Dear classmates,
I'm Anna Alcázar and I would like to share with you the class report of our last ICT lesson.
How can we take advantage of ICT resources in
order to improve language skills?
Last lesson with Aoife Garry was pursuing an answer to this question.
However, before going further with listening, speaking, reading and writing, we
had a moment to reflect about the role of the teacher and ICT and, after
watching a video about the 21st century skills (known as the 4 C's of Education), we led to the conclusion that
there are skills such as High Order Skills of Bloom’s Taxonomy (Evaluation,
Creation and Analysis) that can not be learned just by checking information.
Consequently, the teacher should take advantage of ICT resources in order to
teach processing skills and avoid a transmissionist approach.
Secondly, it was really emphasized the fact that ICT should not be used to
entertain students, their strength is that they may be useful to engage
children. New technologies expose the students to a wide and rich variety of
resources and authentic materials that can contribute to motivate them and to
foster meaningful and complex learning.
Finally, we went to a further research of possible resources that are
suitable to work on language skills in the English classroom: Skype, News,
Podcasts and Youtube. Especially, we shared interesting websites and activities
that could be done for a listening activity taking into consideration the
pre-listening and post-listening moments as well.
I hope this class report may be useful for you.
Best,
Anna Alcázar
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