1. ABCI 2004 Colin Paton Educational Manager Cultura Inglesa Rio/Brasília Technology and ELT: looking into the crystal ball

2. 1.The changing world we live in 2.The future

3. Technology Internet bandwidth Internet multimedia Internet convergence Mobility, connectivity and speed 801 million Internet growth

4. THE DOWNSIDE OF TECHNOLOGY DEPENDENCE.....

5. Internet society New social behaviour Internet haves and have-nots Information and communications revolution 816 million people in Africa, it is estimated that only: 1 in 130 have a PC (5.9m) 1 in 160 use the Internet (5m) 40% of South America's Internet users are Brazilian-- despite the fact that only 5% of Brazilians actually have Internet access.

6. New ways of doing things

7. SOCIAL ISOLATION?

8. THE END OF THE FACE TO FACE CONVERSATION?

9. TECHNOLOGICAL ROLE PLAYING

10. Internet fads Blogging and Flogging Web comunities such as ORKUT or MULTIPLY Peer-to-peer technologies such as KAZAA, E-mule Instant Messaging eg MSN, ICQ

11. Wired teens 74% of teens use instant messaging regularly 53% of the existing 14 million blogs are from the 13-19 age range Pew Internet 2004

12. information overload Short life time of knowledge....today´s physician needs to read about 17 articles a day to keep abreast with current medical knowledge... US researchers estimate that every year 800MB of information is produced for every person on the planet. Total information in world increases by 30% per year In 2002 alone about five exabytes of new information was generated by the world's print, film, magnetic and optical storage systems. 1 exabyte = 500,000 Libraries of Congress = NEED FOR LIFE LONG LEARNING Fonte: Friday, 31 October, 2003 BBC

13. the knowledge/Internet driven economy Global connected companies Knowledge workers English as business lingua franca

14. Language

15. English “ We are on the brink of the biggest language revolution ever ” DAVID CRYSTAL

16. Neither “ spoken writing” nor “ written speech” Tolerance of typographical error Relaxation of rules of spelling, punctuation and capitalization Breakdown of traditional rules of text organization Simplified grammar Multimedia communication Incredibly dynamic Youth driven

17. Education E-learning: a)Flexibility b)Cost c)Access 1 million e-learning courses worldwide Estimated to be a 50 billion dollar industry Recognition by MEC

18. Education blended learning m-learning

19. Primary and seconday schools in Brazil “ Não é mais possível pensar a escola sem computador” Carlos Seabra, Director IPPST

20. Primary and seconday schools in Brazil “In the information age, the role of the teacher is to teach students to find the right information” Marcia Blasques, Klickeducação TRADITIONAL MODEL  CONSTRUCTIVIST MODEL

21. Primary and seconday schools in Brazil Educational portals Classroom computers and projection equipment Better equipped multimedia labs Richer visual stimuli Web quests Computer simulations Web student publishing E-portfolios Inter-cultural virtual projects

22. Primary and seconday schools in Brazil ISSUES 1.Learner independence 2.Plagiarism 3.New relation between student-teacher- knowledge 4.Lack of training

23. ELT

24. “ There is no doubt that the Internet....will completely transform the way that the teaching and learning of English, and the business of ELT is conducted ” David Eastment 2002

25. Wired schools Classroom Multimedia labs Web sites

26. THE WIRED CLASSROOM Computer projection Wireless mouse and keyboard DVD CD/MP3 Internet

29. More flexible course portfolios Online courses Blended courses Traditional courses

30. New activity types Web games Web audio/video Web searches Web publishing

31. E-PRACTICE ACTIVITY

32. Web discoveries http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com /

33. Web publishing http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com /

34. Teacher education new skills

35. new development opportunities for teachers teacher development sites/online courses wider community sharing/learning

37. THE FUTURE?

38. Internet Technology TV/Internet convergence (teleputers) Fast video and audio over Internet Internet integrated to home appliances Mobile and “small” Internet Virtual travelling

40. Internet Technology Machine translation that works (the Babel fish phenomenon) Efficient web based speech recognition Optical web identification 3D Virtual worlds

41. BERKLEY UNIVERSITY VIRTUAL WORLD

42. Internet Technology Tactile and olfactory engagement Intelligent Internet

43. Education More flexible educational programmes Growth of e- and blended learning Internationalisation of education Growth of just-enough education Growth of virtual reality in education Integration of video games into education E-portfolios Recognition of informal and community learning

44. ELT Increasing web based services: enrollment, payment, communities etc Increasingly flexible study programmes: e-learning/blended learning The web increasingly built into classes Growth of e-portfolios and student web publishing (blogs, web pages) International interaction

45. ELT More technology in the classroom

46. ELT Dynamic visual aids

47. Web cams " I still cannot believe I can look at something "live" halfway round the world on my computer. I love your website and visit it often. Who knows? I may see Nessie yet!" (Myra Inouyen, Hawaii). www.camvista.com

48. Web cams www.camvista.com

49. ELT Task based Internet learning: ELT web quests INTRODUCTION WEB RESEARCH ROLE PLAY LANGUAGE FOCUS PUBLISH

50. Web quests – Amazon

55. Web quests – Amazon Project

56. English teachers technologically savvy and creative with technology teacher web publishing virtual training programmes teacher virtual community learning

58. English teachers internationalisation of teaching virtual conferences

60. Thank you! colin.paton@culturainglesa.net