week 11.

Week 11: The use of mobiles inside and outside of the classroom

Article: Twenty Ideas for Using Mobile Phones in the Language Classroom

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Something that I would like to continuous reading is about the use of mobiles inside and outside of the classroom that offers diversity way to teach and make a different class. The article mentions several reasons to consider using mobile phones in the classroom and the most important are social tools that facilitate authentic and relevant communication and collaboration among learners.

 Nowadays, the mobile can satisfy the need to know with immediacy and continue exploring beyond the learners knowledge. As a teacher I need encourages understand how mobile learning, drink adopt this technology in my daily life. With a little training and time to explore educational applications I can find fascinating way that allows me to support mobile. 

Something that catch my attention is that my class will be highly successful connections, as I explain the student researching on the Internet, take pictures of the material, recorded a procedure, space is located temporarily in interactive maps, take notes on tools like social networks and then share and exchange the material peers and among all assemble their conclusions or discussions of the subject to be published in the blog of the classroom or in a shared document. I know that Group collaboration is easy through chat applications such as Twitter or Facebook group.

Finally I can say that mobile is already an essential tool in our lives inside and outside of the classroom, so I do not participant in the teaching and learning process is unthinkable. As teachers, we must appropriate use and learn to take full advantage of it.