Digital Resources

M04RTY PRODUCTIONS

MSc. Raúl Mora Rodríguez

English Teacher

Digital Resources

March 9th, 2019

created by Raúl Mora Rodríguez 

Introduction

The opportunities that we have available today for education are almost infinities, the huge amount of resources that we can find on the internet are incredible, and most of the time these resources are for free. Which implies that the user can create great projects or information with all the elements available on the web. Besides, it is important to remain that we live in a digital world. All the information is and technology at the same time are here to stay. The effect that new technologies had in our society and in the education system, how is it? The technology is necessary and useful, and it is an essential tool for education and teaching and it is adapted to globalization. We are going to see some pro and cons about the technology in our educational system and evaluate it, take in count the identities and made the relationship between technology and the globalization; the educational challenges are part of this topic and the development that they made. The technology is very important in education nevertheless it is not the main support of it.

Feedly

Feedly is a great web page in which the user can find precise information for professional development. Feedly provides the user with great resources of information to create or to complete investigation projects. The user can follow different pages of multiple topics and all of them vary from one to another. The user will decide which information recover for the project. As well the user can create folders with the different types of information.

https://feedly.com/i/welcome 

Quizzes in Google Forms

Google forms offer the user multiple advantages to making use of this type of tools allows the teacher to create quizzes or even exams to evaluate his/her students, even without being on the same physical place. Students can take the quiz from their phones or computers in whatever place they are. One of the greatest advantages of Google forms is that it sends the result for the quizzes or exams automatically after they are done with the exam. This facilitates teachers work, besides, students will receive an instant result. The evaluation becomes more interactive at the same time.

https://www.google.com/forms/about/ 

Concluding remarks

There will be always debating about this controversial topic but what do we think about being part of the society and this advance? Do we think technology is a very useful tool in education or it is just a distractor on it? What kind of secondary effects does technology have? Technology is one of the most powerful tools that nowadays teachers had because there are a lot of tools and equipment that can be used for teaching. For example, with the use of intelligent boards teacher and student can learn about a lot, accessing to the internet to search about a specific topic or looking for information given by the teacher and so on.

     Also, with the use of some interactive web pages’ students can learn about different types of things and subjects like math, social studies, chemistry and a lot more. For the students that enjoy the reading exist a lot of books that can be accessed for the teacher to give to the students to practice or to read just for fun.

      Technology can be consider as a really good activity because students will feel excited to study with the use of technology, instead that the old boring way to study with physical books and normal classes just hearing the teacher talks for hours, this can be considered really boring nowadays because with the great technology that we have and get access to its amazing all the things that we can develop with the students. But not also students will be benefit from this great opportunity; teachers as well will get a lot of strategies to teach but obviously depending on the teacher because there are old schools teachers that prefer work with old strategies and this can result very boring for the students and it will have more work for the teacher, because it’s so simple teach with the technology the only thing that you need is a computer and a lot of imagination because you don’t need money either, because most of the programs available for interact teaching are for free , there is no excuse to continue teaching in the age of dinosaurs, so it’s really important to be updated every simple day, in order to be technologically competitive, and remember to get access to a good connection of internet in order to develop all the great techniques that you have in mind, because even with all the technology existed, you need the most powerful creation of the humankind, that’s right, the internet.