Improving writing skills through ICT

Improving writing skills through ICT

1. DIGITAL GAMING LITERACIES

   • Actually students are learning and involve in social mediums also in different games that this provide to them. With all this new technology, they can learn, practice and improve their english skills.
   • Allan Martin (2008) defined digital literacies as “the awareness, attitude and ability of individuals to appropriately use digital tools and facilities to identify, access, manage, integrate, evaluate, analyze and synthesize digital resources, construct new knowledge, create media expressions, and communicate with others” (pp. 166–167
   • Henry Jenkins (2009) found that “these skills build on the foundation of traditional literacy, research skills, technical skills, and critical analysis skills taught in the classroom”

2. MICROBLOGS

   • This are for students of middle school, with this tool they can practice their writing in a interesting way beause they will write of topics that they like.
   • With this the students can increase their vocabulary and improve their writing, as a teachers in our classrooms can use this to share stories and experiences that the students have and identify their writing improvement.
   • Mills and Chandra (2011) “observing that students wrote about a topic more frequently over a more extended period of time when using microblogging, leading to a deeper cognitive engagement . . .” (p. 37).

3. MOBILE

   • Mobile learning is easiest for students because the adquisition of knowledge can be anywhere at the time they want.
   • One of the most important thing of mobile learning are that students can use any technology tool as a video, music, a movie or just a picture; which are media to show contents and are considered useful to facilitate learning English as a foreign language (McCarthy, 2005)
   • In Korea provides an excellent environment for the use of mobile-smartphones or tablets with access to internet. The students can be for the beginner to an intermediate writing level.
     • The second way is choose a Korean sentence and they have to write it in english and will have feedback.
     • One of the way to learn is: the student or learner choose one of the grammatical categories and complete the activities and questions.
   • "Contents used in mobile learning must be short and light so they allow for feedback and periodical revision due to the mobility implied (Looi, et al., 2010 )

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