Teaching English in a Secondary School !

our English classroom

I have recently watched a very interesting videoconference  organized by Telefonica  foudation called “Resintonizando la Educacion” held at Circulo de Bellas Artes in Madrid yesterday, the speakers were:

Mr. Alejandro Piscitelli from Argentina he has published Nativos Digitales. Dieta cognitiva, inteligencia colectiva y arquitecturas de la participación (2009) he has several blogs:

• Filosofitis: blog de Alejandro Piscitelli,
  
• Nativos digitales: blog del último libro de Alejandro Piscitelli
• Proyecto Facebook: blog del Proyecto de la Cátedra de Procesamiento de Datos

Mrs Dolors Reig, expert on ICT new trends, Education, E-learning and Social Media, she owns the blog El Caparazon, Mr ……………a secondary teacher in Andalucia, Mr …….. telefonica.

Some weeks ago, while talking on the porject called EDCAT1x1, a teachermate stated something in a meeting which caused me  great deception and strange surprise at the same time. She dared to say that using computers in the classroom was only a temporary trend that would last for a  very few years…I felt disappointed 😥 and rather ashamed 😳

I’m very fond of using my computer in the English class and  I use internet  in 1 out 3 of my classes, that’s to say once a week for every class-group. My  fourteen-year-old students are used to write their English compositions by commenting in the class blog, they also use their textbook website to revise for their exams, some of them have even produced a video in group or registered dialogues using audacity, we have worked cooperatively in webquests and treasure hunts, we have sung all together for Peace using karaokes from You Tube…

LUCKILY I CAME ACROSS WITH THIS VIDEO: Resintonizando la Educacion

It lasts for almost 2 hours but I strongly recomend everybody to watch it. It deals about interesting points such as WEB3.0, social networks such as Facebook, digital Natives, Multiple Intelligences… and the most important thing the new role teachers will have to assume.