Benefits of Getting Students to Participate in Classroom Discussions.

Despite numerous arguments favoring active learning, especially class discussion, instructors sometimes worry that discussion is an inefficient or ineffective way for students to learn. What happens when students make non-value added, irrelevant, or inaccurate contributions? What about comments from non-experts that may obfuscate rather than clarify understanding? What about students who speak only to earn participation credit rather than contribute substantively to the discussion? Acoording to this, there is the reason why the teacher must have to provide to all the students the correct information. Also, teachers can ask for read a little article and then, write a explanation about it. Another things is, that learners can practice in a forum online discussions by posting what they read or what they know about certain topic.

The students further articulated five ways that participation enhances learning. To summarize, participation:

• increases engagement;
• helps students retain and remember information;
• confirms what they have already learned;
• provides clarification of prior learning; and
• deepens their understanding especially through hands-on and application-based learning opportunities.

Critical Thinking and Technology.

Critical thinking is a higher-order cognitive skill that is indispensable to students, readying them to respond to a variety of complex problems that are sure to arise in their personal and professional lives. The  cognitive skills at the foundation of critical thinking are  analysis, interpretation, evaluation, explanation, inference, and self-regulation. When people talk about critical thinking is about to develop many skills that we have but in differente ways. In this case the one that we are going to talk is related with technology. However, we can develop the student's critical thinking by practicing debate in a Facebook group talking by an specific topic. 

To create environments that engage students in these processes, instructors need to ask questions, encourage the expression of diverse opinions, and involve students in a variety of hands-on activities that force them to be involved in their learning. As teachers we have to let the students ask about some doubt that they have. Ask questions and of couser let them know the answers that't one of the most important ways to develop critical thinking.

When students think critically, they actively engage in these processes:

• Communication
• Analysis
• Synthesis
• Problem-solving
• Evaluation