USING INTERNET TOOLS
It would be nice that somehow you as English teacher can have your students interact with internet tools, but you have to be careful as not all the students will feel comfortable using or working on them.
To be honest the last time we were working with internet tools, I felt disappointed. First because the computer did not work well, so when the teacher was explaining something, I was lost and I could not do anything. Second I think is because the tools the teacher gave us are not well-known well at least for me, so I did not feel like motivated to work on those tasks let’s say, but I could realize that some of my classmates were eager to work on them which is nice.
I think it can be important to use internet tools with the EFL students as they can help us to carry out any task but as I have said before we have to be careful on what we want students to learn and what the purpose on those tools is, I mean we can not bring any web sites we want. We need to have a clear objective on why we want our students to know about a web site.
Maybe the use of these tools can be related with the logical intelligence as these people have a clear idea of the information they are acquiring, and because they like to solve any difficulty they may have and for me using internet tools have some difficulties.
Hello Alex. I think that you are right when you say that the teacher has to have clear objectives in order to make students walk in the way.I think that a teacher has to know what they are going to teach because if you just discover a nice page,and you want your students to work on it, but you don´t know how to use it, you are going to have problems trying to teach about that page...
ResponderEliminarGOD BLESS YOU FRIEND.
Wow, well I guess it's quite obvious that if u were seeing a site for the 1st time, it wouldn't be "well-known" for u... That's mind-numbing for me dude, lol.
ResponderEliminarAnd I agree regarding the point where not all students feel comfortable, either way, the teacher should make it clear that not feeling comfortable with something, it's actually no real reason to not learn something, as if that were the case we would never learn anything, for effort is essential.
Alex,
ResponderEliminarmost of the people who have used these tools have gone through the shocking and stressful moment. And this might the reason teachers and students in our salvadoran society will continue rejecting the idea of using different teaching and learning aids. I am a fan of what countries in Europe constantly do in the education area. Then I compare it with what our people and system does, unfortunately we are so far from where they are. A good percentage of this change depend on people. If teachers get behind in updating their teaching, our students will repeat the old ways of teaching.