ICT Blog

 We analyzed in pairs some links that can be useful in education.  1. Education.com 1) Good points of the web from a technological and pedagogical point of view (at least 3 technological [colours, organization, easy to use, easy to locate things] and 3 pedagogical)  It’s free, easy to use, organisation by grade and subject Attractive characters, motivating, and colorful 2) Bad points of the web (at least 3) Games don’t have “instructions” Some games are quite short We need the internet and a computer or tablet 3) Level and age to be used with It could be used for every range of age 4) How you would use the web in your teaching practice It would be nice to use it in Exit tickets activities and also to revise before an evaluation   2. Anglomaniacy 1) Good points of the web from a technological and pedagogical point of view (at least 3 technological [colours, organization, easy to use, easy to locate things] and 3 pedagogical) There are online and printable activities, ...

 The webpages we analyze are the following ones, but I am going to explain a little bit only the Oxford Collocations and the British Council.  This is how our presentation looked and the list of webpages with the link to them.  Cambridge Oxford dictionary Merriam Webster How j say Bbc learning TED talks Urban dictionary British Council In this webpage there are weeks of the word, that appear normally alphabetically ordered. You can click on each word and then It will appear some videos and some examples of how to use the word.    9.  Oxford collocations The problem with this webpage is that for getting most of the words, you have to pay. We can get access online or even buy a book.  Nevertheless, there are some examples like the word "condition". There are several examples of words that we can use with the word "condition", such as adjectives or verbs.  In my opinion, it is more for secondary education, as kids in preschool or even in primary does...

This is the first hot potato exercise that we did in class, but I am not sure whether it works. 

After reading the article "Aydin - 2014 - The Use of Blogs in Learning English", we worked together in groups and we did a summary. This is what we did in our group.  MAIN POINTS: Blogs contribute to gain cultural knowledge, help develop interactions between students and teachers, help improve different skill levels, encourage student’s autonomy, enhance motivation  BENEFITS FOR: Studies on the effects of blogging mainly focus on reading and writing skills and show that blogging enhances these skills. Blogging enhances literacy and critical thinking skills.  Blogs are good for encouraging motivation and autonomous learning. LITTLE BENEFITS FOR:  Reading: “there is little evidence to support that blogs positively affect learners’ reading skills”. Little effect on learners´reading test results NO BENEFITS FOR: listening (can use video, music or audioblogs), accuracy, fluency, pronunciation or language complexity TWO EXAMPLES OF HOW TO USE A BLOG IN A CLASS AND OBJECTIV...

  COGGLE The tool we used to create the mind map, it is called Coggle . We talked about the general digital competence framework and this is how it looked like our final mindmap. As we cannot see it very well, in this link we can find the access to the drive where the image is kept and I am also going to explain what we wrote.  EXPLANATION The information and data literacy characteristics can be divided in the ones for teachers and the other ones for students. Then, it can be divided in foundation, intermediate and advanced, but are going to focus only on intermediate and advanced.  Students Competence 1 . Browsing, searching and filtering data information A) Intermediate Browse Internet to locate information Organize different ways to express information needs Know how to select information, data and digital content B) Advanced Be able to use a range of strategies, when searching for information, data and digital content Know how to filter and manage information, data ...

 

 This is the first blog I am going to create for the class. https://www.linguee.com