Week 6

Teaching second foreign language with different tools (Gabriela orellana)

I really like this reading because is very important for us learn about our students. Technology and teaching techniques have been evolving rapidly in recent years and teacher must use all tools necessary to help their students to develop their skills. mechanical exercises and traditional fill in the blank, true or false and multiple choice assessments does not interest students. It is very different use other material, For example, videos for teaching listening skill, vocabulary.  Also, teachers can creative videos according their topic. Sometimes, students have the skill to learn through the visual, they remember more easily the topic. Moreover, speaking is other skill very important because pupils must to produce the language. In this case the technology has recourses to practice a lot. such as software where students can correct their mistakes, they learn to express without fear and they can have the opportunity to give their critical thinking. Also, speech recognition technology, 'the ability of a machine to process spoken input and respond, enables CALL software to include active participation in speech production, oral reading, and limited conversation in the range of language activities available to students. Having imitated models several times, the learners can actually record their own speech and compare this with the models. The program is able to detect significant deviation from a master's word phrase utterance production and offers visual aids and a written diagnosis of the problem as well as indications on how to overcome and correct the error.

 To conclude, teacher can use a lot of thing to creative a funny class and remember that we must have the attention of our students. They can learn easier if the topic is very interest for them.

Week 5

 Learning to be analyze (Gabriela Orellana)

This week article was very interesting and I really like it. It present information about how technology influence in many ways the critical thinking skills of learners.This article was by Ken Bain. Intrinsic is the abilities that students acquire along the learning´s process where learners acquire new knowledge in different way. Sometimes students feel nervous or afraid to express something because their opinion can be wrong. in this case the teacher must implement activities Where students say their own critical thinking do not matter if they are wrong because everybody think very different. Also,Teacher must creative with topics very interesting for them.However, I believe that students can use computers for learn to make analyze. Sometimes make analises is very complicated because not everyone has this ability.Moreover, In the internet they can find a lot of exercises to develop this skill, but the motivation is very important because teachers must help students to feel comfortable if teachers let students feel free to thinks and make análisis students wouldn't be afraid to express themselves. In conclusion, As future teachers we must change our methods and leave behind the traditionalism where only the teacher is right because the student can also express himself without any problem.in fact, what teachers do is to make students memorises things and just complete book without letting students having a critical thinking.

week4

There are advantages and disadvantages to use the internet(Gabriela orellana)

I really like this Reading because it is very important for everybody. Moreover, The internet is very useful to students. The Reading are mentioned some important point about the internet. For example, the internet as tutor, it is interesting because there are a lot of sites offer lessons on english. Also, the sites help students to improve their vocabulary , grammar and other. Some traditional activities are gap-fill, multiple-choice and matching but, now there are more activities. For example, Free rice that help students in grammar. Furthermore, The internet as tool, you can have the opportunity to talk with native speakers or other learners. The pupil can commmunicate for social networking sites like Facebook, email, Skype and other. In my opinión, the use of the internet is good because the teacher do not spend money on materials. Besides, Students spend more time on a computer than in a book because they think that the interntet is everything like  their Second Life. On the other hand, the Internet has disadvantages. For example, Maybe that not everybody has internet in their houses so, if the teacher want to use the internet with students Will be kind of difficult.