El conocimiento tecnomediado por los estudiantes como oportunidades de aprendizaje del inglés

Abstract

In the education field, technology has been reduced to the use of hardware to fulfill certain instrumental tasks. However, children today use technology in complex ways in and outside the classrooms. This qualitative research case study is being conducted with 10 fifth-graders and aims to understand how students' technomediated knowledge helps them to foster their English language learning. Technomediated knowledge has been defined by Rueda (2008) as the use and appropriation of technology in order to share and produce knowledge. Data was collected through a survey, students' artifacts, and semi-structured interviews. The findings show that participants' current and most used technomediated knowledge source is the YouTube network, which is linked to other sources such as online video games and video and photo applications. Besides, students use their technomediated knowledge to design and present their English activities; data also shows that students share these tools and learn together, as a community of learners, in and outside the classroom.