Instructional technology By Alexander Figueroa

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...

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 ...

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...

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...