Week 14: Projects

Using technology and projects has become useful in the educational field.

Is a great resource if we want to get and keep our students motivated in a class, besides that it contributes to maintain a positive attitude hence students will become through time autonomous. 

Working on projects  make students more responsible and as we have been reading  the teacher instead of being the source of all knowledge, is a collaborator who helps students themselves gain the information and skills they need to succeed.

Project using Basic Grammar: Students will work in pairs they will be given a list of 10 verbs in past tense and they have to  create a story. After creating the story, students will have to record a video, telling the story. In order to do this activity, students can use a cellphone, tablet or  a camera.


Rate: 4

Week 13: Having students active

we as teacher need to keep motivation and curiosity on what we are teaching, we must pose questions, topics, activities that intrigue and fascinate our students. when students participate in class, they are forced to pay close attention to the lecture and think critically about the subject at hand. This is a great way to remember the information you learn over the course of the semester. Classroom participation is important because learning is not just between the student and the teacher but part of the whole classroom experience. When students participate, they learn from each other and internalize the knowledge better.

Besides that, the activity on NiceNet was really interesting, as far is one of the activities I have enjoy the most, not only because it was about an interesting topic, but also because I had the opportunity to interact with my classmates and notice that not only for me is important to have students interaction in classroom.

Rate: 3

Week 11: Drawing tool

As we have been reading, students are totally different and they have different learning needs and styles, but they all have something in common, is that they are attracted to technology. Today students are fluent in the use of technological devices and social networking technologies and teacher can take advantage of this knowledge to enrich the learning experience.

 Introducing mobile phones into learning experience might sound a little bit wild, and at the very first view might appear some concerns like, what if students gets addicted to cellphones? or what if students misuses that technology?. But if we pay  close attention, cellphones are a great tool to explote during class time, our students can access mobile applications wich are available for example:

• Calendar helps to keep track of class dates and mark important submissions,
• Phone’s camera cal help students to annotate assignments with pictures,
• Photo viewer, audio and video player can help to disseminate and assimilate know led in a fun and easy way.
• Calculator as a great resource

As teacher, our duty is not to restrict the use of cellphones, but to encourage a productive management of it.

Rate: 5