My experience with technology in the classroom.

Technology provides us with lots of tools to make use of in the classroom.

Our Power Point presentations are a clear example that we could be highly creative and get the best out of technology.

Taking into account this need for the inclusion of technology in the classroom, we were asked to include some technological resource in our teaching practices.

In my particular case, I created a site in Facebook for students to upload and to edit their writing assignments.  I also created a Blog in which I uploaded the texts we dealt with in the lessons and the final drafts of students’ productions.

I was highly expectant as regards the use of Facebook, but to be honest, it disappointed me. In the last lesson one of the students told me “Profe, la verdad, yo estoy todo el día en Facebook, pero con la página, me re colgué”

I thought that it could be a great idea to include this tool, considering that it is something that students have “at hand”. Unluckily, few of them adhered to the proposal, and the ones who did, didn’t complete the tasks correctly.

I know my partners had different experiences –more luckily ones- but I still consider that this experience has not been in vain.

Perhaps, student’s refusal is related to the innovation. Sometimes, we don’t want to take up new ways, just because we don’t know them, or we haven’t tried them before.

We could say that Marc Prensky’s view is quite an extreme one, but I think he is right when he asserts: “Today’s students are no longer the people our educational system was designed to teach” So much so, that our students have developed a particular way of “dealing” with school life, and when our proposals do not concur with their beliefs of what school should be, they reject our proposal.

It might seem that this “entry” has nothing to do with the subject, but I cannot avoid reflecting upon this. It will demand lot of effort on the part of all the teachers, to change school practices and to help students to develop a new system to “decode” school ways.

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