AWESOME E-TOOLS APPLIED IN EDUCATION
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MSc. Raúl Mora Rodríguez
English Teacher
Virtual Learning Environments
February 23rd ,2019
Introduction
Nowadays we have classrooms that are one hundred percent prepared to impart classes completely digital with a lot of resources that will help the students to learn in a more interactive way. But it does not matter how much access to technology do we have every single day in our classrooms the teacher it is going to play a very important role.
The teacher is the one that guides the class and all the good and interactive things that are going to happen thanks to the implementation of technology in the classroom and here is important to remember the famous quote by Bill Gates founder of Microsoft Corporation, that says technology it’s just a tool and the teacher is the most important part of education. And basically, this is the main purpose of this investigation to identify the use of technology in English as a Foreign Language Classrooms. For this reason, is important to look for applications or webpages that help students on this process. Diigo, Blogger, and MindMup are awesome sources that we can use for this purpose.
Diigo
Diigo is a very useful webpage in which the user is allowed to analyzed information from multiple webpages and use that information for later. In my personal opinion, Diigo is a really good source for teaching. Students will be able to use the information they analyzed and use it as they want. It is for free and very interactive. https://www.diigo.com/
Blogger
Blogger is a page that allows users to create content about any topic they decide. Blogger has a lot of advantages referring to education. Students are able to create the pages and share the information that they want. However, the teacher is able to guide students in the creation of the content for the page. And obviously, the creation of the blog will contribute with the students learning for this reason it needs to have meaningful learning. https://www.blogger.com/
MindMup
MindMup is a tool that allows the user to create awesome Mind Maps using their creativity. MindMup had multiple elements that allow the user to complete the task in a more creative way. The mind maps are downloaded or can be post it in every single place on the internet. https://www.mindmup.com/
Conclusions
Nowadays technology is everywhere we are going, for example in restaurants, hospitals, in our houses but even more important for us in our schools, and as teachers, we must realize that technology is an amazing tool to teach. With a lot of sources of information computers and internet are today’s weapons for many teachers worldwide.
Besides this technology became more powerful every day, that it will be the day that notebooks and pencils will no longer require to teach, and everything will be with the use of computers, tablets, and laptops. But until that day comes is a difficult fight for teachers to get access to this kind of technology because not in all schools, students had the opportunity to have a computer laboratory where to study, make research and to get access to the internet. Because in many schools there is no money to finance computers labs, because most of these equipment is really expensive to maintain and not just to maintain also to buy and to get qualified teachers to teach students, because computer labs always needs to have the best equipment possible to teach, besides it need to had good internet connection to use online software some that are for free, but basically one of the problems to introduce technology to the classrooms is that all the equipment required is really expensive.
Technology is moving so fast nowadays that to have good labs is very difficult because, with the constant updates on software and hardware, it results almost impossible for teachers to have equipment in excellent conditions. But it will be excellent that every single teacher had access to the all-new technology for educational purposes to teach their students with the newest electronically tools, so the students are able to learn with excellent equipment but also with a good instruction by teachers. And with good orientation plus good equipment, the electronically teaching is going to be amazing.
Raul, technology won't stop in its development, and if we don't catch up with it, we can have problems being updated. Somehow we must be in the lookout for what younger groups of learners are into to help them become users of technology for their own learning.
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