Instructional Technology to learn.

HOW TO USE TECHNOLOGY TO PROVIDE FEEDBACK It was interesting to read about that article becuase in the technology class we have the opportunity to appreciate this kind of feedback. In this situation, the article talk about the use of technology to provide feedbaack. I was remembering the situations in which i received feedback in this way.  Through technology many teachers can give feedback to students for differet homework assigments. Also, many students have the opportunity to send the documents to the teachers via email; for example, documents in word, power point presentations, videos, etc. Besides, provide feedback to students is useful because the teachers have the chance to correct many student in short period of time; also, if the students have difficulties to listening is way they can improve it when the teachers send them the video with the feedback. In my case, I like this kind of feedback because one of my teachers provided us feedback in this way, and i ca...

The Benefits of Getting Students to participe in Classroom Think - Pair - Share The article talk about 10 benefits that result useful for the students and the teachers . I think that all these strategies are interesting to us as future teachers, and i consider that if the teachers are able to make friendly and motivated students in classroom. All of the strategies i read that the teacher has an important role because the teachers have to be an iniciative to do the things. For example: teachers give fedback, students feedback,etc. Besides, teachers have the chance to control the classroom, motivate students to talk, teachers promote confident to their students to develop skills. I liked that article beacuse we can see the job of the teachers in the classroom, the effort that they do. On the other hand, the other article about think, pair, share talk about how students have to be.  Think: students have to think, for example in a questions to create or iniciate a conv...

Twenty Ideas for Using Mobile Phones in Language Classroom. In some years ago, mobile phones have used for many things such as sending messages, take photos, post thing on facebook, twitter, etc. Nowadays people have more access to buy a phone; also, we can see students with phones. For that reason, that article showed twenty ideas to involve the phones in class, an interesting  and good idea. The ideas that I liked are these: use the mobile phone to keep a blog, use mobile phone memory to distribute listening and reading materials, use phones for social networking, use the voice memo recorder feature to record conversations outside the classroom, and some others.  I think that all of these ideas can be useful if the teachers have an objective in the class or a purpose to use the mobile phones. Besides, the students have to understand that the mobile phones are not to waste time in the moment of the class. For that reason, teachers that want to apply this method i...

Online Collaborative Writing Using Wikis. All the things that I was reading about the topic were interesting. First, because the students have the opportunity to work in wikis. Wikis are a tools that we can edit, create and share information through it. Also, I think that the students can find many things in that wikis to do the homework, and the article present an example of it. Teachers and studetns can participe. In addition, one of the advantages to work in groups in the classroom is the studetns can share their ideas, opinions, and expiences. The students can create a project, choose a topic, and they can start to work in it. The students have the chance to participe sharing the information they found, they have the possibility to communicate after class, and in that way they build the project day per day. Besides, I think that the teacher have an important role in these cases. Teachers have to do the correct intructions to students develop the project in good way; ...

Reading Comprehension and Vocabulary Online Dictionaries for Learners The article mentioned some ideas that sound interesting, but I think and I agree that reading comprehension and vocabulary have relationship; for example, a students can read a book and they can uderstand it, but some words can be weird or new for them. For that reason, I think that students acquire vocabulary through the readers. In addition, including the technology students find some books online in which they can discover new vocabulary to learn.  Moreover, I liked the first teaching principles because as a future teachers showed us that we can fin many tools online to teach vocabulary and reading too; for that reason, the article showed the computerized reading and the non-computerized reading.  On the other hand, the article about Online dictionaries talked about two different dicitionaries that are general-use and English-Learner dictionary. Most of the time I think that we as a student...

USING INTERNET-BASED.  READING AND WRITING One of the two articles mentioned some ideas that are interesting for me. For example, I think that when a EFL students have to read books, it is difficult to understand some words, and I agree with that method because it can be better for the students to grow or improve their vocabulary. Also, teachers have to use or create methods to the students can learn more reading books; for example, teachers are allowed students to use dictionary in classroom, teachers can give homework to students because they can learn more in home too, and students can find readings with ilustrations in web sites that can be interesting for them.  In addition, teachers and future teachers can create their own books according to the student level that they are teaching. Also, teachers can use more time in class to improve the reading skill in students through reading quiz. I think that teachers have to know the level of the book to each classroom....

      The article mentioned about many links of websites that teachers can use in a classroom. Also, the article do not show only the links; besides, it shows some information about CALL that help Language Learning, For example, the computers, technology , and the internet are so important in any classroom, but something that is really bad about technology and schools is this country does not have the access to internter in many schools.  On the other hand, i think that we can find websites on internet about the listening skill, and the teachers can use that excercises in the classrooms. Also, some websites are really interesting because provide videos, audios, and some taks that teachers can prepare to their studetns; for example, teacher can find task in websites which have many excercises acoording to the level of the students. In addition, teacher can provide students some links in which they can find stories to create or record their own. But as i said at t...

I think that all the students need to have this characteristic "critical thinking". Because as the article mentioned the students have an  intrinsict way to be curiosity, but the teachers and we as a future teachers, we have to push students to open their minds. Also, teachers have to make big questions or questions that are interesting because in that way the students want to think and share the things.  Another way or method to make students think more is teaching abstract things. When a teacher teachs a subject is important that he cover all the information because if the teacher teachs history or biology, the students want to know more and share that they have in their mind. The students can create the abiliti to analyze the different situations and, they can find the solutions or the evidence about they think, but i think that the teachers have more opportunities to teach better if they use the technology and the students can understand better.  If we use or...

Blending, Integrating , and PODCASTS Something that Iliked of the article was the prase "Learning to Listen" and "Listening to Learn". In that article mention the important use of podcasts in classroom , and that I culd understand is the Listening skill can be teach it with Podcasts if the teacher wants the students develop their skill to think, analyze, and learn to listen the native speakers clearly. Besides, the Podcasts can be used by the teachers with the same collegues to share knowledge, ideas, and some websites that they can use in the class such as experiences.  On the other hand, I consider that its important to know that the article said about the integrating. Its necessary to know that exist some aspects that influences the integrating cannot be possible in a classroom for the students. For example, the schools do not provided a sufficent time to the teachers teach in classroom, so this problem make students do not work with the Podcasts; Also, ...

CALL and the Teacher´s Role. This article mention that Jeremy Jones wants to probes that computer-assisted language learning and autonomy are focusing in the role of the teacher to make and effective learning in students. However, i think that if the computer-assisted language learning is based in the technology, the role of the teachers if not relevant in the class or in the virtual class. Besides, the CALL programs are focusing on students can show their learning through that, but the teachers as guide in the classroom need to know how to make a successful class with CALL even the students are the most important. Also, i think that as future teachers we need to know about that because is a essential thing to make students can develop some skills that they have. For example, the CALL programs offer students can improve writing skill if the practice; also, they can find online references, dictionaries, and consult grammar-check. It is a interesting way to work with technology be...

      COMPUTERS AND LANGUAGE LEARNING. Mark Warchauer and Deborah Healy   mentioned that many years ago the computers were a weird object in education. Some teachers nowadays use a computer because is an important instrument in all the classroom. It is interested because the article is divides in four parts.  On the other hand, the history showed some approaches in which the technology was grown, but in different ways; for example, I think that the communicative CALL is better because is a cognitive theory, and I consider that behaviorist give less opportunities than communicative CALL because the students are involve and they can work with the computers. Besides, the communicative CALL allows students to learn through a class in which the content-based, project based, and task-based; Also, teachers can develop a class with that kind of method. Other thing that I consider help teachers is that some software provided programs in which we ha...