Technology in the classroom II

To coontinue with my previous post, I have chosen to post an article that I have found really interesting. It is regarding technology in the classroom, the importance of including it and how to do it. Teachers are sometimes afraid on including technology, this is just because they feel uncomfortable with it or because they do not know hot to implement it. Here you can find some ideas to start with...https://www.theguardian.com/teacher-network/2014/may/13/modern-foreign-languages-technology-tools-students-fluent

Technology in the classroom

I'm going to share my experience as a teacher using technology inside a classroom. Nowadays we, as teachers, are asked no to let students use their mobiles inside the classroom which, by the way, I find ridiculous since this device is immersed in our society and students are the ones who use them more. From my point of view we have to take advantage from their knowledge on technology, use devices as a tool and not forbbide them since they may result incredible useful inside the classroom. Last year I started trying to insert this device in the classroom by asking students to download some apps to use in class like "Oxford, English-English dictionary". As a result I got really engaged students who were happy because this "forbbiden device" was now at their disposal and it was not a sin to use it in class.

 This year I decided to go further, I started using google docs to share ideas and to do homework online. I'm using it with my students from 1st, 2nd and 6th year in secondary school. The result has been great up to now. I have more engaged students, homework is really easy to correct, I just add some comments from my laptop and then we discuss in class.They can also work from their mobile phones or tablets. They can take all the files in there. Next step is to create presentations from google docs, I will try to work on the reader we are about to start reading through google... let's see how it goes...

FLA

Here I leave a link of an article that gives us a crealy description on FLA. It has also included a video on "Behaviouris second language acquisition" which is really clear and useful.

https://www.simplypsychology.org/language.html