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Technology covenants (Short term activity)
Students should the taught to make use of technology responsibly. This should be never taken for granted. That is why a set of rules will be discussed in order to have a good behaviour when using technology. This activity will be held on June 6, 7 and 8. -
Being a teacher Mentor (short term actvity)
Students should trust teachers along with the information and state-of-the-art resources they bring to the class to present it. To gain this confidence, teachers should be conversant with the use of technology so that their students can trust them. That is why during the rest of the month of June most of the activities will be focused on giving students some advice on how to use some the digital tools (tweeter, voicethread and timetoast) by modeling technology inside the english lab. -
Helping students create their digital ecosystem (Long term activity)
It is higly recommended to give students acces to the variety of tehcnological tools that can be used to persuit knowledge. This might help them to explore and discover their learning styles on their own. In this case, from July until october students will be given time to define and find out how they think they learn better. They, however, will keep on tracing new ways of learning. -
Real world application (long term activities)
when going through the many options that technology offers to learn, teachers should explain to students that all these social software should have real worl application. Thus, its use should reflect the way it is implemented in their daily lives. To do so, they will have the months of July, August, September and October in order to discover how to implement the target tools in real life. -
Self-assessment
Teachers should give students the opportunity of reflecting about their abilities and decisions they make when using the digital tools. Once it has been identified their pitfalls, the teacher can assign students specific tasks to overcome those problems -
Accepting students choices (Result)
This would be the result that is expected to be achieved. Once students have been given access to the different technological resources they can use to learn, it would be possible to give them freedom to choose what technological tools best suit their learning styles. This would improve both the way they process information and the strategies they use to learn. -
Giving students pedagogical assignments (Long term activities)
With the implementation of the social software that students have decided to use, it is intended to promote the development of different skills in order to foster both the interaction and co-construction of knowledge among the students. Given this is almost the end of the year, students are expected to keep on using the social software they have selected throughout the next academic year so that they can report what were the benefits or the problems they got from implementing technology.
