Brave New Digital Classroom is a practical, useful and seemingly modest introduction to the use of computer technology in the foreign language classroom. In every chapter we are reminded that technology is not a panacea in itself. It urgently needs the teacher to harness it properly if it is to help learners become bilingual.
Robert J. Blake is director of the UC Consortium for Language Learning and Teaching, professor of Spanish and classics, and chair, Designated Emphasis in Second Language Acquisition, at the University of California, Davis.
No education collection should be without this guide on how to proceed.
A cohesive, updated overview of how technology can be effectively used in second and foreign language teaching and learning. This book serves as a useful handbook for a wide audience including all language teachers.
Blake succeeds in painting the possibilities of technology integration for those contemplating its use in the classroom. The book is suitable for multiple audiences, including the methods courses, in which it could serve as a springboard for further discussion of appropriate and meaningful use of technology in language learning.