Week 15

Providing feedback in screen captured

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The reading from Russell Stannard entitled: How to Use Technology to Provide Feedback seemed very interesting for me because it provides clear and specific information about how to give feedback in an online method. Personally, I felt impressed because that tool in a modern way to encourage our students to better their assigments instead of give a feedback in a paper. This method is more specific and easy for teachers because in the same moment they are revising the task they are recording the video and explaning to the students their mistakes then they just send the video with the feedback and this is nice because in that way they are expending less time.

Another advantage I can observe is that this tool is an excellent element for the teachers who give classes online, as our actual class with teacher Lorena, is satisfactory to see our teacher explaining why something is not correct or correct instead of receive a feedback in a paper.

I think this type of feedback enhances the undertanding of modern students and because they are fans of technology this helps them to understand better their mistakes, so that all the future teachers shoud use this tool. In my case I did not know anything about screen capture technology but since this momment I think it will be very useful for me in the future and a recomendation for all my colleagues is that they use it in their future as teachers in order to expend less time when revise tasks and have more time to do other activities or things.

Week 14

 Interactive english lessons help a lot!

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THis week reading is very important for me because it is focused on the importance of giving interactive classes. Each reading teach me something new for improve my knowledge about students interest in the classroom and outside of it, how they learn easily and how they feel more interested to achieve one of their goals which is learn a new tongue.

Something I want to remember from this articles is that participation in classes helps a lot each student to improve their skills but also helps teachers to know if a lessons is being well developed.

The activities online to make students participate are also good tools but I felt more interested in the activities of think-pair-share and the ones can be made in power point presentations because these are must developed in the clasroom so that teacher is able to observe the reaction of the student, moreover he or she can see how much the student have in their mind and what can be inproved in the next lesson in order to make them more open minded and keep more ideas in their brain to answer in a more accurate way instead of answer superficially or randomly.

Finally I consider that we as teachers are 50% responsible of  the acquisition and the success of our students so that we have to help them with everything possible.

week 12

The influence of technology and critical thinking on students minds

rate: 4

My initial reaction of this article was attracted for the paragraph because it contains many important questions that we should know in the momment of teaching in order to introduce in our students minds a critical thinking and help them to become analithic people, this with the objective of help them to develop their capacity to understand and reach their own conclussions in the moment they have to work alone. since there is explained the two theories which support intrinsic motivation we are able to know that people has a natural ability or capacity to understand, learn and keep many ideas in their  brains that make them reach more knowledge and to growth mentally. so that as teachers we have to help them to develop their intellect by doing activities that make them think as a debate, or another ones that make them feel motivated and intrested.
Also, there are explained more important factors that are helpful for us as techniques we have to observe in the moment of teaching because is very important to know the type of learners we have and how they work better, sometimes, there are some activities that does not work and instead of make students think it make them feel stressed or bored. Nowadays computers are a more useful tool for teaching to the majority of learners, so we can include a lot of activities that can be heplful to introduce their cognitive skills, analisis and  comprehension like for example audio visual materials as readings or videos. To conclude, I noticed that we should be as careful and intelligents as we can because is our responsability to help our students to become in successful analithic and responsable people.