This article is a great help for many people because it explains us how we should take advantage of the Internet according to our limits.
Students can compare and contrast global perspectives about recent events by using analytics tools like Google trends, survey friends on social networks, preparing presentations on sites such as Prezi, which has many advantages than using Microsoft Word. Also, they have the chance to posting what they have found or they consider interesting on Youtube.
Something I want to remember from this articles is that the Internet has been used in some main ways. one of this is as an information technology, we can find information in English on websites and I think it is good because we avoid looking for information in our native language, and try to translate it, instead of doing that, reading in English helps us to practice, learn more vocabulary and get familiar with the language we are learning. Another way is as communication technology, it allow us to interactive with other, either with a native speaker or with someone else; and that is great because while communicating we develop our writing and speaking skills because we can be chatting, making calls or sending voice notes through different social networks such as Facebook, Whatsapp, Skipe, etc. Using Internet in ELT increase the motivation of the learners and encourages them to be autonomous as they have the freedom to access to the information found on the Internet.
Something I liked was how social media allow students to communicate with someone who native tongue is different from other, with the purpose of teaching their native language to each other.
In addition, teachers can use Internet as tutor as well as tool. If they use it as tutor it offers advice (they can find a variety of lesson plans focused on different skills), facilitate analysis (offers web-based text and speech corpora and concordances that allow language analysis) and activities (they can fin
many activities such as matching exercises, gap fill, etc. to include in their classes). And for a deeper level the Internet can be use as tool to stimulate creatively ( let students to produce creativity by using different websites) foster communication (allow students to interact with other by using social networks) and collaboration (some social networks are seen as learning sites because they allow communication).
When the Internet is limited or there is no access to it, and we need a document or any other material that we are going to use in our class, we can save them in our computer or in Google Drive, which allows store documents that can be view off-line. Also, if we want to use an audio or video from any website we can download it by using conversion websites, and printed the task that they have if we desire.
I definitely agree with you Wendy. Nowadays, internet offers a wide variety of tools that we can use without internet. It took my attention the part where we can assign to the students homeworks that they can develop in their houses or if there is any difficulty to get access to internet we can carry those tools to the classroom with the simple advices of a flash driver and a computer. To conclude, we need to take in advance these useful tools that internet offers us.
ResponderBorrarI agree with you Wendy, Internet has a lot of sites for teachers, teachers has tools for teach this language in a different way, no its necessary all the time work in a book with technology teacher has different sites for practice speaking, listening, Reading and speaking, students love this method because it's funny and interesting. Yo conclude, teachers and students have this beautiful advantage that is technology and Internet.
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