The purpose of this postgraduate course is for students to acquire the necessary theoretical knowledge and practical training in order to critically understand and adopt modern language teaching approaches in connection with Digital Media and, more generally, Information and Communication Technologies (ICT).
In particular, students are expected to:
- Critically review international research in the field of language teaching through Digital Media and understand its reframing within the Greek educational context.
- Connect the introduction and application of Digital Media in language courses with broader issues such as the new economic reality of globalization, the knowledge society, the new literacies that education must cultivate, and the emerging skills required in modern workplaces.
- Understand and interpret the systemic requirements and particularities involved in the use of Digital Media in the teaching process, especially in language education.
- Comprehend the broader relationship between Digital Media and the new forms of literacy that prevail in society, which are essential to permeate curricula, language knowledge, and teaching practices.
- Develop the necessary strategies for the effective and creative use of Digital Media in language and, more generally, humanities education.
- Gain awareness of the importance and potential of available digital resources, online environments, and artificial intelligence, and how these can be creatively utilized in teaching language and humanities courses.
- Critically “read” and evaluate the main paradigmatic categories of educational environments, linking them to the broader historical, political, and educational contexts that drive their development and ongoing transformation.
- Familiarize themselves with essential elements of instructional design and the creation of educational activities and micro-teaching scenarios in language and humanities subjects, effectively organizing learning environments guided by the pedagogical use of Digital Media within contemporary approaches to teaching and learning.
General Competences
- Search, analysis, and synthesis of data and information using the necessary technologies.
- Independent work.
- Teamwork.
- Work in an interdisciplinary environment.
- Practice of reflection, critique, and self-critique.
COURSE CONTENT
- The multifaceted nature of digital technologies and their impact on the new textual reality.
- International research in language teaching with digital technologies.
2.1. The reflections of international research in language teaching with digital technologies in the Greek educational context.
- Models of using digital technologies in language teaching.
3.1. Classifications and categories of digital technologies and environments in language teaching.
- Choices in language education with digital technologies: Discourses, knowledge, literacies, teaching practices, identities.
4.1. Digital technologies as working environments, as tools of practical and critical literacy.
- Web 2.0, interactive systems, repositories of learning objects, collaborative platforms and writing environments, MOOCs, and online communities.
5.1. Applications using Web 2.0 technologies, repositories of learning objects, collaborative platforms and writing environments, MOOCs, and online communities.
- Instructional design in language teaching with digital technologies: Language production through learning events – Literate identities.
6.1. Examples of activity design and micro-teaching scenarios in language teaching with digital technologies.
- Evaluation of activities and micro-teaching scenarios in language teaching with digital technologies: Critical Discourse Analysis.
7.1. Applications in the evaluation of activities and micro-teaching scenarios in language teaching with digital technologies.