Effectiveness of the Integration of ICT Tools and Activities to Foster Awareness as the First Stage to Reach Learning Autonomy

Week 2: Educational Technology

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Something that I would like to remember about this article is the importance of the autonomy method in the teaching and learning process. As the article explains, autonomy is the capacity of the students to think and make a critical reflection and analysis about a specific topics by themselves. Students who analyze the topics by themselves and make reflection about that, and they become autonomous.

To follow that method teachers play an important role, they have to be the guide to the students providing to them the activities that they can follow to develop the reflections skills and the critical analysis, to get them focus, and they may become concern about the their weakness and  their strengths, so they can be autocratic about themselves. Teachers can use ITC’s tools to achieve that purpose.  At the same time, learners need to reflect on their practices as well as their management of technologies and sources, in that case the role of the teacher is then critical in order to offer accompaniment, support and preparation.

As a future teacher, I would like to make my students autonomous as learners, providing them different activities as the one that we are developing in this class, I would like to provide them different text with specific information, or in content based class, in which they can learn something different and they can analyze all the information and give their own opinion about the readings, trying to make them autonomous.

Instructional Technology

 Computers and language learning: An overview 

Week I: The Implementation of Technology in the Teaching Process

 Fernando Canales 

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The reading for this week explains the implementation of technology in the classrooms becoming an important tool in the teaching process of a language. The article explains the benefits that computers and the Internet can provide to students in the learning process of a foreing language, and the important role that teachers has in the teaching process. 

The article explains different points about the implementations of computer programs and the possible benefits to put into practice that pedagogical technique. It mentions that use a computer program in the teaching process of a language using different software’s that are useful tools for teachers and students to teach and learn language skills in a different and funny way. However, as it could have benefits, the article explains that could be a problem for students in order to get distracted at the moment of being working in the computer, for that reason the idea was rejected, because another idea, the idea of communicative call was better, in which students could be working in groups or pairs, reading an article or just speaking they can find relationship between topics, and it is better for them, in contrast to be practicing with a machine with a robotic language. 

There are different ways in which I would apply technology on my classes, one possibility could be the use of a software to teach grammar structures or conjugations, playing a memory game, in which students could find the words that form a correct structure for a sentence; using a projector, and a computer.