Living With Technology

With the existing new technologies and innovations emerging every other day, the information technology is an increasingly interesting platform not just for scientist, but also for all common people like ourselves. How many time do we spend everyday on the web, checking our E-mail, Facebook, blogs? The time might surprised us.

We all connected by the internet, especially the social networks. We do it for fun, for education, for communication, for business. According the Social Media Revolution 2011,  social media is about people. Some people find their lover from the internet, some find their opportunity from the internet, some even divorced because of the internet. As one of the net citizens, I have to admit that, those social media have huge influence on my life. On the one hand, they enable me to keep peace with the world around me: every morning I spent almost half an hour reading the news that just happened around the world. I will also check my twitter, looking for what happens to my friends or sharing my experiences with them. However, as I'm involved too much to the social media, sometime I may feeling tired and stressful. People's daily life have been changed by the social media,  it's not an easy job for anyone to go back to the old times. keeping a diary on their notebooks or mailing only from the postoffice is hard to imagine.

What's more, education also changed because of the technology. The video Educational Change Challenge report that, it is a big challenge for a professor in the past century to teach in todays classroom. We use different technological equipments in the classroom, we use various online tools to promote the learning process. Based on the video, there George Evans said that: every student can learn,just not the same day or same way. Technology enable the teachers to meet the needs of different students, finding the beat way to arise their interests in studying.

In conclusion, technology has changed the world's communication. people from different places, with different careers are all part of the net-world citizen. Even the vast majority of people who are still unfamiliar with the technology of computers and the internet, surely technology has became an indispensable part of their life. 

Summer

Catch the New Blackboard

    As the development of technology, online tools has became an necessary part in our life. Among those, weblogs is considered to be one of the most efficient in improving the teaching and learning process. It's like a new technical  blackboard; the teachers and students can use the blogs to promote their learning and teaching process.

    As a teacher, I may try to build my blog to reflect my teaching experiences. Using the blogs to describe the various teaching methods I will use in my classroom, if it works I may try to share it with other teachers, and if the method does not work , I will also ask those experienced teachers to help. Besides, collaboration is also necessary between teachers. Teachers can use using blogs to working on the same topic , sharing  ideas or teaching activities that used successfully in their own classroom.  For me , I will also use the weblogs to keep pace with the development of teaching technology.

  For my future students whose first language is not English, I will use the weblogs to help them understand the nature of  language. According to ACTFL,  National standards for Foreign language Education, one of the teaching standards is Comparisons. Teachers can help the students to understand the nature of language and culture through the comparison of the language studied and their own. I may  set the class blog, dividing the all the students in two group, practicing on writing and translating. For instance, one of the group will post an article in English, and the other group will works on the translations of the passage in their mother language. Both of them can critique on their works about the language structure, the meaning of the translation works. I think the practice of such works will help the students have a sense about the difference between the different languages and the culture. However, I will also try to make the blogs more individual in order to raise the students' interests in using it. I can encourage students to have their own course blogs, posting their own ideas, feelings and  written works.

  Using blogs in the L2 classroom can be a long journey. The more we explored the more surprise we may receive.

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