How technology has changed the life of our digital natives...

I recently saw it when my seven-years old nephew asked his father to buy him a computer for his birthday to play some videogames and chat with his classmates.

pecha-kucha

             

Useful for our future pecha-kucha presentations for Phonetics IV.
It seems rather difficult because it demands a lot of time of rehearsal but it is good to make interesting and engaging presentations. The timing helps you decide what information to include, which must be concrete and clear. I think it will help me a lot to improve my fluency. So, let´s do it!

Make a Presentation Like Steve Jobs

                                           

Useful tips to take into account when making any kind of presentations =)

More on Google Docs...

      I thought face to face interaction was the only way to work succesfully in groups. But now that I have started my teaching practice and I don't have too much time to do groupwork, I realized that if it hadn't been for Google Docs, I don't know how we could have done all the works we had to do for this week.
We were very busy these days, that's why we used this new tool for everything: ECO I, ECO II, Literatura and Phonetics!  And it worked quite well...!  =)

"The times are changing"

Reflection: This video shows us how education changed as the time went by. When I saw it I remembered Workshop I, when the teacher asked us to say the qualities a teacher should have. The first words that came into my mind were: patient, flexible, creative...but most important of all a good teacher should go on studying, updating their knowledge so as to be able to adapt to any classroom. Now I understand that no matter if I like or not using technology in my lessons, if I find it difficult because I´m a digital immigrant; I must adapt to it. If I don´t want to be like my English teacher at secondary school, I  have to cope with these new technological developments to improve and adapt my teaching practice to the digital natives.
So...there we go...

Google Docs.

Working on Google Docs for the PW...

I had always thought that face to face interaction was the best way of doing group assignements, but when we had to do our first PW for ECO II the restrictions of time were a major problem, specially because the members of the group were from different locations. We got together once to do the pw, but it was not enough. Although we worked on Google Docs, I only discovered how useful it was when we had to finish the practical at home. At home I had several doubts regarding some instruction and grammatical expressions, but it gave me the chance to be more confident as regards my knowledge . Working on Google Docs let us edit the work as many times as possible taking into account the opinion of all the participant that had edited it.
Good for saving time we spent travelling from town to town!

On digital natives, digital immigrants...

Definetely, I´m the second one...=/