CRITICAL THINKING AND TECHNOLOGY

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this article was so good because we center in how students learn, and how important it is.
this is very important because i was thinking the technology isnt in the main ideas in the learning process but with this article i can see technology is essential in our lifes as a teachers. it doesnt matter if we work in a school were we dont have acces to internet or something technologicall because we perfectly adapted to the resources that schools give us. I mean, we can carry on with our owns method to teach in a techonological way for example carry on with our own computer, speakers, also if we have enought money we can buy our personal projector because we used it a lot.
Using technology and a good topic we can call students atention and we can taught our classes in a good way.
Othe think, is how students can be discipline, we know a lot cases for example we can talk with him or her and said what she is doing bad, give them a good oportunity to fix their mistakes.
In conclusion, for me this article give me a good information and how i can apllied in my class good methods for teaching.

Week 9

Movil phone in ESL classroom

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I’m going to start with this question who doesn’t have an intelligent cellphone nowadays?

Well, interesting question in this time is very uncommon don’t know a person who doesn’t have an intelligent cellphone because in the younger life is necessary as well in the adult life because it’s a big tool. As a teacher is important to include a cellphone because, we know it is a good material and makes our life very easy. I read the article and I think this is a good tool to improve our lessons because we are in contact with them. We can use the recording to make good interviews or to practice their speaking as well, also search for an app to practice our grammar or vocabulary. Students can carry on books in the cellphone memory to improve their lecture habit.

Other think, and I think this the most important is using the social networks who doesn’t have Facebook in this days. Using social networks we can practice with discussions and so on.

As a conclusion, the mobiles are very important in our life’s as a teacher and as a student too, because we can perfectly made our homework’s and assignees in an easy way.

WEEk 8

Authentic Material in ESL

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This article was very helpful because in this I learning how important is create an authentic material. technology has been envolving us and as a teacher it is very necessary use in our lessons because we can find good materials or maybe good ideas. Nowadays, using this technology is a good tool for us because we can made our own materials, the thing is in this article i learn how i can créate a lab sesión and the importance of it. Using a lab session we can improve our classes because students love the creative and new things .  also, we can improve listening skills. And in this way the class are going to move in another way, in a flexible way.

In conclusion, this article was very helpful to me, I learn to made a  lab session I was thinking this subject will be very tired and bored because is online, but I was in a big mistake because I learn a lot of good things, things that can I applied in my future classes.

Week 7

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This reader is about how we can develop our vocabulary.

I think those articles are very useful and, I remember what my grandpa said about the words that we do not know. It’s necessary as a teacher we should know about how we can search about something that we do not know, and I think this help us.  We can in an easy way use a dictionary and search for the main idea of the word; we can learn the pronunciation using a dictionary too. Nowadays, in internet we can find lot resources of application to make this job easier and more comfortable. Students should have the habit of develop their vocabulary one thinks is reading books. Today, is easy to find a good book for children’s or  teenagers and we can make a lesson using technology and, that will be very interesting for students other think that we can use to improve vocabulary is the use of songs we can made a worksheet using the letter of the song.

In conclusion, develop our vocabulary is important because in this way we can be professionals and we can made professional students just we have to focus on it.

Week 6

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Writing and reading skills

This article is about how improve the writing and reading skills.

This is very important because improve it is very hard for students, for them develop this skills, because most of them are kind of bored because of that this article is very helpful for teachers.

As we know writing is difficult too many students because they do not can organized their ideas also, the method to teach this is not appropriated. Teachers are very bored using their knowledge they do not include more information that they know and their classes are very bored. It’s hard for learners learn in this way because they spend two hour of class sit down at their desk, and that its very uncomfortable for the. The worst part of this is how the teacher teaches or how they do their lessons because they do not care about how the student feels. I think for these skills teachers have to be more dynamic because of the time and because these skills are very difficult to teach. For that I think this article help us because with the reading skill is the same, but in this case we can include more thinks or we can planning better using more dynamics or something like that.  The internet, technology is a good tool in this skills because we can practice more with it, we can find a lot of apps for made a good classes and the behavior of the students will be better.

In conclusion, this article helps us to develop our creativity to make dynamic lesson, and with this we can be better teachers.

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This reader was very important because we learn about how internet improves our speaking and listening skills.

As we know the internet it’s a big useful tool, we can already find apps to develop our speaking skill because the business already designed apps for foreign learners making very easy the way of their knowledge so that help us, as a teacher, because we can used this apps for made our classes more creative, and in this way the students can be more enthusiastic and their can pay more attention to our classes because this way is very comfortable. In the other hand, we can develop listening skills because their designed apps too also, we have a good method we can used the songs if we do not want to use any kind of app we can use songs and its very creative thing. Internet has good websites where you can find thinks like fill the blanks using an audio or role plays we can already carry on it on a computer or if we don’t have acces a computer we can use our cellphone.

In a conclusion, this article was very helpfully because this develop our imagination and with this information we can use for make our lessons very creative. The thing is we should explore and search more about what we want to show our students it will depend of the topic that we would like to develop.

