A Way to Connect Students to the World

This week video is about Mrs. Vicki Davis who incorporated new technologies in her class. She developed many projects that brought her around the world to give conferences. Mrs. Davis uses technologies to make students learn by themselves. Students get more confidence in themselves because they learn how to learn so at home if they need information, they will know how to get the information as their as used to do this in classes. Also, in Mrs. Davis classes, she incorporated some projects where her students communicate with other students all around the world. This way, students are more open to other culture and it can be funnier to learn about what’s happening somewhere else, than by reading newspapers or articles.

New technologies have its place in classrooms and one part of this technology is to be able to communicate with other all around the world. It can be really interesting to collaborate with other schools in many classes such as geography, French, English, Spanish, art, etc. You can learn so much more with the different cultures all around the world and this way you can be more open-minded about all the current issues happening in the world.

In an ESL class, you can collaborate with other students and talk about many subjects, the point is only to practice your English. This gives a lot of opportunities to students to discuss things that they like with students of their age. It is so difficult to find a topic that interests them so if they can choose what they want and practice their English…why not?

Media also brings another side of teaching ESL. You can use all the tools available over the Internet to open your students’ eyes about what’s happening in the world. You can watch recent videos talking about current issues and have great discussion in class. It is sure that this is more for secondary level students, but with elementary level, you can have an active board and create a lot of activities on this. In my opinion…be it elementary or secondary level, they are both attracted with technologies, so if you include this in your class, you have more chances for them to be more attentive and participate in your class.