I am very excited about the prospect of making other cultural settings more accessible to my students through the more efficient use of technology for education that I have been working with this summer.
For example, I have already created a collaborative Wiki space because I just absolutely love the idea of having an online collaborative community where work, ideas and comments can be shared. I think that it will help to build and strengthen relationships in my classes as well as provide an organized format for class activities.
I think that exposure to new types of technology is an excellent way for our students to construct their own meaning and make choices about how to use the technology for projects and assessments. In my classes, they will also need to visit different sites on the internet in order to research and develop their virtual 'Madrid' identies. For example, they will look for apartments and use tools like Google Earth to see the precise location. They will create these identities and use that context to practice the language communicatively.
I think the greatest thing about using more diverse tech tools in our classrooms is that the students can relate to these tools in that they are of the internet generation and they will need to be proficient in using a variety of tech tools during their lives, so we are provided them with valuble skills that can be applied in any profession that they choose.
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I agree that technology is an exciting tool in the classroom - especially the L2 classroom to, as you said, strengthen those cultural connections. I also agree that technology use is a great way to hold student interest in our modern world.
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