Hi everyone!
Wow! Week 10 is already finishing! The last week...it is a pity this course will end...so soon to me.
During the course I learned and experienced that it is not the technology itself that promotes learning, but the interaction among people. That to promote this interaction and transform it into collaboration is made easier by the technologies but nothing substitutes the ability of a good teacher to incentivate and monitor the use of them. That all technology tools (even Power Point) can be used in order to make students active, interact and learn. That implementing the use of technology in class is a slow process, which involves changing people's minds and our minds. That the choice for the use of technologies in class is political too, and that all over the world teachers face difficulties to implement technologies to their classes.
The course was really well organized and, by now, I can not imagine how it could be different. For me it was very important to realize the power of interaction technology brings itself. Everybody has a voice. Everybody finds and answer. Also, considering specifically language learning, I learned a lot about and could find a way to start using online resources in order to improve speaking. And ANVILL is awesome! For sure I will implement the use of it.
Hope I can keep interacting with the teachers who participated of the course...How about organizing a discussion group online or something like that? Good start, uh?
Best wishes,
Ju
Brazil
Thursday, June 12, 2014
Sunday, June 8, 2014
Week 9 Toughts
Hi everyone!
This week we had a wonderful debate concerning learning styles, which reminded me about how important and necessary is to consider and respect the characteristics of the students.
Technologies and online tasks can be helpful in the process of learning because it allows the teacher to work with a wider range of materials, such as videos and recordings. Also, with the use of technologies the learning process is controlled much more by the students than by the teacher.
A good surprise of this week was meeting Mr. Magoto and learning about ANVILL. It is a great tool for implementing the use of technologies in our class. It is a kind of language lab. But virtual. I could learn a lot in our chat. Obrigada, Mr. Magoto! Thanks!
Ju
Brazil
This week we had a wonderful debate concerning learning styles, which reminded me about how important and necessary is to consider and respect the characteristics of the students.
Technologies and online tasks can be helpful in the process of learning because it allows the teacher to work with a wider range of materials, such as videos and recordings. Also, with the use of technologies the learning process is controlled much more by the students than by the teacher.
A good surprise of this week was meeting Mr. Magoto and learning about ANVILL. It is a great tool for implementing the use of technologies in our class. It is a kind of language lab. But virtual. I could learn a lot in our chat. Obrigada, Mr. Magoto! Thanks!
Ju
Brazil
Sunday, June 1, 2014
Week 8 Toughts
Hi,
Wow! This week we had a lot of work! First of all we explored new tools to create online and offline activities. How great they are! Also we had to share and comment the first draft of our projects and plans. That was nice to feel that there is someone who can support me during my journey of implementing technologies in my class.
That is a pity the course will finish in two weeks. Hope I can keep contact with the teachers I met here.
Ju
Brazil
Wow! This week we had a lot of work! First of all we explored new tools to create online and offline activities. How great they are! Also we had to share and comment the first draft of our projects and plans. That was nice to feel that there is someone who can support me during my journey of implementing technologies in my class.
That is a pity the course will finish in two weeks. Hope I can keep contact with the teachers I met here.
Ju
Brazil
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