The uses of the technology in the learning process has increased through the years. Computers have been used for language teaching since the 1960s it was used first as a behaviorist were students just took the computer as a mechanical tutor that allowed them to work individual but this idea was rejected and they decided to used as a communicative tool this allow pupils to generate a good utterance as well many teachers saw the advantages like it was more socio-cognitive where integrated students in a real environment and aid them to develop their input and output skills.
what call my attention about the article was when the writer says "the teacher has become a facilitator of learning rather than the font of wisdom, and will find, select, and offer information in a variety of ways on the basis of what the students must learn in order to meet diverse needs." (pg58) is mind that the technological resources do not come to substitute the role of teachers but came to give them tools for make their job easy and for help students to have a great experience in the learning process.
Thanks to the technological advances were created new flexible software that going to change and improve three key sistem areas that are: the knowledge acquisition, interaction with multiple underlying system and partial understanding.
To end, in my on words the uses of the computer and the differents technological resources are helping not just the educators,but also the students to develop their skills. And Thanks to the internet, windows and software advance in term of education transform the society and the classroom environment in a very educational approaches.
I totally agree with you Grisel. Nowadays we have many tools and applications that can help us to learn a new language .I can say that some of them are Projectors, computers, speakers, virtual dictionaries, websites, based game activities and others. Also, I know teachers have become facilitator of learning a new language, but I think that we would not create technological classes without the Internet, websites, base/games activities as I said above. But my questions is. What can we do with those teachers who are teaching old methods? Or what our academic system would do in order to help teachers and student to learn and teach a new language?
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