Instructional Technology- Diego Menjivar

Rank 4 This log is based on the article: "ASSESSING LANGUAGE USING COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY" Technology, nowadays is not one thing in our life, now is a fundamental way to support the way that we live. For bad or for good, life is changing according with trending situations. The way that humans become what their are (in society) is through education... So, if technology plays an role like that one in life, and education is what is the key to develop and become, they have to be mixed. The article "ASSESSING LANGUAGE USING COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY" pose, some different ways to develop curricular plans, for example: - "The Language Construct in Relation to Computer-Based Delivery and Response  Technologies"  This part, explains the process that technolgy pass in order to become a useful tool in a world that sometimes is to accustomed to old fashion strategies, for example, El salvador is a third world country that is delayed around 100 years on educational fi...

RANK 4 This blog is based on the articles: "10 Benefits of Getting Students to Participate in Classroom Discussions, Increase Student Interaction with "Think­Pair­Shares" and "Circle Chats" Artistotle said: "Humans beings are social by nature" how can this being get? just an excuse for being talkative or a deep phrase? One of the principal ideas that Artistotle exposed is, how certain comunication is necessary to develop some simple philosophies. There are some researchers that believes that some of the first humans searchers for answers started for a simple question like, why that men is doing that? those types of easy but deep questions are the pioneers, humans develop their social knowledge from the other people. Having clear why the communication is important like teachers to think about in something simply (like the last example) If we have around 35 humans in the same room and we are going to teach them something, would not be better t...

Rank 5 This log is based on the article: "Maximizing the Benefits of ProjectWork in Foreign Language Classrooms" How important is the learning independence?  According with the constructivism, the educational independece plays an important role on students development, the logical is simple, one day students will not have someone telling them what to do, so, they need to learn how to being captable to set activities by themself. The question is: How can teachers create meaninful activities to develop this important skill? The article: "Maximizing the Benefits of ProjectWork in Foreign Language Classrooms" presents some interesting ideas about how project works can be the answer to the previous question. First, The possible expantion that this projects have.... Sometimes, teachers don't develop the projects correctly, when we refer to "project work" the first thing that we have to have clear is that: Students have to be the center of the activ...

THIS LOG IS BASED ON THE ARTICLES: "Online English-English Learner Dictionaries Boost Word Learning" and "Using Technology to Assist in Vocabulary Acquisition and Reading Comprehension". Roberto, a english student, has the task of write an article related with educational trends of the new century, he had studied, investigated and practice a lot, in order to have the correct words for his homework, sadly, in the moment of write, some ideas come to his mind, the problem is that, his native language is spanish, sometimes, Roberto is now in a difficult part, he needs something that can help him to find the correct word to finish.... What is a dictionary? According with Wikipedia: "Is a collection of words in one or more specific languages, often arranged alphabetically, which may include information on definitions, usage, etymologies, pronunciation, translation, etc. or a book of words in one language with their equivalents in another, sometimes known as a le...

Rank 3 This blog is based on the article:"Twenty Ideas for Using Mobile Phones in the Language Classroom" Wilfredo, a 58 old teacher for a little ville on the country side of El salvador, is teaching his routine social studies class to teenegers. All the expirience that Wilfredo has, is helping him to not loss his students attention at all, sadly when wilfredo turns to write something on the board, all the students do the same movement to the beat of the dependency, everybody heads down to "check" a little piece of plastic with lights.... the question is: Can wilfredo do something to changes it? The best way to develop a process, whatever the field that we talk, is through the dependence of the masses, cell phones nowadays became symbiotic, humans can't realize one day without them. This pose one question: It is possible to focus cellphones activity in a really useful way? Let's find out.... Education as I mentioned before, is in that little line be...

Rank 5 This blog is based on the article: "Online Collaborative Writing Using Wikis" When I started to read this article, my childhood came back to me for a while... I remebered my primary school years, one teacher leave us the homework of write our own "personal diary" why? well maybe because this "wiki" activity is that exactly. The same methodology is apply it, the only difference is the technology attraction. According with Richardson A wiki is a website where anyone can edit anything anytime they want (Richardson, 2006). A strategy that can cover all the writing skills is too good to be true. In the article some writing strategies are presented basing the didactical and methodological rate on one simply, but effective, source. First, two of the main ideas are: Improve the writing skill and collaborative writing. But, let's disarm this. Improve writing skill. What can be more atractive than show someone else my own ideas about my o...

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 ...

Rank 4 El salvador, according with some researchers, is stagnant in a old educational culture, to be more specific around 100 years. Thats means that El Salvador in one old age educational didactical country, sadly, this had moved on to the culture that salvadorean people have, a conformist culture of ''Do what you can do'' not ''be better of what you are'' Improvement is the only key to become a better utopic country. The article " "Blending Technologies in ESL Courses" States the necessity that all curriculums should being aware of the technological necessities that the society is asking, to built more captable students that can fullfil the professional demands and perfomence. Also the article presents some issues that are breaking the developmental ESL COURSES processes  That posed up a question... How benefical are the ESL courses for our students? The history had showed us that when a potencial idea is not take it with...

This post is based in the article call:  ''Effectiveness of the integration of ICT tools and activities to foster awareness as the first stage to reach learning autonomy'' by Andrea Ariza and Mario  Suárez Sánchez. RATE 4 Realize for a moment, if we make numbers, 100 years ago, the first world war got started, 70 years ago the first women help to choose a president, 49 years ago the men visited the moon, 40 years ago was the rock age, 30 years ago El salvador were passing for one of the most sad and terrible wars around the world, 20 years ago the computers in a classroom was a really nice dream, 10 years ago this writter has 11 years old, being more deep, around 2 hours ago the same writter was planning what to write in his homework blog. There is a really famous salvadorian phrase that says:  "Even the holies cries the losing time" the time is the only real thing that we can not stop, but we can learn how to focus it. The article states that like teac...

This blog is based in the article " Computers and language learning: an overview by Mark Warschauer and Deborah Healey "  RATE 3 It's interesting if we think in how our grandparents realize the education of the furure, at least, for them, being in a pice of plastic with a lightly pice of more plastic would be a little bit silly to think it. But like the trees in the autumn, we only need a little wind to change everything around.  Education like most of the fields in life are tied to humans appreciation, appreciation that is changing all over itself quickly than humans values sometimes. So, What's does it means? It's means that education needs to ring at the same rythm that humans development, education now ,more than in any other time, is facing a really important and challenging revolution tool call... INTERNET. This tool came to say "Now you don't have any excuses to learn" that poses new questions about how the school's education...