Foreign Language 2.0: How technology has altered the ways we teach and learn language, literature and culture

Participants:

• Brooke Donaldson, “Teaching the I-Phone / Facebook Generation: Sacrifice or Enhancement?”
• Jeremy Larochelle, “Weekly response papers are so Twentieth Century: Latin American Literature and Cultural Studies meets UMW Blogs”.
• Elizabeth Lewis, “Energizing, Inspiring, and Relevant Spanish Literature Studies? My Experimentation with an Undergraduate Course on the 19th-Century Novel”
• Marcel Rotter, “Student-centered learning in upper-level language courses: authentic news and wikis as textbook 2.0”

This panel discussion seeks to explore the various ways technology has altered the teaching of foreign languages, cultures and literatures. From the use of internet resources and interactive power point presentations, to the use of social networking, wikis and course blogs, technology has enabled language students to access information, practice new skills, and interact with the target languages and cultures like never before. But is this necessarily better? What might the limits or pitfalls of such teaching and learning be?