by Byron, Pete Sharma Blog
I woke up to wikis about two years ago at a conference and it took me about a year to actually design one myself. Why? Because I was afraid I didn’t know enough about them and that I’d get it wrong. Then I saw a talk on using ICT in ELT and I was convinced that I could learn by doing four things. 1 Do a little at a time (say 20 mins). 2 Do it often (or you’ll forget what you learned). 3 Expect to make lots of mistakes. 4 Don’t give up. I’ve heard a lot of resistance to learning how to use tools like this, but I’m not buying any of it. Education is moving on to what is called ‘21st Century Skills’, which refers in part to how digitally literate young people need to be to cope in a digital world. I think that as a result of this view of education, we as teachers need to have our set of digital literacy skills, in addition to our set of teaching skills. You may know the term ‘Bring your own device’ (BYOD) which refers to jobs where you have to provide your own tablet, smart phone or laptop. Well, I think that soon, in job interviews, we will be asked to ‘Bring your own digital literacy skills’ or BYODLS!
http://www.psa.eu.com/general-posts/wake-up-to-wikis
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