As usual in me I take my weekends to reflect and then post,this week really made me reflect about planning and organizing when working with one- computer-classroom,specially after reading the article I mentioned in the discussion from Dimitrios Thanasoulas."What is a Learner Autonomy and How Can It Be Fostered?"and the one from Samuel P-H Sheu "Learner Autonomy:Bird in-the-hand or Bird- in- the-bush?."
I was tempted to work on this discussion until I found they were both so interrelated from my point of view that I could not separate them ,so I decided to participate in the one-computer classroom discussion ,because I needed to learn more about it.
Quoting Dr Deborah Healey :"Bad teaching will not disappear with the addition of technology,no matter how advanced the technology is.Good teaching will benefit from it ".Her words were so important for me,I work as a mentor teacher in my aerea and I feel we do not exactly know if the bird is in our hands or in the bushes, to follow Prof.Sheu reflections on the topic.
I teach High School Grades and usually find students who have had a bad experience when learning and they have quit trying ,they just repeat mechanically to pass the tests ,so I have always felt as a challenge to " lower their affective filter" with the language and start again,having them feel differently about the language,enjoy it,have fun with it ,technology has helped me a lot these last years with this challenge .Nevertheless,not well planned one-computer classes,may provoke all the "birds"fly away from learning...
Thanks for listening
Maria Elena
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