This topic is a little bit hard to present, the main reason why I said "hard" is that every one is a world of ideas, methods , definitions, sense of what is ok to do and what not to.
(ok this is my opinion of course after being reading opinions of both sides about it)Here we go my friends, ok first the things we need to consider to make it a valid way to develop a nice and complete teaching, that I have seen that usually influye to create negative opinion about this; Is the economic range from the school and student, talking about the quantity the school can spend in technology, the earning salary for teachers and the low use of source of the internet as a common service.
Those cases are the more common in latin america, but talking about my personal case and the one in my university is not a problem, talking serious now getting inside the topic, the use of technology is a most useful and close to infinity tool to learn. of course putting your live on it, being relationated with.
the real use of a blog in the way of learning is good, just being inside, don't lefth it writing and getting readers, discussions and a learning close to the real wanted.
lets expose the principal most commons declaration from both sides :
<-> The group that support it use
- Use a blog makes education focus on demand
- Use technology helps to study any time, every where
- Using a blog encourages to learn/work continuosly
- The use a blog helps to reflects and thinck critically
- Blogging helps improve communications components
- Blogging helps develop initiative and creativity
- Blogging helps people to learn to work with people
- Blogging makes learning more personal
- Blogging opens the learning ways in favorable sides
- Blogging encourages students to use new tools
- Blogging makes learning/working/living come together
<-> The group that rejects it use
- Use a blog makes to lose the control in the way it takes the learning from the teacher sides all the time
- Use technology requires much time in order to edit make take an idea and also to check out the progress
- Using a blog generates incompatibility issues talking about the most common evaluation ways(curriculum)
- Teachers are not paid enough to spend all their free time learning to use new digital tools and implementing them
- Not all students want to participate in the use of online tools
- Technology does not have a place in classrooms where teachers have not been adequately trained in its implementation
-Most teacher do not consider a valid teaching method
- Not always appropriate materials for students
A so nicely made and recomend artitle that talk about it:“Use of Technology in English Language Teaching and Learning”: An Analysis.- Solanki D. Shyamlee1+ , M Phil.
if you want to know a more professional word about it the name is a link.
Enjoy it
written by Sergio Alejandro Villa Aviña is all a pleasure if you have some plus info please comment.
