CALL Me ... Maybe: A Framework for Integrating the Internet into ELT
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 using the
internet in the classroom but, just for the ones who has Internet.
Hello, Alexander.
ReplyDeleteI read your blog and I think is interesting. Integrating internet to the classroom is an action that someday will put into the classroom in El Salvador's schools; however, not many schools are open or have the resources to do it. I believe that everything undergoes a process of metamorphosis (evolution), and education can, someday, undergo that metamorphosis. Nonetheless, I believe that there should be a provious plan to incorporate this into the syllabus; in other words, there should be a provious planification process in order to figure how to involve these new an modern kind of methodologies to enhance learning and teaching.
I agree in most of the points you have mentioned, but there is only one I disagree—posting a lot of things for the students. Notwithstanding this sounds pretty illogical, giving everything to the students would not foster autonomy. Internet and technological devices are a tool that students can use to search everything by themselves, which can foster autonomy —as long as they have been noticed how to use them—; thus, it is necessary to give many things them. Obviously, as teachers, we can help them by giving FEW things, but not everything; therefore, a reminder of what they have to do would be just fine.
Good blog, Alexander.
Regards.