I have found a very interesting text that may be of interest to many, it is AUTONOMOUS LEARNING AND COMPETENCES by the NATIONAL CONGRESS OF PEDAGOGY. The text is in Spanish, however here is the pdf

http://www.konradlorenz.edu.co/images/stories/vice_academica/Aprendizaje_Autonomo_y_Competencias.pdf

Levels of a Autonomous Learning (Nunan, 1997)

I have found important information that I think may be useful to you in your homework.

Rubric

Today the teacher explain Rubric, a page very useful that you can use to do auto evaluations. Here there are many topics that you can learn, like:

Here you can read informaion about what is it.

And here is the link  of the page, visit it.

take care!

Parts of the Speech

Hot Seating

Warm up: We played a game in which they counted the numbers from 1 to 13 in turns, and the one who makes mistakes happens in front of doing a penance.

Introduction: They started to talk about the parts of the speech (noun, adjectives, pronouns, verbs, articles, adverbs, conjuctions interjections and prepositions).

Practice: We developed photocopies with activities about.

Production: We played "hot seating" by four groups.

Review: They gave us photocopies for homework.

Group by: Paula, Camila and Juan José.

Here is interesting information about this topic.

History of English

In this post I want to share with you a video I saw in an English class 1 which speaks and explains the history and origins of the English language, the video is fascinating, it is a great way to expand knowledge and learn a little about different cultures , I hope you are interested in seeing it and enjoy it. :D

here is the link if you need it.

Adjectives / Nationalities and Countries

Costumes

Warm up: They gave us pictures with cartoons and we had to guess the named and write a characteristic of the cartoon.

Introduction: They started to talk about adjectives.

Practice: We did an activity in a page named AgendaWeb.com and practiced new vocabulary.

Production: We played "costumes" and we had to guess the character.

Review: We developed a photocopy with different activities.

Group by: David, Fernanda, Luisa and yilver.

Puppets

Warm up: We played a game named "broken phone".

Introduction: they introduce us to the topic.

Practice: We saw a video and respond to questions about.

Production: They used the puppets and it was so funny. :)

Review: We watch a video.

Group by: Alejandra, Tania, Nicolle, Yorlexi.

Daily Routine / Parts of the House

Freeze Frame

Warm up: we play a game named "heads up"

Introduction: They talked about vocabulary in daily routines, like: study routine, gym routine, work routine, etc.

Practice: To practice they gave us photocopies with some pictures with actions that you do in daily routines, and we have to write under what action was.

Production: we played "Freeze Frame" and we have to guess the daily routine in groups

Review: They show a video about the theme.

Group by: Santiago, Melanie and Maria José

Roll on the Wall (my group)

Warm up: We gave them a paper with the name of a room and made a list of objects that were in it.

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Introduction: We start tto explain the theme with sladeshows.

Practice: We gave photocopies to the students with four different points to develop.

Production: We played "Roll on the wall".

Review: We play "hang-up" with the new vocabulary.

Group by: Natalia, Nicolás y Cristian

Profesions and Occupations / Parts of the City

Props

Warm up: They gave to us photocopies with the lyrics of a song with incomplete sentences, and we had to listen the song and complete it.

Introducion: They talked about professions and occupations, for example: actor, author, chaf, doctor, dentist, shop assistant, nurse, farmer, teacher, policeman/policewoman, manager, etc.

Practice: To practice the new vocabulary we talked with our classmates about our parent's profession or occupation.

Review: We had to identify professions and occupations from pictures.

Group by: Alejandro, Tatiana and Ana María.

Magic Carpet

Warm up: we did a game named "snake" and the students wrote verbs in the board by teams.

Introduction: We talk about diferent places in the city.

Practice: They give to us photocopies with parts of the city and we practice new vocabulary.

Review: We have to say the part of the city showed on the board.

Group by: Mauro, Laura and Maria Paula.

Teaching Through Drama

This is a very useful strategy for teachers, and more for us, who are future teachers. There are differents games by which you can help students with their learning and at the same time have a pleasant and interactive time.

Here they are some, like:

• Improvisation
• Role Play
• Costume
• Props
• Freeze Frame
• Puppets
• Slow Motion
• Thought Tracking
• Sound Tracking
• Paired Conversation
• Magic Carpet
• Mirroring
• Miming
• Hot Seating
• Modelling
• Role on the Wall
• Conscience Alley
• Performance

After reviewing each one in a deeper way, the teacher distributed eight of these games in eight different groups, which are in charge of making an exhibition on x theme using the game that corresponded to him.

I'm with Cristian and Nicolas, and we correspond to Role on the wall, wish luck!. :D

Expo's day (#2)

Today the expositions about the pages finished. And here i'm going to give you all the pages (some are apps) where you can learn, practice, study, and play about diferent topics in many funny and interactive ways. There are six in total. This is really important to the autonomous process and you must highlight it.

#1 Memrise
#2 LearnEnglish
#3 My English Pages
#4 EnglishClub
#5 Saber Inglés
#6 Learn English Online

April 06

Today class still continues with the theme of "learning techniques". So, in this entry I will mention different aspects that I consider important in this regard. I hope you can consider useful

Tips: 

-Don’t study after 11.00p.m.

-Divide time equally between subjects.

-Put a copy somewhere to keep parents informed.

-Revise your study timetable/things change.

-Stick to it. 

-Organising subject matter efficiently.

-Getting ongoing day to day work and assignments done.

