The impact of technology in the classroom-week 3

As we already know the process of education had been changing. At the very beginning, students were sitting in a classroom in front of a board, and a teacher was stand up, writing on the board or reading a lesson, but since the science had been advancing, it had been taking place in the classrooms. The articles presented the influence that technology has to teach and learn a foreign language.

The article explained a little research project of a course of 5 weeks in which teachers implemented technological resources. Something that calls me attention was the objective of use strategies to help understanding, and also to exposure students to the cultures, where the target language is spoken. I think that it really help to develop the ear.

  

In addition, Some of the materials were: online submissions and consultations on line, instead of paper based submission, seminars-participatory (student focused) instead of lectures-teacher focused, materials in digital format, instead of materials in a large booklet, also implemented podcast  like ESL pod and songs (stories or dialogs of native speakers and American songs),  and others things. That had good results, for teachers an easy way to teach and get materials and for students, a more communicative learning.

However, it mentioned that the use of computers may negatively affect the teaching of other academic skills such as witting and argumentation. That is something that I want to remember from this article because I think that it give us two different points of view of the use of technology. I think that technology is a great resource that had change the way in we teach and learn, due to that, we had to be careful with this, because, as it’s true technology help to develop some skills but also could affect in a wrong way others skills.