By Lilia Rosa Hidalgo Ballina

Today we live in a world of dramatic culture, economic, social and educational. ICT is being use by million of person and is skyrocketing. The media culture is saturated by economy, politics, culture and education. The media culture has a potential to achieve of institutionalize forms of education. About ICT there is a debate and how is begin use because they are seen easy victims of pervasive and powerful media. There is an extreme view of broke family, teenager getting pregnant, child trafficking and prostitution on the web. Many parents do not have connection on their children’s education. School has transformed the way of teaching providing students with skills of survive and thrive in the media culture. Another problem of ICT is television encase it present material disturbing children and making them passive.  There is also another panic of the media, which is the use of new devices or the adoption of new cultural forms. The optimistic view of ICT is that Children are being benefits with this use. Student now day know more about ICT then their parents and teacher need to be capacity in this area. Student should have a limits and advice by adults because they are unable to manager their lives. ICT has opened the world geographical and social. Together with the Media culture it provides engagement and resistance in the global economy. There is advantage of using ICT in learning. Many teacher use ICT for learning and it has positive impacts on students. I think something great about this is that you can learn anywhere and anytime. It provides us information when we want and it is of a lot of help. For example, I usually have questions about things and with the help of a mobile phone and internet I can research for the answer. It is easier to download a PDF document then going to a library for searching for information. Student think that ICT plays a role on education learning but there are also some disadvantages. For example, many students are more familiar with ICT then their parents. That means that they learn fasten then their parents. This also brings a problem when talking student with teacher because students are more familiar in the use.  The teacher need to be updating the content of courses and it makes learning for students slower.  When wanting to update there is also a cost hardware and software expensive. Another disadvantage about ICT is that there is a reducing on communication with the students and staff has to take their time preparing this class. I also see the developing in the learning that you can send document and complete learning tasks. It offer us many things like reading text, sending text messages and learning things from all over the world. ICT is changing many things about culture for example, the way of learning is not the same because young people are learning faster about thing then they were use in there parents ages.  CALL is Computer Assisted Language Learning and it has change many things. It has become widespread and language teacher have to think of the implications of computers for language learning. CALL has developed over the last 30 years and its categorized phases of three which refers to as behavioristic CALL, communicative CALL, and integrative CALL. The first Phase it was call behavioristic and it was implemented in the 1960s and 70s. This phase was based on the then-dominant behaviorist theories of learning and it was referred as “drill and practice”. The course case was base on a model that was computer as tutor by Taylor in the 1980. Based on some notions, there where a tutoring systems developed for the mainframe computer that were used at the time. One of them was PLATO system and it rans its hardware. The second phase was communicative CALL and it prominent in the 1970s and 80s. It was base on the communicative approach to teaching and one of the main advocates was John Underwood. Something about CALL was the development of two important technology and they were the multimedia computers and the Internet. Today Multimedia exemplified by the CD-ROM and it allows doing variety of media by a machine. The multimedia is powerful because of entails hypermedia and that means the multimedia are all liked together. That means that learners can navigate by a mouse, pointing and clicking. The internet it provides us many things and it has only became wide-spread in the last few years. With internet we can communicate directly with learner or speakers by doing at anytime and anywhere. We can do it by sending an email and using program that allow us to have a conversation by typing at a keyboard. Internet allows to do many things it has it bad side and its good side but I think it is of a great help having ICT and CALL for education and for ordinary living.

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