To start with, use of technology is is not a common thing in Turkey. Especially, when it comes to the foreign language teaching, the only technology being used is tape player, for the listening activities. Why do not Turkish teacher use websites like www.italki.com in order to make their students do practice? People in Turkey can barely speak English after they graduate from foreign languages department. This is weird. We are living in 21th centuary and still we use tape players, which is funny...
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Besides CTE 319, we do not use technology in our class so effectively. Projector, powerpoints and videos are common technologies we use in classes.
I think it is 50% our responsible to make sure our students develop digital literacy. Because, we are living in 21th century, we have to use technology in order to catch the world. However, it is students' responsibility to catch our teaching (with techology) and develop themselves.
I would have liked to get more of an idea about your rationale for making teachers at least partially responsible to teach digital literacy. I think it is impossible for teachers to keep up with the pace of change, but many of the underlying principles do not change that much. So, making students aware of these is important, and then it can be up to them to develop themselves.
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