This glossary contains all the unknown words that appears in some text and presentations related to the course of TICs.
Activity System
Noun
Group of people who share a common object and motive over time, as well as the wide range of tools they use together to act on that object and realize that motive.
Example: A community tends to share the same objectives of an activity system.
Affinity spaces
Noun
Place or set of places where people affiliate with others based primarily on shared interests.
Example: According to Gee (2004), "An affinity space is a place or set of places where people affiliate with others based primarily on shared activities, interests, etc.
AfL
Noun
Assessment for Learning
Authoring software
Noun
It is a web authoring package specifically designed to allow students to create web pages and websites.
en: It is beneficial for students the use of deferents programs such as, PowerPoint, Excel or different webs authorizing software.
Blog
Noun
A website used for uploading and sharing personal thoughts and ideas on different topics
Example: You can create a blog and write about any topic that you like on it.
CALL
Noun
Computer Assisted Language Learning
Example: The use of CALL in the classroom has increased.
CLT
Noun
Communicative Language Teaching
Example: CLT is one the most common methods and approaches used to teach another language.
Communicative Competence
Noun
Communicative competence refers to a learner's ability to use language to communicate successfully.
Example: Communicative competence are learner's ability needed to use language in order to communicate successfully.
Connectivism
Noun
A theoretical framework for understanding learning in a digital age. It emphasizes how internet technologies such as web browsers, search engines, wikis, online discussion forums, and social networks contributed to new avenues of learning.
Example: Nowadays, most of the schools use connectivism as one their teaching methods.
CoPs
Noun
Communities of Practice
Cyberbole
Noun
Is an exaggerated claim about the effect of information technology on an organization or society as a whole.
Example: It is impossible to avoid the cyberbole produced by the internet and new technologies of nowadays
Flaming
Adjective
Full of anger
Example: They usually have flaming arguments through Facebook and Instagram about the political news.
Hardware
Noun
The machine allows multitasking without the need to buy extra hardware.
Example: The machine allows multitasking without the need to buy extra hardware.
i+1
Noun
It is a theory which claims that language learners need to recieve input.
ICT
Noun
Information Communication Technology
Example: There are a lot of ICTs that helps to the creation of interactive activities and support the learning of the students.
Input
Noun
The language that students hear or read.
Example: Learners need to receive input at a slightly level than the output that they can produce.
Instant messaging
Noun
Messages that appear instantaneously to another's device
Example: Instant messaging has been increasing as a business communication tool.
Laptop
Noun
A small computer that can work with a battery and be easily carried.
Example: Online classes were difficult because all students did not have laptops during the pandemic situations
MALL
Noun
Mobile Assisted Language Learning
Example: Duolingo is one of the most famous MALL.
Mediational tool
Noun
Those devices that facilitate a person's relationship with the world.
en: Mediational tool helps learners to understand the target language in a better way.
Multimedia
Noun
The use of sound, pictures and film in addition to text on a screen.
Example: The use of numerics with text does not qualify as multimedia.
Rhizomatic knowledge
Noun
learning is a complex process of sense-making to which each learner brings their own context and has their own needs.
Scaffolding
Noun
It is a teaching method that involves gradually shedding the instructor's assistance as students increase their understanding.
Example: To teach something must consider to use scaffolding method to support the learner as they learned the new concept or skill.
Social networkings
Noun
A dedicated website or other application which enables users to communicate with each other by posting information, comments, messages, images, etc.
Example: Local arts groups provide opportunities for social networking which help to generate a real social togetherness.
Social-constructivism
Noun
Theory in which the learning is constructed first through social interaction and then on the individual plane.
Example: Social constructivism is a sociological theory of knowledge...
Socio-cultural theories
Noun
Theories which deal with society and culture
TACs
Noun
Tecnologías del Aprendizaje y del Conocimiento
Example: Nowadays, it is important to consider TACs in the learning process of the students.
TELL
Noun
Technology Enhanced Language Learning
Example: With TELL, educators are no longer limited to the textbooks that their institutions provide.
Text messaging
Noun
A message sent over a digital device, such as a cellphone
Example: We used to send text messaging all day through Facebook.
TICs
Noun
Tecnología de la Información y el Conocimiento
Example: It has been proved that the use of TICs improves the learning of students when they are used for pedagogical purposes.
ZPD
Noun
Zone of Proximal Development
Example: ZPD is the distance between what a learner is capable of doing unsupported, and what they can do supported.
