ICT, Globalization & ELT

ICT: A Way to Understand Globalization

Derya Erice, PhD

This is a story about four students named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody.

There was an important job to be done and Everybody was asked to do it. Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it.

Somebody got angry, because it was Everybody's job. Everybody thought Anybody could do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn’t do it.

It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anyone could have."

Jared Diamond, 2005Collapse: How societies choose to fail or succeed

Sustainable Development (SD)

"meets the needs of the present without

compromising the ability of future generations

to meet their own needs”

Brundtland Commission, 1987

Education for Sustainable Development

• ‘helps people to develop the attitudes, skills and knowledge necessary to make informed decisions for the benefit of themselves and others, now and in the future, and to act upon these decisions.’

“What are your 3 favorite tools for your language learning/teaching?”

Web browsers and extensions Firefox I Internet Explorer | Flock | Safari | Zotero | Firebug | ScribeFire

RSS readers Google Reader I Bloglines | FeedRaider | NetNewsWire

Online conferencing Elluminate I WiziQ I Flashmeeting I Alado

Social bookmarking tools del.icio.us diigo | Furl

Social networks Facebook LinkedIn | Eduspaces | twitter | Explode

Instant messengers Skype | Google Talk | MSN/ Windows Messenger | iChat |

Meebo | Pidgin

(Re)search tools Google Search Wikipedia | Google Scholar | Technorati | Amazon | Dogpile |

Quintura

Document, Spreadsheet

(& Database) Tools

Word Google Docs & Spreadsheets | Excel | OpenOffice | Zoho | Access |

EndNote

Presentation tools PowerPoint Slideshare | OpenOffice | Zoho | Keynote

Narrated

presentation tools

Articulate Presenter Adobe Presenter | Slideshare | PhotoStory |

VoiceThread

Blogging tools Wordpress I Blogger | TypePad | Edublogs | MovableType |b2evolution |

ScribeFire | ecto | Firebug FeedBlitz | CoComment | MyBlogLog | StatCounter

Wiki tools Wikispaces MediaWiki | PB Works Wiki | Tiddlywiki | Jotspot |

Confluence

Mindmapping tools MindManager FreeMind| Cmap | Inspiration | Bubbl.us |

MindMeister

Graphics, image

and photo editing

tools

GIMP Photoshop | Fireworks | Picasa | Gliffy |

OmniGraffle | Paint Shop Pro |

Video 1: What is globalization?Video 2: Globalization and ICT

The pros of Globalization:• worldwide market : more access to products of different countries.• steady cash flow into the developing countries. • increase in the production sector : options for the companies.• world power instead of compartmentalized power sectors. • more influx of information between two countries.• cultural intermingling and each other is trying to know about the

other’s cultural preferences.• sharing financial interests: corporate and governments are trying to

sort out ecological problems for each other.• socially more open and tolerant towards each other.• a lot of technological development.

There are cons:• Europeans are losing jobs and companies are outsourcing work to

the Asian countries since the cost of labor is low and profits the company considerably.

• immense pressure on the employed Europeans who are always under the threat of the business being outsourced.

• Corporates are building up units in other countries transferring the quality to other countries.

• leading to the incursion of negatives like communicable diseases and social degeneration.

• a threat of corporates ruling the world because there is a lot of power, which is invested in them due to globalization.

http://www.buzzle.com/articles/pros-and-cons-of-globalization.html

Globalization

Are you optimistic or pessimistic about the future of the human race and our planet?

Do you believe that we as second language teachers can have any impact on what is going on in the world, orshould we concentrate solely on improving our students' language proficiency?

Globalization= Bringing bad news into class?

http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/1673870/globalization

1. Can we teach language at the same time we teach global issues?

2. How can we get enough knowledge about global issues to include them in our teaching?

3. How can we get materials for global education?

Peace Education

Themes for peace education:

- international conflicts,

- international cooperation,

- other countries and cultures,

- cross-cultural communication,

- types and roots of violence,

Peace Education and ELTTeaching methods suited to peace education: •projects, •role plays and simulations, •cooperative learning

Environment Education and ELT

• ELT coursebooks : environmental education themes, such as endangered species, waste minimization, and deforestation.

• UN's sixth environmental education objective, participation, lacks.

ELT activities writing letters to governments, organizations, and companies; growing trees and other plants; reducing use of paper, energy, and containers; reusing materials such as glass jars; recycling materials and buying recycled materials, such as

recycled paper; educating others and taking part in campaigns to persuade

others to participate in environmentally friendly actions; raising funds for environmental causes; and boycotting

environmentally unfriendly products, such as those made from endangered species, and instead buying environmentally friendly products, e.g., refrigerators that do not use ozone-depleting chemicals.

• a free social networking & microblogging service• Tweets• 140 characters • followers

Twitter Contributes to Globalization

• A real-time communication network • In Iran, protesters used the social-networking tool

Twitter to communicate with the outside world when journalists’ access was restricted.

• Tweeters reported the events. • Power of a new type of CNN – a Citizen News

Network.

The tragedy of Neda, the young Iranian woman whose death by gunshot during a peaceful protest posted on YouTube.

The #Neda tag in Twitter stays among the top trending topics: a symbolic vehicle for ordinary people to express their political passions.

“Absolutely horrifying,” goes one Twitter message. Another states: “In Memory of Neda. You did not die in

vain.”

Power of the web and of the people;

web power is people power.

Another case

• Online protests about the “Green Dam” software in China.

• Power of the Internet!

Sample ICT task Create a poster in pairs using http://edu.glogster.

com/ On one of these topics:

"If something needs doing, then do something

about it. Don't just hope that someone else

will. What is everyone's business also has to

be someone's business".

Edward de Bono (1998, p. 8),

References • http://cordis.europa.eu/ictresults/index.cfm?section=news&tpl=article&BrowsingType=

Features&ID=61643• http://computingforsustainability.wordpress.com/2009/03/15/visualising-sustainability/ • http://www.iisd.org/• http://www.smtusa.com/blog/posts/twitter-contributes-to-globalization.html• http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/coping-with-digital-revolution• Jacobs, G. M., & Cates, K. (1999). Global education in second language teaching. KATA, 1(1),

44-56.• Hart, J. (2007)Top 100 Tools for Learning: Summary Information. Jane Centre for Learning &

Performance Technologies. Available at www.C4LPT.co.uk• Mulvihill, D. & Wiesmann-Hirchert, M. (2007) CALL: Promoting Creative / Critical Thinking

and Facilitating Skills Integration. Seminar handout.

Images • http://www.cartoonstock.com/• http://images.google.com/• http://www.flickr.com/search/?ss=2&w=all&q=globalization&m=text

ThanksDerya Erice, PhDAbant İzzet Baysal UniversityEnglish Language Teaching ProgramBolu, Turkeyderyaerice@gmail.com