Instructional Technology - Beatriz Zavala

Rate: 5 Based on the articles: "10 Benefits of Getting Students to Participate in Classroom Discussions" by Maryellen Weimer and "Increase Student Interaction with 'Think-Pair-Shares' and 'Circle Chats'" by Kristina Robertson. As teachers, we know that is important to keep students participating in class. In this way, we notice their comprehension of the topic and also is a good way to check their advance in the language by giving their opinion. And this is something that the articles mentioned and offers some good ideas of how we can make students participate. The first article mentioned 10 benefits of students' participation and I am going to explain all of them. First, "Participation adds interest" it said that for students is bored only listen the teacher explanation and that something that could help is ask for students' opinion; maybe one of the students have an idea of the topic and it could be meaningful for them lis...

Rate: 5 Based on the articles: "Maximizing the Benefits of Project Work in Foreign Language Classroms" by Bülent Alan and Fredricka L. Stoller and "Seven Essentials for Project-Based Learning" by John Larmer and John R. Mergendoller. Projects work help students in different ways. Also, they facilitate their learning and their communication with their classmates and make them organized. First, some of the benefits of projects work are that students can choose with their teacher the topic with their fell comfortable; the project could be an interview, to create a presentation on powerpoint or create a model of something, the principal point is that they have to be creative. Also, they can choose the people to work with and that facilitates the comunication and the harmony in the group. Next, the topics have to be relate with the real world because it could be more meaningful for them if they can tell a self-experience and that could guide them to focus in the ...

Rate:4 Based on the articles: "Online English-English Learner Dictionaries Boost Word Learning" by Ulugbek Nurmukhamedov and "Using Technology to Assist in Vocabulary Acquisition and Reading Comprenhension" by Andreea I. Constantinue. Nowadays, most of the people know that internet may help them to improve whatever thing that are learning and learn English is not an exception. When you are learning a language, something that is principal is learn vocabulary; and to that, learners need to find the "perfect" dictionary that provides them all the tools that are necesary for them. In the first article, are mention some features that we need to take account when we use a dictionary. The first one is the corpus-based dictionary, this means that the dictionary has to have real-word vocabulary and also the article provides a list of some dictinaries that have this feature. The second feature is the word frecuency, which means that the dictionary has to m...

Rate: 5 Based on the article: "Twenty ideas for using mobile phones in the language classroom" by Hayo Reinders. Nowadays, the use of cellphones becomes necesary for everyone. We want to be in contact with our family, friends, cooworkers and every people that surround us. But also, we can use our mobile phones for learning and teaching a new language and this article mention twenty greatly ideas to do that. But remember that use mobile phones with young or teenager students could have pros and cons. But first we are going to see the pros. One principal reason for using mobile phones in class is that students can create their own learning. For students may result boring or so traditional only receiving class in a classroom, but if they are able to use their cellphone for look for a word or recording themselves in a conversation; may help them to know what their mistakes are and auto correct them. The second reason is that you can use a lot of activities both inside ...

Rate: 3 Based on the article "Online Collaborative Writting Using Wikis" by Paul Sze. In this article the author describe step by step a project that his students develop in order to know how the life in secondary school is. He did it in a school in Hong Kong because there almost all the people have acces to internet. To do that, they used a writing online tool call Wiki. In the article the author explain that wiki is a website where anyone can edit anything anytime they want. So that, the teacher create 6 groups in class and every group has a diferent aspect that has to describe. The diferent aspects were: Specials rooms and facilitates, the school as one big family, interest clubs/extra-curricular activities, lunch times and recess, the S1 curriculum and adapting to secondary school life. Each integrant of the groups observed the other students in the diferent areas and then they star to write their draf. Then they checked their drafs and a proofreading in order to ...

Welcome to the lab session 1 Topic:  Daily Routines Authors: Hilda Reyes and Beatriz Zavala Time: 60 minutes Level:  A1 Hello!, welcome to the first lab session in this course. The  today's topic will be "Daily Routines" and the grammar is the simple present. Your teachers will be Hilda Reyes and Beatriz Zavala. We hope you enjoy this class!. 1- Watch the following video and pay attention to the lyric. https://youtu.be/eUXkj6j6Ezw Time: 3 min. 2- Watch the video of daily routines, listen and repeat the pronunciation. https://youtu.be/tiXAWq852Ts Time: 8 min. 3- Now we are going to learn about the structures for the simple present tense. Pay attention to them. https://youtu.be/3W3AZ5Zw0n0 Time: 10 min. 4- Now that you know some daily routines. We are going to practice. Fill in the blank with the correct word. learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/word-games/daily-routines Time: 10 min. 5- Here you have an exercise to practice the simple present. ...