Professional
Interests
Job
Interests
With an MA in
TESOL and in Instructional Technology (IT), I am,
of course, most interested in work that is
complementary to the two areas and am especially
interesting in creating on-line learning
environments for second language learning, an
area which I feel is ripe for exploitation by
second language educators. I hope to find a job
as the technology coordinator at a university in
Madrid where I would be responsible for
integrating technology into the curriculum and
working with teachers on how to use and integrate
the technology into their courses.
What
I Feel is Important to Integrating Technology
into a Curriculum
Another area of
instructional technology which I feel is very
important is the theoretical implications of
integrating technology into the curriculum,
second language or otherwise. It is important to
develop learning environments which are based on
sound pedagogy and which have a firm base in
theories which relate to the integration of
technology into an educational curriculum. Put
more simply, we need to integrate technology into
the curriculum, not the curriculum into the
technology.
Imagine a school
which *acquires* a commercial software package as
is frequently the case. If administrators and
teachers are thinking about how they can use the
software in their classes, how the schedule
should be set up to allow the different classes
access to the computer lab, etc., they are, in
fact, integrating the curriculum into the
technology.
What a teacher,
administrator, school should be thinking is, what
is the curriculum and what are the instructional
objectives? Based on what the instructional
objectives are, what would be the best way for
the students to learn those objectives? If it is
decided that technology would be the best way for
the students to learn those objects, they should
begin thinking about which form of technology to
use and how to best integrate that technology in
order to accomplish the desired learning
objectives. Ok, enough of the preaching, but you
see what I'm interested in, right?
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