tlisten.htm
From the description of the site, it can be found that this site is sponsored by The New York Times Company. It mainly provides practical advice and solutions for every day life. Contents related to teaching and learning English listening with the help of IT can be found. The purpose of this site is to provide various guidance to readers. The content is well organized and not regularly renewed. All the links work well. It’s useful for learners who want to improve their listening ability or teachers.
The teaching English
URL: http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/think/listen/listen_frame.shtml
This site is sponsored by both the British Broadcasting Corporation and the British Council, both of which receive funding from the UK government for their work. The project is non-commercial and as such all content and material on the site is and will always be free to access. The materials on this site are designed for non-native speaker teachers of English working predominantly in secondary education in state schools around the world. The site is designed to help teachers of English exchange their thoughts, ideas and materials and to provide materials, activities and ideas for teaching. Also, many links to English teaching are available and they work well. The content is well designed and no site map are provided.
Learning To Read
URL: http://www.toread.com/
This is a personal site designed by John Nemes. The purpose of this web page is to improve the quality of reading instruction through the study of the reading process and teaching techniques. It will serve as a clearinghouse for the dissemination of reading research through conferences, journals and other publications. Developments in literacy, professional materials, research and critical issues are provided in the form of links. It’s helpful to English teachers and those who interested in and try to improve their English reading ability. Contact mail is provided. Links work well. Various views on reading are provided, so the site is supposed to be objective. The content is well organized and not regularly renewed.
The standards site
URL: http://www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/rosereview/
This site is sponsored by the U.K. government to provide instructions for English teachers. Some personal ideas on teaching English are provided which can help English teachers from various angles. Different views are presented and no obvious bias can be found, so this site is objective. And the date is showed for the latest updates and the content is not regularly renewed. Many links related to teaching are provided and they work well. The content is neatly presented.
Ohio ESL
URL: http://www.ohiou.edu/esl/teacher/listening.html
This site is owned by Ohio University. It provides listening resources for teachers. Also, some research articles in pedagogy and lesson plan for teaching listening can also be found. The external links work well. Contents are neatly organized and not regularly renewed.
Teaching today
URL: http://www.glencoe.com/sec/teachingtoday/tiparchive.phtml/7
This is a site sponsored by Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, a division of the Educational and Professional Publishing Group of The McGraw-Hill Companies. This site is designed especially for teachers. It provides them with teaching tips, web-resources of teaching materials and some research articles for references, which is very helpful for teachers in their daily teaching. This site is very neatly organized and a site map is provided. The content is not regularly renewed. No obvious bias can be found in the content.
URL: http://llt.msu.edu/vol3num1/hoven/
Language Learning & Technology is a refereed journal which began publication in July 1997. The journal seeks to disseminate research to foreign and second language educators in the US and around the world on issues related to technology and language education.
Language Learning & Technology is sponsored and funded by the University of Hawai'i National Foreign Language Resource Center (NFLRC) and the Michigan State University Center for Language Education And Research (CLEAR), and is co-sponsored by the Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL). Language Learning & Technology is a fully refereed journal with an editorial board of scholars in the fields of second language acquisition and computer-assisted language learning. The focus of the publication is not technology per se, but rather issues related to language learning and language teaching, and how they are affected or enhanced by the use of technologies. Language Learning & Technology is published exclusively on the World Wide Web. In this way, the journal seeks to (a) reach a broad audience in a timely manner, (b) provide a multimedia format which can more fully illustrate the technologies under discussion, and (c) provide hypermedia links to related background information. Beginning with Volume 7, Number 1, Language Learning & Technology is indexed in the exclusive Institute for Scientific Information's (ISI) Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), ISI Alerting Services, Social Scisearch, and Current Contents/Social and Behavioral Sciences. The content is regularly renewed.
About.com
URL: http://esl.about.com/cs/teachinglistening/a/a_tlisten.htm
From the description of the site, it can be found that this site is sponsored by The New York Times Company. It mainly provides practical advice and solutions for every day life. Contents related to teaching and learning English listening with the help of IT can be found. The purpose of this site is to provide various guidance to readers. The content is well organized and not regularly renewed. All the links work well. It’s useful for learners who want to improve their listening ability or teachers.
The teaching English
URL: http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/think/listen/listen_frame.shtml
This site is sponsored by both the British Broadcasting Corporation and the British Council, both of which receive funding from the UK government for their work. The project is non-commercial and as such all content and material on the site is and will always be free to access. The materials on this site are designed for non-native speaker teachers of English working predominantly in secondary education in state schools around the world. The site is designed to help teachers of English exchange their thoughts, ideas and materials and to provide materials, activities and ideas for teaching. Also, many links to English teaching are available and they work well. The content is well designed and no site map are provided.
Learning To Read
URL: http://www.toread.com/
This is a personal site designed by John Nemes. The purpose of this web page is to improve the quality of reading instruction through the study of the reading process and teaching techniques. It will serve as a clearinghouse for the dissemination of reading research through conferences, journals and other publications. Developments in literacy, professional materials, research and critical issues are provided in the form of links. It’s helpful to English teachers and those who interested in and try to improve their English reading ability. Contact mail is provided. Links work well. Various views on reading are provided, so the site is supposed to be objective. The content is well organized and not regularly renewed.
The standards site
URL: http://www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/rosereview/
This site is sponsored by the U.K. government to provide instructions for English teachers. Some personal ideas on teaching English are provided which can help English teachers from various angles. Different views are presented and no obvious bias can be found, so this site is objective. And the date is showed for the latest updates and the content is not regularly renewed. Many links related to teaching are provided and they work well. The content is neatly presented.
Ohio ESL
URL: http://www.ohiou.edu/esl/teacher/listening.html
This site is owned by Ohio University. It provides listening resources for teachers. Also, some research articles in pedagogy and lesson plan for teaching listening can also be found. The external links work well. Contents are neatly organized and not regularly renewed.
Teaching today
URL: http://www.glencoe.com/sec/teachingtoday/tiparchive.phtml/7
This is a site sponsored by Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, a division of the Educational and Professional Publishing Group of The McGraw-Hill Companies. This site is designed especially for teachers. It provides them with teaching tips, web-resources of teaching materials and some research articles for references, which is very helpful for teachers in their daily teaching. This site is very neatly organized and a site map is provided. The content is not regularly renewed. No obvious bias can be found in the content.
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