Principles of Technology Use in Educational Setting/ Vitual Trips and Google Earth

Technology use will provide realistic motivation for content-area teachers to steadily integrate technology into the classroom.

Know your Students:

 In order to use It on an ongoing basis in your lessons, it is important to become familiar with your own students´familiarity with tecnology. Teachers cannot expect students to learn technology and English and content all at the same time.

Choosing Materials: 

Teachers need to be aware of creating tasks that fit the students. It materials allow students to apply their knowledge of their world to content and language learning tasks.

• Prepoduction Stage: Choosing technology that supports text with images such as photos, graphs, or charts is highly advisable since it links text with its visual representation and acts equally as a mnemonic device.
• Early Production Stage: Promote vocabulary, grammar and listening acquisition such as exercise builders, as well as digital stories, audios podcasts and online videos is recommended since all ELLs will go through a silent period when learning English. It is important to create language rich opportunities to further their listening comprehension strategies.
• Intermediate Fluency Stage: It is important to use ITs that promote speaking, reading and writing skills such as synchronous VolPs, online elaborate texts and process writing tools such as writeboard.com.
• Speech Emergent Stage: Promote an ELLs CALP, in other words, their subject-specific language ability. This include websites or VLE that combines multiple links to e-communication tools, e- listening tools, e-creation tools, and e-assessment tools.
• Student Working with Technology:Students to work collaboratively in pairs or small groups where they can engage in interactive problem-solving or cooperative projects.

Language Use: 
Especially in networked collaborative interactions, use emails, bulletin boards, and chat rooms has been found to promote lively exchanges between native and non-native speakers in addition to fostering scaffolding of ideas and grammar. Foster collaborative communication among students has been showen to foster proficiency in all language skill areas. The trick for teachers is to try to create IT activities that foster both types of interaction-communicatively accurate interactions and communiatively effective interactions.

Challenges of Technology Use in Classrooms:

•          Potential fustrations
•          Technical difficulties
•          Classroom control

You will find about the methodology in this presentation by Professor Sussan Carranza

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Vitual Trips and Google Earth


Is a guided exploration through the world wide web that organizes a collection of pre-screened, thematically based web pages into a structured online learning experience.





Presentation about Virtual Trips and Google Earth

Is a free tool that presents geological and geographical images together with satellite imagery in a dramatic fashion. It allows teachers to fly anywhere on the face of the Earth and view maps, terrain, buildings and monuments up close in 3D, track the courses of rivers and view changes taking place on our little blue planet.