Deliverd in URUTESOL CONVENTION 2011

1. Successfully Facing the Digital Challenge Lic. Mariana Porta COSTA DE ORO CARRASCO

3. Paradigm shift ? Khun: paradigm shift Scientific advancement is not evolutionary, but rather a "series of peaceful interludes punctuated by intellectually violent revolutions", and in those revolutions "one conceptual world view is replaced by another".

4. Significant technological change!

5. How has fire changed the way we eat? How does the teaching and/or learning process change? How do our teaching and learning practices change? How do our teaching resources change? How could our classroom change? How do ICTs change the way we teach and learn?

9. Digital Literacy involves Critical Thinking Skills Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives http://eduscapes.com/tap/topic69.htm

10. Keep it in mind! The European Union’s concern for the basic training for Information Society has also brought together experts and policymakers to consider “digital competence” as one of the eight key competences that young people should have developed by the end of initial education and training to a level that equips them for adult life . Alfonso Gutierrez Martin, 2011

11. Complete: before and after ICTs

12. Breaking the challenge into its components

14. Communicating

15. The appearance of digital genre When a type of discourse or communicative action acquires a common name within a given context or community, that’s a good sign that it’s functioning as a genre (Miller, 1984). The weblog seems to have acquired this status very quickly ...

18. What skills should we teach?

19. Activities, tasks and digital resources

20. What about us! DIGITAL CHALLENGE: suffering it alone. DIGITAL CHALLENGE AS A LEARNING EXPERIENCE Getting help from mentors, creating Your own digital literacy action plan

23. Let's focus on the moon!

24. What about us! DIGITAL CHALLENGE: suffering it alone. DIGITAL CHALLENGE AS A LEARNING EXPERIENCE Getting help from mentors, creating Your own digital literacy action plan