Brave New Digital Classroom

                          
What is language ‘learning’?

What does the ‘learning’ mean?

I think that ‘learning language’ is association through interaction with others.

I think that ‘learning’ is built by negotiation through communication.

Communicators make meaning through negotiation, and they make the ‘learning’ in their real world and in real life. Blake et al. extend the boundary of the ‘real’ life to technological space because digital tools are already composed of our ‘real’ life.

"People's interactions with computers, television, and new media are fundamentally social and natural, just like interactions in real life"(p. 3). 

Cyber space becomes one of the most popular and common communicational ground, so I agree with Blake’s thought.

“All language professionals need to become acquaint with the potential advantages of using technology in their programs. Without some general claims to success and media superiority, chairs, deans, and other decision-making bodies won’t understand or support new ways of teaching second languages with technology” (p.4).

However, we have to attend to the ‘real’ things that happen in our ‘real’ world right now. Our ‘real’ world is going to a certain direction, where “the web gives all peoples a channel to express their voice, promote their self-image, and legitimize their goals. This sense of authenticity provides endless topics for cross-cultural analysis and discussions in any content-driven classroom” (p.5).

 Blake, R. J.,  &  Chun, D. M.  (2008).  Brave New Digital Classroom: Technology and Foreign Language Learning.  Washington, D.C. :Georgetown University Press.