Instructional Technology - Beatriz Zavala

Rate: 4 Based on the articles: " Using Internet-Based Children's Literature to teach EFL" by Larry J. Mikulecky and "Using the Internet in ESL Writing Instruction" by Jarek Krajka. In the last years, people had to learn english through books, dictionaries and asking native english language, but now with the internet, we can look for information at whatever time and in least time than searching in books. Nowadays, we have an extensive list of places in which we can learn a second language. Also, we can find exercise that may help us to improve our new language. Technology comes to facilitate our learning or teaching style. We can find all the information in english and that helps us to learn better and faster than in the past that we had to traduce all the words and sentences. But, how can we help our students to improve their reading and writing skill?. First, I think that as a teacher, we have to make our students feel confident with us. In this way, they...

Rate: 5 Based on the articles: "The employment of CALL in Teaching Second/Foreign Language Speaking Skills" byJulia Gong, and "Using Original Video and Sound Effects to Teach English" by Shahla Yassaei. Communicate is one of the principal things that humans has to develop, because in this way we transmit all our knowledge or whatever that we want to share with others. There are many ways to communicate, but today, we are going to focus on speaking. When you are learning a second language, you has to develop your speaking skill. And teachers need to know different ways to make that their students communicate what they learn. In the past, teachers used a traditional way to make their students speak; they used the method of repetition. They believe that in this way their students will learn. But the problem with the repetition is that students only said the phrases that they learned, this method was a little mechanic. Nowadays, we have a lot of resources to make ...

Rate: 5 Based on the article: "Critical thinking and technology" by Ken Bain. A critical thinking is important to give our opinion about something. But, how we can do or teach someone to do it? Well, in this article I found some things that we could put in practice to improve that. But first, It explains why and how people learn. First, the article mention that our nature as human is being curious. We always try to know why something happen?, or how does something work?, and we are always looking for answers. Second, we are emotional creatures. We always try to understand the attitudes of everyone, or try to solve problems. So, if we know that, we can facilitate the learning process to our students by giving them some questions that they can investigate in their house. For example, we can ask them to search about "what the elephants eat?, and how they solve problems?". Or something that is from their interest and that excited them to know more about that. Also...

Rate: 5 Based on the article: "CALL Me... Maybe: A framework for integrating the Internet into ELT" by George M. Chinnery The use of multiple tools to teach a second language is essential when we are teachers. And the use of internet it becomes a principal tool nowadays. In the last years, most of the people have the capacity to acces to internet. And as a teachers, we can use that to help them to improve their learning. How can we do that? Well, in the internet, we can find a lot of resources that will help our students to develop their 4 principal skills. We can look for some task, or videos that will facilitate their learning and it will become our class more interactive. Also, we can use that to give them some activities that they can develop in their home; such as podcast, videos or books that will increase their vocabulary. Then, we can used what they learned to share with their classmates. With the use of the internet in class we can give students some act...