-Researching and revising work for exams.

-Record your plan of attack for each session.

-Practise skills learned by doing problems, exercises and essays.

-Aim to build a clear understanding by connecting areas of knowledge.

-These sessions are the backbone of your Study Programme.

Three Study Techniques

Acronymic Sentences

Use the first letter from words that you need to remember later, and make a sentences with them.

Ex: The days of the week

Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday.

      :Sarah makes tea when things feel sad.

Using Acronyms

Is a good method for remembering things an any order.

T,S,O,I,P,C → TOPICS, TIPCOS, PICOTS, COPITS.

Using Pegwords

# word                     Pegword

one                                x

two                           through

three                        tree

four                          door

five                           dive

Study Techniques

Today we learn about study techniques. These are very important, the students who follow these methods learn more easily, retain material for longer periods of time.

The teacher explain to us some study techniques like:

-Play attention to the class in order to understand the topics complete.

-Take notes to remember ideas in class.

-Always be organize. 

-Ask questions in you don't have clear idea.

-Plan a study time everyday.

Here is a chart about which learning techniques works by CFA.

I hope this can be usefull for your study times.

After... my classmates Luisa and Annie shows to us a page/app named Duolingo, it's very usefull and fun, here is the link to the app, and here is the link to the page.

that's all for this entry.

xoxoxo

Expo's day

The last Tuesday i couldn't attend class because a domestic calamity, my cousin died and i was in his funeral at that time. So, sorry for just making only one entry this week, but I'll reward you next week by making more entries.

So, this entry is about Thursday's class. I wanted to catch up in class, so I asked my friend Santiago what were we supposed to do for Thursday?, he told me that we should make an expo about an online page where we could learn using our different styles of learning.

We choose eslgamesplus.com, you can in if you want, this is a excelent a so funny page and you can find diferent types of games about diferent topics and learn with that.We were the firstt group to present the expo. I sincerely think it was very good, we explained the page and then we played with our classmates. We laughed and had a good time.After us, some other groups exposed their pages, and they show us different pages with different ways of learning, i don't remmember the page's names in this moment, but i promise that in the next entry i will give you the names. It was a very fun class, we did diferent activities


I hope that the pages be useful for you guys, and thats all for today.


Take care. ;)

10 Reasons to Implement Technology in the Classroom

1) If used correctly, will help prepare students for their future careers, which will inevitably include the use of wireless technology.

2) Integrating technology into the classroom is definitely a great way to reach diversity in learning styles.

3) It gives students the chance to interact with their classmates more by encouraging collaboration.

4) Technology helps the teachers prepare students for the real world environment. As our nation becomes increasingly more technology-dependent, it becomes even more necessary that to be successful citizens, students must learn to be tech-savvy.

5) Integrating technology in education everyday helps students stay engaged. Today’s students love technology so they are sure to be interested in learning if they can use the tools they love.

6) With technology, the classroom is a happier place. Students are excited about being able to use technology and therefore are more apt to learn.

7) When mobile technology is readily available in the classroom, students are able to access the most up-to-date information quicker and easier than ever before.

8) The traditional passive learning mold is broken. With technology in the classroom the teacher becomes the encourager, adviser, and coach.

9) Students become more responsible. Technology helps students take more control over their own learning. They learn how to make their own decisions and actually think for themselves.

10) Student can have access to digital textbooks that are constantly updated and often more vivid, helpful, creative, and a lot cheaper than those old heavy books.

If your school is still debating using the latest technology, I hate to break it to you, but it’s the inevitable future of education anyways. It is important that school wireless networks keep up with the ever changing technology in order to keep up with our students. From the ease of communicating with their teachers via e-mail, to quickly accessing an overabundance of information online about a particular topic they have learned about in class, technology is needed in today's classroom.

Web 2.0 / Create your own blog

WEB 2.0

The last thursday's topic was Web 2.0 and the professor shows to the class a creative, dinamic and funny video about.

Web 2.0 includes websites that facilitate the sharing of information with user-centered design in an interactive, participatory and dynamic manner with collaboration on the World Wide Web.

This is the new generation of the internet, and all these sites use collective intelligence to provide interactive services on the network where the user has control to publish their data and share it with others, so, it's a very useful tool for us, the students, because we can use it to development our autonomous learning



Create your own blog

Then in class the professor introduce us to Blogger, and we have to create a new g-mail account and the a blog about our process of autonomous learning and here i am :D

i hope that this blog be helpful for the readers and you can use for development your own autonomous learning.

Learning Styles

The theme of last tuesday's class was Learning Styles

Learning styles refers to the preferential way in which student absorbs, processes, comprehends and retains information. Individual learning styles depend on cognitive, emotional and environmental factors, such as the experience of each individual. 

It's important understand the differences in learning styles, to implement best practice strategies into the daily activities.

Likewise exist three tipes of learning styles:

1. Visual: Use images, maps and graphics to access and understand new information.

2. Auditory: Use music, sound and rhythms to access and understand new information.

3. Kinesthetic: Use body, hands and sense of touch to access and understand new information.


Then the professor give us a test to discovering our own learning style and my results were:

Visual: (9) points = Less frequently used modality.
Auditory: (14) points = Preferred learning style.
Kinesthetic: (13) points = Frequently used modality.

Now that i know which is my learning style, i'm going to start to implement new strategies for my learning.

Test link: http://www.brainboxx.co.uk/a3_aspects/pages/vak_quest.htm

That's all for the entry. :3