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