WEEK 4   ´helpful tool into ELT´

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This article was very interesting i like it. We know internet is a useful tool in our routine as a teacher because from it we can download our materials and so on. The usefully not is only for teacher also, it’s for students.

Students can make their homework’s there, and can search for information. Some people said the internet is not a good tool for learners because they spend their time there using it in a bad way, but if their parents are checking and checking their work, it won’t happen. Nowadays, technology has been developing, and most of the schools has internet in their buildings, so in this case the teacher has control in his class. Students are very curious so they can search for websites with a productive information for their knowledge , as a teachers have the responsibility of give them good links to their explore . Internet is a good tool for develop students skills, we can find a lot of materials, websites and so on. Also, we can use our cellphones, in the world of internet we can find lot apps to make our job more dynamic and creative and we can develop grammar, listening, speaking and reading in an easy way.

To conclude, internet has too many advantages for us, but do not forget it has disadvantages too, so we have to carry on all that we learn with this article to not have mistaken.

WEEK 3

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 The reader of this week is similarly a the previous readers, but in this case we read about the blended learning, in my opinion this programm has good advantages because we as a teacher used other method to create our class and to improve differents skills in this case using audios, podcast etc. Although the concepts behind blended learning first developed in the 1960s, the formal terminology to describe it did not take its current form until the late 1990s.

Its very interesting the used of this because we create our material or maybe we can use a differents pages to create the podcast im searching for more information and this is very interesting because it talk about the models of this method: 
(Blended learning) <--- Here you can find more information.

There is little consensus on the definition of blended learning. Some academic studies have suggested it is a redundant term. However, there are distinct blended learning models suggested by some researchers and educational think-tanks. These models include:

• Face-to-face driver – where the teacher drives the instruction and augments with digital tools. Rotation – students cycle through a schedule of independent online study and face-to-face classroom time.
• Flex – Most of the curriculum is delivered via a digital platform and teachers are available for face-to-face consultation and support.
• Labs – All of the curriculum is delivered via a digital platform but in a consistent physical location. Students usually take traditional classes in this model as well.
• Self-blend – Students choose to augment their traditional learning with online course work. Online driver – Students complete an entire course through an online platform with possible teacher check-ins. All curriculum and teaching is delivered via a digital platform and face-to-face meetings are scheduled or made available if necessary.

It is important to note that even blended learning models can be blended together and many implementations use some, many, or even all of these as dimensions of larger blended learning strategy. These models, for the most part, are not mutually exclusive.

There are many components that can comprise a blended learning model, including "instructor-delivered content, e-learning, webinars, conference calls, live or online sessions with instructors, and other media and events, for example, Facebook, e-mail, chat rooms, blogs, podcasting, Twitter, YouTube, Skype and web boards"

now. talk about podcasting, this is a programm which is very faster and easier to teach from the computer because we can create our audios and own videos and everything in the web so because of that is very easier and cheaper if we want to teach using this method. 

as a conclusion, this information is vital because technology are growing up and we should grow with it because in this way we can made excellents lesson to our students .

WEEK 2

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The reader of this week is about metacognitive strategies. 

Something I learned and that I immediately wanted to share with a colleague was how it had a impact with the students. This article was very interesting as well because we are learning how to change a class being students can chance the way the class works and the thoughts of the students while they are in class

I think is important that the students can think by themselves about something to do in a class for example they can have initiative to make they own ideas to organize a work. If a teacher uses ITC tools in their class the students will be able to do that.

The metacognitive lesson and the use of ITC can make great lessons because if the teacher uses ITC he/she can play with images, videos and so, making interactive and interesting lessons; one of the goals that every teacher should have is to get the attention of their students so they can make a good class using ITC and their own ideas at the end the teacher is going to win the attention of the students and also the students learn more and can retain more in their minds. ITC has a positive challenge because in order to learn how to use ITC the teachers had to go through a process which makes the teacher better at their job.

In conclusion I think ITC is a very helpful tool that should be use in most of the classes because it helps to create an easier learning process. That is my point of view about the use of ITC.

Week 1 

Technology in our world 

This week we read an article about the world of technology basically the most important parts, the benefits and so on.

For me the part most important in this reader is how they describe this words CALL ( computer assisted language learning) how this envolved the softwares which were amazing in spite of the few technology in those years. There are many interesting things to mention about it for example the worked with programs or interactive videos that used to facilitate people understanding. In addition, this tool it is very useful for teaching. Also, these articles talkin about ICT ( information and communication technologies) this tool helps for teacher who taught  the second language because teachers used this teaching style to out of the routine. One of the most commond advantage that we have now it is the facility of internet also, we can use laptops our own cellphones and inside of this tools we can have a dictionary or other tool to made our class very interesting. Because of that the use of the technology its very important now a days because our world are grow up and that means technology grow with it. For us, as a teachers this ICT are a good way form to made more easy and funny our job.

In conclusion, those articles have had a good information, but in the present we know that very well because everybody has a god tool to develop this ICT. I think the most important think it is practice more and  share this ideas, and teach how the technology have to use to do not waste the information that we have already.