Today, I participated in an all-day workshop organized by Coastline CC. The objective of the meeting was to help design multimedia materials for EFL students in China. After the Chinese materials have been published, then they will publish materials for Spanish speakers in the US.Why was the meeting so interesting?
The people attending were TESOL faculty members, faculty members from Applied Linguistics programs, the USC people who are doing the work on gaming, people from MIT, and people from Berkely.To hear these people talk about gaming and education was incredible! One of them said that now teenagers use email for "formal" communication purposes. And they use email to send thank you notes to their friends' parents.
So the disconnect between what we, adults do and what teenagers do with technology is incredible!Hannah will experience this incredible and challenging world! Scary but true! Kuki
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