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WEEK 9

ONLINE COLLABORATIVE WRITING USING WIKIS. As teachers we have to know that we can try or implement new ideas, new websites or new things that we can use it as a tool with our students and, of course as benefits for them to develop their language skills. According to the reading it says that at first it was a little bit weird and maybe dificult for learners try to discover or the pourpuse of the wikis use. Then, they explian that students star to enjoy writing in the wikis section, they audience who read their paragraph's. Teachers says that they have found many benefits and pros for all of them. Students can work by joing there with different classes or even do different schools.  According to the reading it says that there are many wikis at the Internet it beacomes famous for the benefits that provides students. Teachers and students can create their own wikis for free. It is easy to learn and to use. These tool is pretty useful beacuse students can develop their writin...
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WEEK 7

According to the reading. We can be smart by using many websites at the Internet that can provide many ways to learn and develop the reading skills for students in this case we are talking about children's. We can create our own readers to provide them at the classroom and developing during the class. It is a benefit for us to create our own readings because we can control what we want in order to teach them that skills, if we want to teach them the ''The Farm Animals'' we can create our own reading, and we can do it with many topics. A fond childhood memory shared by many people are the edtime stories parents read to them. Lying down and carefully paging through picture books together, children explore a worldof imagination and fascination; they identify withthose characters and are eager to find out what will happen next. Story after story, night after night, such repeated practice creates a strongfamily bond as well as emerging concepts of p...
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WEEK 6

There are many benefits when we talk about the employment of call in teaching second/foreign language speaking skills. There is more freedom at the web to try new things for the students to develp many skills that they have. They can take the risk to try new thing in order to learn english. Also, there are many students that feel more confortable talking to a computer or doing something at the web than talking face to face with other people or dealing with real life, they feel more confortable by using the web. Computers can offer many tools to learn english, there are videos, texts, phragraphs, audio and video clips. They can practice the new language by talking to someone who is native speaker it would beacome easier for the pupil to recognize the mistakes or the right pronunciation, new structures that maybe the student doesn't know about it. When we talk about Using Original Video and Sound Effects to Teach English it doesn't mean to try to have a perfect lesson or use ...
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WEEK 5

Critical Thinking and Technology There are several reasons that critical thinking is not being focused on, and the need to have better scores on assessments is just one of them.  Issues such as how to define critical thinking, how to teach critical thinking, and whether critical thinking should be taught or learned through social interaction plague educators who think about enhancing the critical thinking skills of their students. Oftentimes, critical thinking is something that has been overlooked at the elementary, middle, and high school levels where students are taught how to learn, as well as how to analyze information. When these students make it to the level of higher education or the workforce, the educators and trainers are forced to begin by teaching critical thinking skills as opposed to beginning with the information that needs to be conveyed. Determined, after much review and research, that learning requires effort, but critical thinking requires m...
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CALL Me ... Maybe: A Framework for Integrating the Internet into ELT

WEEK 4 According to the article there are many ways to integrate the internet into ELT. These different ways can help the students to develop many skills that they have. Also, it helps the teachers to facilitate the teaching process.  Something that calls my attetion it was that students can watch videos at the classroom with the only pourpuse to learn something new or, teacher can use it as a warm up or any stage. Learners will be excited about something new in the classroom. Everybody loves learn in a different and funny way. Teachers can create a group on facebook to post videos, grammar structures, audios to help them to develop their skills. Nowdays, must of the students loves check social networks and they are checking it every hour. So, It will be almost impossible to ignore the content that the teacher share with them. There is another part from all of these point of views. The ones who doesn't have access to Internet. We already discuss about the benefits usi...
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Blending technologies in ESL courses. Blended learning refers to the combination of multimedia elements on a computer with classroom instruction with a teacher and peers. Although the TALL system began using blended learning over a decade ago, the concept has only recently gained currency in the world of computer assisted learning.  The adoption of computer technology in all aspects of human lives in the last decade has led to its growing presence in educational settings. Teaching and learning do not have to take place in the traditional face-to-face classroom anymore and students increasingly expect some level of computer-mediated instruction in their college classes. This amount of computer-mediated instruction can vary from, for example, students accessing the class syllabus and notes online to students taking part in online simulations of lab experiments. According to Picciano (2009), classes where face-to-face and online activities are integrated in a planned...
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Effectiveness of the Integration of ICT Tools and Activities to Foster Awareness as the First Stage to Reach Learning Autonomy   According to this article the autonomy of learning is the ability of students to improve and develop by them self under they responsability. Also, they can improve and develop different skills in the classroom by doing different kind of exercises usign ICT Tools it would be fun for them and also they will learn a lot developing their own skills. For that reason it is really important for teachers to being careful with activities that they would implement in the classroom for the students. We have the responsability to increase their cognitive process by activities in the classroom. Acoording to this, pupils have to be responsable for their own learning process when they use ICT Tools to develop their skills. They sould watch the correct videos. Use the tools with the only one pourpuse of study what they have to study.
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