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Technologies are always changing; day by day they are improving with more advanced tools and software. Technology involves effective communication which is an important tool to face the challenges for technological changes, people who are always sharing with others and exploring what technology offers, are up-to-date because they have the possibility to know what is new and how to deal with that, with is the product of effective communication.
Nowadays technology became an essential tool for high level education, for the school and also for the industry (enterprises) given that being trained for using emergent technologies is a matter of being part of the competent world, and people who are engaged with technology are supposed to be able to face challenges of the new networked world due to the fact that they are exposed to more information about the world.
Talking about the internet, and taking into account that it is a competitive totally different environment is necessary to establish a few rules among people who use it to develop learning environments because in that way it can be useful for learners and also for teachers to face the “emergent” characteristic of the internet; after establishing those rules of participations, it is possible to apply emergent technologies such as messaging, gaming, peer-to-peer sharing as a language learning strategy for catching learners' interests of the millennial generation.
References:
BECTA, (2008). Emerging technologies for learning. Retrieved June 4, 2010 from
http://partners.becta.org.uk/upload-dir/downloads/page_documents/research/emerging_technologies08-2.pdf
Prensky, M. (2008). The role of technology. Retrieved June 4, 2010 from
http://www.marcprensky.com/writing/Prensky-The_Role_of_Technology-ET-11-12-08.pdf
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