ON THE WAY TO TECHNOLOGY CHALLENGES

By Fernando AmadoRichmond ELT Trainer

Technology?

Have you ever been in such situation???

Let’s watch….

Back to the Future

Now (Skype)

Remember?

NOW!!!

Do you know?

• Walkman• Compact Disc• Blueray• DVD• CD• HDMI• Internet

• Smart….• iPhone – iPad• Flat screen• Videoconference• Chat• Mouse• Web

Technology is changing the world

Take a look….

And…. Teaching?

Technology changes all the time

• So, how has technology changed our lives?– We don’t have time to waste!– Better graphics, more realistic– Different ways to communicate– Closer relationship with other cultures

What do we need?

• Students now have a smaller attention span: it’s the era of better graphics!

• No time to waste.

• Entertainment + learning.

Getting your students’ attention

• Each teacher has his/her own way of starting a class: with a song, with a prayer, with a game.

• Why not with an online resource?

• Increase your students’ general culture or prepare a little game for them.

Day in the history

www.history.com/this-day-in-history

Video and a list of events that happened that

day

You can choose the date

What’s the weather like today?

• http://weather.yahoo.com/peru/lima-metropolitan-area/lima-418440/?unit=c

Be a weather reporter

• Begin your class asking about the weather.• Open the weather website.• One student will be the weather reporter.• Other students will be callers, asking for the

weather report in their cities.

Word of the day

www.superkids.com/aweb/tools/words/wod.shtml

Train game

• Opening English class has to be an event! Students are supposed to get motivated for learning.

• The simplest things can have a great effect on your kids.

• History, for example, gives them general knowledge. Cross-curricular activities are always enriching.

Take those bits of information and use the grammar or vocabulary behind it: weather, tenses, new words.

Remember, everything must have a purpose: have them make a presentation, sentences or a game!

Shortcuts!

Motor skills

Digital books

Find it

Saving time

• No time for anything, no time to waste.

• The illusion of speeding up.

• Shortcuts are everywhere.

Entertainment + learning

Draw something!

Spelling bee – literally!

Entertaining AND educational?

• They don’t have to know.

• Make your classes unforgettable.

• Put a twist in it!

WEST

Win them over

Entertain them, but teach them

Shortcuts

Incorporate technology

Remember

• Our students are digital natives.• They have a real and virtual social life.• We live in a global village.• Technology is changing the education.• We have to teach our students life skills.• We have to adapt to modern times, times can

not adapt to us.

Final Considerations

ReflectThink

Take risks

Don’t be afra

id of technology

The principle goal of education is to create men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.

JEAN PIAGET