techi or newbie?

New literacy, new media ,new challenges:
Foreign Languages is skill-based as well as knowledge-based.
With regard to pedagogy and methodology, a “shift of paradigm” is necessary in teacher / learner roles.
New media become increasingly integrated into everyday life. Improved pedagogy which will facilitate “blended” learning to become increasingly time and place independent.
Impact on learners:
• Pupils, teachers and parents consider that ICT has a positive impact on pupils’ learning.
• Pupils’ subject-related performance and basic skills (calculation, reading and writing) improve with ICT, according to teachers.
• Teachers are becoming more and more convinced that the educational achievements of pupils improve through the use of ICT.
• Academically strong students benefit more from ICT use, but ICT serves also weak students.
Motivation:
• Pupils are more motivated and attentive when computers and the Internet are used in class. Multimedia and interactive content is engaging and motivating and students pay more attention during lessons.
• ICT has a strong motivational effect and positive effects on behaviour, communication and process skills.
• Collaboration between students is greater when they use ICT for project work. Teachers consider that pupils work more in cohesion with their own learning styles, resulting in a favourable impact on both academically strong and weak students.
Independent learning:
• Pupils state that they do assignments more their own way when using a computer and their parents consider that they solve assignments more at their own level.
• Teachers consider that pupils work more in cohesion with their own learning styles, resulting in a favourable impact on both academically strong and weak students.
• Pupils with special needs or behavioural difficulties gain in different ways from the use of ICT.
• ICT use at schools can help to minimise the social divide by reducing the digital divide.
• Students assume greater responsibility for their own learning when they use ICT, working more independently and effectively.
• ICT offers learners assignments better suited to individual needs and makes it easier to organize their own learning.
Impact on teaching:
• Increased enthusiasm
• Increased efficiency and collaboration
• Specific ICT uses
Barriers:
• Teacher-level barriers: Teachers’ poor ICT competence, low motivation and lack of confidence in using new technologies in teaching are significant determinants of their levels of engagement in ICT.
• School level barriers: Limited access to ICT (due to a lack or poor organisation of ICT resources), poor quality and inadequate maintenance of hardware as well as
unsuitable educational software are also defining elements in teachers’ levels of ICT use.