New Learning Environment at my institution

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This is an important attempt given that the school where I work is too traditionalist. What I propose is to implement a Virtual Language Resource Center that I designed in order to help my students to enhance their English skills, besides in that way children can be able to experiment other ways for learning and not to be dependant of the teacher and the work in the classes, they can go beyond by exploring by themselves the activities proposed in the VLRC, what help them to develop autonomy and reflection about what they want and what they need to learn.

The idea of this project is also to motivate learners to be involved in their own learning, due to the fact that technology is now an important tool that catches students' interests and that open different doors for many practices and information.

Coping With Emerging Technologies

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Technologies are always changing; day by day they are improving with more advanced tools and software. Technology involves effective communication which is an important tool to face the challenges for technological changes, people who are always sharing with others and exploring what technology offers, are up-to-date because they have the possibility to know what is new and how to deal with that, with is the product of effective communication.

Nowadays technology became an essential tool for high level education, for the school and also for the industry (enterprises) given that being trained for using emergent technologies is a matter of being part of the competent world, and people who are engaged with technology are supposed to be able to face challenges of the new networked world due to the fact that they are exposed to more information about the world.

Talking about the internet, and taking into account that it is a competitive totally different environment is necessary to establish a few rules among people who use it to develop learning environments because in that way it can be useful for learners and also for teachers to face the “emergent” characteristic of the internet; after establishing those rules of participations, it is possible to apply emergent technologies such as messaging, gaming, peer-to-peer sharing as a language learning strategy for catching learners' interests of the millennial generation.

References:

BECTA, (2008). Emerging technologies for learning. Retrieved June 4, 2010 from

http://partners.becta.org.uk/upload-dir/downloads/page_documents/research/emerging_technologies08-2.pdf

Prensky, M. (2008). The role of technology. Retrieved June 4, 2010 from

http://www.marcprensky.com/writing/Prensky-The_Role_of_Technology-ET-11-12-08.pdf