A collective formation with a complex mediational structure that serves as the primary unit of analysis in cultural-historical activity.
Affinity spaces
Noun
It is a place where learning occurs. Is a place set of places where people affiliate with others based primarily on shared activities, interests, etc.
AFL (Assessment For Learning)
Noun
An approach to teaching and learning that creates feedback which is then used to improve student's performance.
Apprentices
Noun
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.
Apps
Noun
An application, especially as downloaded by a user to a mobile device.
Authoring software
Noun
Software that allows its users to create multimedia applications for manipulating multimedia objects.
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.
CALL (Computer Assisted Language Learning)
Noun
The search for and study of applications of the computer in language teaching and learning.
CLT (Communicate Language Teaching)
Noun
Is an approach that aims to achieve communicative rather than linguistic competence through learner interaction.
Communicative competence
Noun
A 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.
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.
Cyberbole
Noun
Exaggerated claims about what the internet and information technology will accomplish.
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.
Flaming
Noun
It is an impolite and insensitive message that is perceived as an insult.
Genre
Noun
Grammatical characteristics of nouns, articles, adjectives, participles, and pronouns that classify 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.
Hardware
Noun
The machines, wiring, and other physical components of a computer or other electronic system.
i+one
Noun
The environment in which the learning process takes place.
ICT (Information Communication Technology)
Noun
Technology that is used to handle communications processes such as telecommunications, broadcast media, intelligent systems, audiovisual processing and transmission systems, and network-based control and monitoring functions.
Inextricable
Adjective
Impossible to disentangle or separate.
Input
Noun
Help, ideas, or knowledge that someone gives to a project, organization, etc.
Instant messaging
Noun
A type of service available on the internet that allows you to exchange written messages with someone else who is using the service at the same time.
Laptop
Noun
A computer that is small enough to be carried around easily and is flat when closed.
Mainframe computer
Noun
A very large, powerful computer with a lot of memory that many people can use at the same time.
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.
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.
Multimedia
Noun
The use of a variety of artistic or communicative media.
Phonology
Noun
The study of speech sounds from a particular language.
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.
Rhizomatic knowledge
Noun
Is a variety of pedagogical practices informed by the work of Gilles Deleuze and Fénix 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.
Scaffolding
Noun
It is developed during the interaction in which a learner is guided in his learning process by his interlocutor.
Social constructivism
Noun
Is a social theory of knowledge according to which human development is socially situated and knowledge is constructed through interaction with others.
Social Media
Noun
Are websites and applications that enable users to create and share content or to participate in social networking.
Social Network
Noun
A website or computer program that allows people to communicate and share information on the internet using a computer or cell phone.
Socio-cultural theories
Noun
Learning occurs more effectively when people are working together, especially when the interaction is with a more skilled person.
Socio-digital competence
Noun
Capacity to understand what is pertinent to use in other social contexts and knowledge domains.
Supersede
Verb
Take the place of a person or thing previously in authority or use.
TACs
Noun
Tecnologías del aprendizaje y el conocimiento: digital resources orientated in teaching fomenting the learning in the teacher, who will learn and select the digital tools which are the more adequate for its use in the classroom.
TELL (Technology Enhanced Language Learning)
Noun
The use of computers as a technological innovation to display multimedia as a means of complementing a teaching method language teacher.
Text messaging
Noun
The activity of sending someone a text message by phone.
TICs
Noun
Tecnologias de información y comunicación: herramientas y programas informáticos que se utilizan para crear nuevas formas de comunicación en diferentes sectores.
Workload
Noun
The amount of work done by a particular person or machine in a period of time.
ZPD (Zone of Proximal Development)
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.