"The digital culture of the computer has become our students' way of learning, thinking and communicating. Slowly but surely it has transformed what it means to learn a foreign language, what we mean when we talk of "communicating", "negotiating meaning", and, ultimately, "understanding the other". [Blake, 2008, p. xv]
Blake, R. J. (2008). Brave new digital classroom: Technology and foreign language learning. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press.
Please browse through this page as you will find a written artifact on how I think the modern World Languages classroom should be and a mini lesson plan infused with technology.
This essay was written within the course Teaching Foreign Language with Technology with Dr. De Felice. Here I write up and critique the elements that I consider should be part of my ideal world languages classroom.
This essay is also part of an ebook edited by Dr. De Felice. This volume is the result of education professionals discussing technology use in their classrooms.
The following is a short class within the unit of The Salvadoran Civil War. It can also be considered an activity. Technology is used here as a mean for an end but it is not the end in itself.
This is the supporting material for the activity above. Translations into English have been provided for better understanding here but for lessons purposes, all L1 (English in this case) should be removed.