Taking students to think Criticaly

Kenia Verónica  Menjivar Palencia

Week 5

Critical Thinking and Technology

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The article Critical Thinking and Technology was interesting for me because mentioned why technology influence the critical skill of students. Something that caught my attention was that the article mentioned about why people wants to learn, that people usually learned different thing unconscionably while they are growing up and that people usually learn as their necessities, for example what they are interested at is what they need to know to solve problems that concerns them at the moment. The article mentioned what preferences the students have at the time of learning, that some students learn easily by taking a class in which they can have a visual material like pictures, diagrams, files or demonstration and on the other hand that some students prefer auditory classes in which them can have written words, notations and speeches.

Something that I want to remember form the article is that people love diversity and that if we as teachers can provide that diversity to our classes that will get interested in learn the language no matter which personality students may have, also something that make me want to read more about was that we most as teachers help our students to feel comfortable and believe in their capacities that they can learn about any topic and explore their curiosity and based on that curiosity give them reasons to feel motivated to learn what we are teaching them, I think that real challenge is to make them feel motivated about our class and for that we can support our ideas for teaching using technology or any other resource that make our class different and show that diversity which make students feel motivated to learn. 

USING INTERNET INTO ELT

KENIA VERONICA MENJIVAR

WEEK 4 CALL Me… Maybe: A Framework for integrating the Internet into ELT

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I am glad to read the article for this week 4, because talk about the use of internet into ELT and different web sites that teachers can use Something that impress me was that there is a framework that can be used with access to internet or without access to internet.

Something that I remember about the article that I think teachers can put into practice is the use of internet in classrooms in language learning. Nowadays technology has become increasingly popular, as teachers we should use this tool and exploit all his benefits, as the article mentioned can help for advice, for analysis for creativity, etc.

Using as an advice, we can correct or resolve any doubt about an exercise for example or word if we have not clear the correct meaning, spelling, or pronunciation, personally I usually use it for this reason, because I do not know the correct spelling or pronunciation.

Talking about analysis, internet can help to understand a topic if we had doubts about what teacher explained on class and for any reason we did not ask to the teacher, we can go on internet and look more information about the topic and check some examples too.

Also, internet can be used for creativity too, because we can find many ideas for activities that can be use in class to tech any lesson or exercises that we can add to the class to understand better the topic that is being teach.

What I really liked about technology is that are many web sites in which we can find useful information nevertheless not everyone has access to internet all the time as we wish, so the article mentioned ways to incorporate technology even if students has access to internet or not, by using mobiles phones for example, we can use mobile phones as a useful tool too. 

Week 3 Podcasting and listening resources

1.   Integrating Call into the Classroom: the role of podcasting

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2.   Blending Technologies in ESL courses: a Reflexive Enquiry

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One of the things that catch my attention by Reading the article Integrating Call into the classroom: the role of podcasting in an ESL Listening Strategies Course was the Podcasting term I did know what podcasting is before reading the article, and I really liked it because I think is a very useful tool for teaching, with the se of podcasting students can improve their listening skills and the pronunciation as well.

With the use of podcasting students could be able to practice and reproduce listening exercises at any time by their MP3 player or a mobile device and repeat the exercise as many times they want, with the podcasting teachers can leave students practice at home and get them more involve on the language. Nowadays many teachers use videos or audios to help students improve listening skills or to improve the pronunciation as well. I consider that in this article we can see that podcasting is a very good technique that as teacher we can use.

Talking about the second article Blending Technologies in ESL courses, this article mentioned is that students feel motivate to learn by the using of podcasting, by using podcasting they can have a good time listening the audio if it is an interesting conversation for example. What I think is important is that the student fell motivate to learn if we as teachers can get that in our students the acquisition of the language will be easier and the use of podcasting could be one the techniques that may help us with that goal.

Week 2: Learning autonomy process with ICTs

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Something that really, I liked from this article and catched my attention was the information about the use of technology as a tool for learning process, there are many online resources that can be used to teach language and what the article encourage is to make use of it. The article encourages to use technology to help students to practice on their own, to have a routine in which they dedicated some time to practice at home and make the students be autonomous.

Something that made me want to read more, was about to promote the student’s self-evaluation and self-monitoring, with the use of technology students can exercises online and evaluate themselves, making students be independent and do not staying just hat the teacher explained on class. Students that practice on their own have a better acquisition of the language and get more interesting to learn or asked in class for any doubt.

Also, teachers can identify the students’ needs by asking their questions or doubts because they show their interesting and teacher can take advantage of it including extra information about what they have practice on. I really agree with the idea to make students be more independent and exercise and evaluated on their own, teacher needs to be guide for students and which they come and asked for many doubts but if they practice on their own and do not stay just what the teacher explain on class the learning will be easier and more complete.

My reaction about Computers and language learning: an overview


I want to start saying that this article changed my mind about learning processing, technology has increased and talking about language learning, there many ways to learn throw a computer. What I really like about the article is the information of many ideas of multimedia programs and exercises that can be found on the web for the used to language learning. something else that I want to point about the article is that encourage us as a teacher to use different techniques that can be used with the technology to teach languages and how technology can simplify us the job of teaching languages if we make a good use of it.

on the other hand, I also want to say that was a little bit confused to understand because of the references that appears on every paragraph on the article, which made got lost of the idea while I was reading.

Reading at this article I could realize how useful and important the use of technology could be for teaching a language the article pointed that technology is very good tool to teach in which we can also create our personal program our evaluations to help our students practice the language throw a computer or mobile device, by using technology to teach the practice could be also funnier if as teachers we use animations our games to help students practice while having fun.

The article remarked the importance of technology for learning process and gave ideas and reasons to take advantage of it.


By Kenia Menjivar