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Using technology

America Gil Spanish

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Using technology

The technology
- Some keys in education
  - Interactives whiteboards
  - The internet
  - Research tools
  - Power point
  - Free or cheap software
  - Tablet computers and networks
  - Ipods and music
  - Social media
  - Virtual learning enviroment
  - Virtual words
- Digital natives
  - Many of our young students have grown up with 21st-century digital technology
- Digital immigrants
  - Trying hard to catch up and understand
Interactive whiteboards
- Different porpouses
  - Write or draw
  - Change or erase
  - Show images
  - Annotate previously prepared
  - View videos
  - Access the internet
- How can I teach?
  - Fine way to teach
  - Instead of texts work with drawings
  - show what learners have done
  - Integrate inter-material into the lesson
  - Make students love to use or create exercises
- Useful optional periherals
  - Interactive voting buttons
  - Tablet computers
  - Warning notice
Presentation Software
- Product names
  - Power point
  - Keynote
  - Free impress
  - Prezi
- Students using presentation software
  - Present a current news story
  - Research and unlikely topic
  - Make a vocabulary lesson
  - Pecha Kucha
Improving skills
- Listening and speacking
  - Instant language lab
    - podcasts
      - Video conferencing
        integration
- Writing
  - Emails
    - Word processors
      - Wikis
        Blogs
        Social networks
        Websites
        Forums
        Text and voice messaging
- Reading
  - Treasure hunts and web puzzles
    - Webquests
Learning online
- Use two or three words rather than one
- Use quote marks
- Use the minus sign
- Use wild cards
- World clouds
- Visual dictionaries
Brave new worlds
- Teaching in virtual worlds
  - Virtual classroom
  - Virtual field trip
  - Virtual simulation
  - Virtual tasks-based learning