WEEK 7: INTEGRATING INTERNET IN THE WRITING SYLLABUS
Wednesday, March 1st,
2017
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What
surprised me in this article was how to incorporate this online component into
the curriculum. Teachers should consider students´ level of English before
giving them a lecture so that, they would not be struggling with the vocabulary
and it will seem reachable. Also, Students should be instructed in the use
computers before using it with an educational purpose. They should know how to
operate the Internet browser, how to search for sites using a search engine,
how to save sites or print them out, how to copy information and paste it into
a word-processing program, and should have necessary typing skills.
Moreover, the role of the teacher in a
wired classroom is essential. Teachers
should be extremely prepared. They
should have examined the content of the sites that students are going to view.
They should have some emergency lessons to do in case of a connection
breakdown. And also they need to be monitoring students' work to verify if the
viewing material students are accessing is appropriate or not for them. And to develop a proficient online lesson, there
are some elements which are indispensable.
Teachers should have his
disposal a computer lab with Internet access. The speed of the connection
should be enough to be utilized by the whole class without having a connection
breakdown.
Something
that made me want to read more about the topic was how to incorporate writing
to students without seems it as an assignment.
Assignment such as writing a letter to a friend can be meaningful for
students. But, teachers firstly need to give necessary instruction of the task, the time they will have to
complete the activity. Also, teacher
should give students the information or phrases they can use to connect one
idea with another. Writing a formal letter, as before, the instructions should
be given before the activity and the resources they will use. Keep in mind
that, teachers should give the necessary instruction of the task students are
able to do. It might seem so difficult to engage students to write because they think writing is boring,
but make them be part a discussion of an
any current problem of the society or
let them give suggestions of a
topic they feel interested.
Something I learned from this article
and that every teacher should know was that the
most difficult part of constructing the reading hobby is the lack of practicing
of the foreign language to develop the vocabulary needed to rapid growth in English
proficiency. Also frustration is the one of the major problem students face
when reading because they are force to stop the lecture to look for the meaning
of a word interrupting the continuity of reading.
Additionally,
the reading material teachers decide to use in the classroom in pretty
important to take into consideration. There exists a great amount of websites
that offer a wide range of materials, topics, difficulty levels and
sophisticated illustrations sometimes accompanied by oral readings with
animations. Even if one's EFL students don't have easy access to the Internet,
it is possible for teachers with Internet access to download and print out
materials for student use.
Hello Will,
ReplyDeleteYour reflection this week is full of highly important points which I definitely share with you. just as you pointed out reading should not be a burden. When I read this article about Internet-based literature for children the rule of five fingers they proposed became one of my teacher's life moto "If five fingers are raised before completing the page, the book is probably too
difficult and the child should select another" (p.2). What do you think of this way to find out the difficulty level of reading material?