Instructional Technology- Diego Menjivar

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become little, not because it has change fisically, beacause it seems that the imagination of how big the world is, now is obsolete, why?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...