A collective formation with a complex mediational structure that serves as the primary unit of analysis in cultural-historical activity theory.
es: Sistema de actividad.
Affinity spaces
Noun
It is a place where learning occurs. Is a place or set of places where people affiliate with others based primarily on shared activities, interests, etc.
es: Espacios de afinidad.
Apprentices
Pronoun
Someone who has agreed to work for a skilled person for a particular period of time and often for low payment, in order to learn that person's skills
es: Aprendices
Apps
Noun
An application, especially as downloaded by a user to a mobile device.
es: Aplicaciones.
Assessment for Learning (AFL)
Noun
An approach to teaching and learning that creates feedback which is then used to improve students' performance.
es: Evaluación para el aprendizaje
Authoring software
Noun
Software that allows its user to create multimedia applications for manipulating multimedia objects.
es: Software de autor
Blog
Noun
A regularly updated website or web page, typically one run by an individual or small group, that is written in an informal or conversational style.
es: Blog
Communicate Language Teaching (CLT)
Noun
Is an approach that aims to achieve communicative rather than linguistic competence through learner interaction.
es: Comunicando la enseñanza de idiomas
Communicative competence
Noun
Person's ability to communicate information and ideas in a language.
Communities of practice
Noun
Is a group of people who share a common concern, a set of problems, or an interest in a topic and who come together to fulfill both individual and group goals.
es: Comunidades de Practica
Connectivism
Noun
Is a theoretical framework for understanding learning in a digital age.
Consoles
Noun
A panel on which are dials and switches for controlling an electronic or mechanical device.
es: Consolas
Cyberbole
Noun
Exaggerated claims about what the internet and information technology will accomplish.
es: Ciberbole
Device
Noun
An object made or adapted for a particular purpose, especially a piece of mechanical or electronic equipment.
Digital gap
Noun
New forms of social inequality derived from the unequal access to the new information communications technologies, by gender, territory, social class, and so forth.
es: Brecha digital
Flaming
Noun
It is an impolite and insensitive message that is perceived as an insult.
Genre
Noun
Grammatical characteristic of nouns, articles, adjectives, participles, and pronouns that classifies them into two groups: masculine and feminine, and several particles are gender-neutral.
Grammar-translation
Noun
A traditional technique of foreign-language teaching based on explicit instruction in the grammatical analysis of the target language and translation of sentences from the native language into the target language and vice versa.
es: Traducción gramática
Hardware
Noun
The machines, wiring, and other physical components of a computer or other electronic system.
i+1
Noun
Environment in which the learning takes place.
ICT
Noun
Is technology that is used to handle communications processes such as telecommunications, broadcast media, intelligent building management systems, audiovisual processing and transmission systems, and network-based control and monitoring functions.
es: TIC.
Inextricable
Adjective
Impossible to disentangle or separate.
es: Inextricable
Input
Noun
A place where, or a device through which, energy or information enters a system.
Instant messaging
Noun
Form of text-based communication in which two (or more) persons participate in a single conversation over their computers or mobile devices within an Internet-based chatroom.
es: Mensaje instantaneo
Laptop
Noun
A computer that is small enough to be carried around easily and is designed for use outside an office.
es: Computador portatil
Mainframe computer
Noun
A very large, powerful computer with a lot of memory that many people can use at the same time.
es: Computadora central
Mediational tool
Noun
A term coined by Vygotsky suggested that the primary tools of activities, represented in signs and symbols, acted as agents for, and subsequently provided a definition for, culture, and served as intervening links to consciousness.
es: Herramienta de mediación
More able peer
Adjective
Those young people who are achieving, or have the potential to achieve, at a level significantly beyond that of their peer group within a specific area of the curriculum.
es: Compañero mas capaz
Multimedia
Noun
The use of a variety of artistic or communicative media.
Privacy settings
Noun
Is the part of a social networking website, internet browser, piece of software, etc. that allows you to control who sees information about you.
es: Configuración de privacidad
Rhizomatic Knowledge
Noun
Is a variety of pedagogical practices informed by the work of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. Explored initially as an application of post-structural thought to education, it has more recently been identified as a methodology for net-enabled education.
es: Conocimiento rizomático
Scaffolding
Verb
It is developed during the interaction in which a learner is guided in his learning by his interlocutor.
es: Andamio
Social constructivism
Noun
Is a sociological theory of knowledge according to which human development is socially situated and knowledge is constructed through interaction with others.
es: Constructo social
Social media
Noun
Are websites and applications that enable users to create and share content or to participate in social networking.
es: Medios de comunicación
Social network
Noun
A dedicated website or other application which enables users to communicate with each other by posting information, comments, messages, images, etc.
es: Red social
Socio-cultural theories
Noun
Suggest that human learning is largely a social process, with our cognitive functions being formed based on our interactions with those around us who are "more skilled".
es: Teoría sociocultural
Socio-digital competence
Noun
Capacity to understand what is pertinent to use in other social contexts and knowledge domains.
es: Competencia sociodigital
Supersede
Verb
Take the place of (a person or thing previously in authority or use)
es: Reemplazar
Text messaging
Verb
Is the act of composing and sending electronic messages, typically consisting of alphabetic and numeric characters, between two or more users of mobile devices, desktops/laptops, or another type of compatible computer.
es: Mensaje de texto
Workload
Noun
The amount of work to be done, especially by a particular person or machine in a period of time.
es: Carga de trabajo
Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD)
Noun
Refers to the difference between what a learner can do without help and what he or she can achieve with guidance and encouragement from a skilled partner.
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