ICT's: Advantages & Inconveniences for Teachers

ADVANTAGES

•Great source of information, orientation & investigation

•Individualization. Attention to diversity

•Learner-centered environment

•Teachers have more facilities to present innovative activities
•Easy contact with other educational centres & teachers

•Facilitate assessment & control by teachers.

INCONVENIENCES

•Stress

•Lack of materials & resources

•Students may get distracted easily & do not take lessons seriously

•Some students may need extra attention to use technology

•Teachers need to devote extra time in order to prepare their classes, update computer programmes, recycle their knowledge, etc.

 

What do you think???

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Why are new technologies useful in education?

"The greatest challenge the school has to face up nowadays is to prepare children to be able to deal with the new information society.” By Jordi Adell

“Our students have changed radically. Today’s students are no longer the people our educatinal system was designed to teach.”. By Mark Prensky, “Digital natives, digital immigrants”

 

 WHY??

•The arrival of the new technologies and the changing society: allows to satisfy the necessities of the school of the XXI century.

•Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are potentially powerful enabling tools for educational change and reform.

•ICTs help us to introduce new methodologies and learning environments.

•ICTs help us to improve education according to the new social reality.

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Innovate or Die!!!

Hello everybody and welcome to our new blog. It has been created by Cynthia, Salud & Isabel, students of the Master of Teaching English in Secundary Education at the University of Valencia 2010-11.
We have created this blog for the Innovation & Investigation in Education subject, under the supervision of our teacher Inma Garín.
This is a blog directed to those students who want to become English teachers in Secondary Education, as well as for those who are English teachers already.
In our blog, you will find innovative ideas and tools that will help you to improve your English lessons. Of course we invite you to participate and post your opinions!!

Thanks everybody!