Papers to be presented at FAAPI 2010
Posted by Mariel Amez on September 19, 2010
A Room of One’s Own will offer two papers at 7 pm, Thursday 23rd, Room 4, Facultad de Lenguas:
Evaluating and E-valuating in the College Literature Class: A many-sided task (María Susana Ibáñez and Raquel Lothringer)
That teaching involves evaluating is undeniable, and that this task is often confined to final exams to decide if students can complete a course is common practice. In this light, evaluation is deprived of crucial functions and carried out exclusively by teachers. In this presentation we explore the issue in a wider perspective, focus on evaluation in the college Literature class and propose instruments to be used in face-to-face interaction and in online learning environments.
María Susana Ibáñez received a degree in English from Universidad Nacional del Litoral, and an M. A. degree from Universidad de Córdoba, where she is a doctoral candidate. She teaches Literature at I.S.P. “Alte. Brown” (Teacher training and Translation Programmes) and Literary Theory at UNL (Licenciatura en Inglés).
Raquel Lothringer, teacher of English and of Literature from Instituto del Profesorado (Paraná) where she taught English Literature and former Head of the Modern Languages Department (Facultad de Ciencias de la Educación-UNER), is currently an on-line tutor at Licenciatura en Inglés (UNL) and at Área de Educación a Distancia (UNER).
From learner to prosumer: interactions between art and literature from a connectivist perspective (Mariel Amez)
Nowadays, there is widespread agreement in our country that ICTs need to play a key role in education, but it remains to be seen whether they will be effective in improving the quality of learning. This presentation reviews recommendations for teacher education in this field, and examines the potential of SNSs (social network sites) to meet such requirements. It draws on the implementation of a SNS in Literature classes to illustrate how this environment can contribute to the creation of content which moves beyond the purely textual, to the construction of collective knowledge, and to student empowerment in general.
Mariel Amez is a Teacher of English (INSP Rosario and UNR). She is currently a lecturer in English Literature at IES “O. Cossettini” and ISPI “San Bartolomé” (Rosario), a Cambridge ESOL Oral Examiner and a member of the APrIR Committee. She has published articles and given presentations on literature, language teaching and teacher education.
See details of the panel to be offered in this other post, and check out the complete schedule at the Conference site.
