29/11 - ICT in Foreign Language Teaching

Hello! This class was focused on ICT (“information and communication technologies”). Technologies have many benefits such as they give you real information, you can carry out your own process and you can also explore creativity. However, it also has disadvantages, for instance, in some cases it is dangerous for children or they may become aggressive and competitive. Therefore, technology is not the objective, but rather we have to create many creative things so that we have many materials for children.

Furthermore, the use of ICT in teaching and learning can be approached in three ways: learning about ICT (where teachers and children develop skills and knowledge about the potential uses of ICT to support learning), learning with ICT ((teachers and children use ICT resources to support the classroom curriculum) and learning through ICT (teachers and children use ICT to transform the teaching and learning process, learning in new ways)

Finally, we were looking at different applications, among them are blogs since these are very useful for children because they can publish their activities and their parents and the rest of the students can see them. Other applications that Maribel taught us and I were not familiar with were Google Form, with which we have done an activity, Padlet, and Storybird, with which we have also created a book. Consider that as future teachers we have to know many applications to give more resources to students since technology is increasingly present in classrooms.