Unit 1

Unit 1

1. Mobile learning refers to the acquisition of knowledge through mobile devices. This means that learning takes place anywhere and any time.

   • Its implementation apparently serves not as a new way to learn languages but rather as a complement to specific learning activities in the educative context
     • One of the options for mobile learning includes “Podcasts” (audio or video files transmitted through Internet) which are media to show contents and are considered useful to facilitate learning English as a foreign language
       • The written production of the participant was analyzed in relation to linguistic patterns and genre characteristics presented before and after checking the podcasts.

2. As the field of technology continues to grow, students are immersed with technology each day, thus, digital literacy has become a major component of school curriculums.

   • Many of today’s adolescents are constantly engaging with information through texting, watching videos, listening to music, and even writing papers (Adams, 2013).
     • Microblogging ties hand-in-hand with social networking because of the nature of writing and communication modalities with these web-based tools. Messages or microblogging serve as a major component of social networks such as Edmodo, an educational, social media site that employs microblogging.

3. Engagement, problem solving, and collaboration are three aspects that are important in composition as well as in gaming

   • In composition,students must read a text analyzing multiple literary devices;similarly in gaming, they evaluate visual and textual cues that will help them navigate the game in order to complete it
   • In composition, we want our students to have the same enthusiasm for playing these games as they do for our assignments, but allocate more time to their writing.
   • More specifically, the goal of the study sought to explore students’ use of an interactive technology tool to develop their self-assurance in formal writing

4. Students are continually interacting with visual and written rhetoric through their gaming and online experiences; as a result,

5. Gaming has a place in composition because it utilizes the same skills we teach our students when they engage with writing as well asrelating to ourstudents’ digital literacies.

6. How does an adolescent writing procedure and experience expand or change when writing using microblogging?