Instructional Technology- Diego Menjivar

ARTICLE 1 Rank 5 This blog is based on the article "Using Internet­Based Children's Literature to Teach EFL" It is funny when like adults we see children around 5 to 7 years old in the bus, street etc.. reading every single announcement that they find, the funniest part is that, we can only appreciate this phenomenon in children with that age, maybe because like most of the beings, when a new ability borns, it is interesting to apply it, but with the pass of the years, this become routine. Today, basing my analisys in the article, I'm going to try to show you a interesting way to not lose that desire in our students. The article starts showing us the importance of integrate reading skills in educational processes, some of the evidence that it proves can be find in students needs... for example, Learn grammar in context, see interaction, bus most important the vocabulary increase. Most of the time, classes are not enough to achive the vocabulary that students

Rank 4 This post is based in the article: "The Employment of CALL iin Teaching Second/Foreign Language Speaking Skills" 10 years ago, go to the computer lab meant, learn how to use the computer, and actually that was enough, because maybe curriculums never expect that in 10 years later, what schools paid for learn, how to use a pice of plastic, will be able to learn through a smaller pice of plastic (Cellphones) Nowadays, technology become one of the most important tool when education we talk, it almost had become symbiotic. but thanks to that evolution, Andresito will be happy to know that now go to the computer lab means learn a subject through strategies and his knowledge will develop in the areas that he needs to become useful. The article teaches us two types of dimensions that are the ones that shows interesting statements realted with how to teach different skills through technology. 1) Mechanical dimension:  According with the article, this dimension can be

This log is based in the article "Critical Thinking and Technology" RATE 3 The reason why is important to have critical thinking students. -Most of the time, like routines beings, we are so stick to what do we have to, do or maybe, what are we looking for, that we forget if we walking in the way that is meaningful for me... -Sometimes, humans are so stick to their routine that they looks for an "escape" alternative to make their life tolerable, the problem becomes when the "escape" becomes important than the reality... Those are some very simple examples of why is important to develop critical thinking, becaouse maybe we had not realizes but, all those "routines beings" were students in a time, and they are the result of a bad personal skills development. Humans, as can be read in the article, are developed animals, that can be molded through what the person like, but what is special in that? it's obviously right? well what is diffe

RANK 4 This blog is based in the article:" CALL Me…Maybe: A Framework for Integrating the Internet into ELT" Sometimes, as third world country citizens, we can not realize how big the world can be... Or maybe that was an idea of past centuries... Nowadays, the world become little, not because it has change fisically, beacause it seems that the imagination of how big the world is, now is obsolete, why? well the answer is one word... INTERNET, now everybody can be what they want (Without knowing even a bit of the topic) but, like every little thing in life, all it's tied to the prespective and utility that can offer. Education, it's the principal field in humans life that is under the responsability to change according with how the world moves... It's logic, just think a second, education, in all the educational types that exists (Formal, informal, extraodinary, ETC)  is the process in how the humans become useful for society, It's ilogic that the only