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.