When I look
back and see the amount of tools that we have touched since the beginning, I
can see that there are plenty of tools we use to better our teaching, to
modernize it. I must confess that I don’t master all those tools perfectly, but
I rely on practice to do it. So when considering implementing technology in my
classes, without changing the weekly time I need to use to work with my
students who are not so techy, I really see a challenge. But one solution I
could consider is to find some extra time to work exclusively on tech with them
so that using it to communicate my lessons would be more easy for me as they
could be more familiar to the tool. This is how we can use more efficiently our
lesson times and face that challenge of lack of technology mastery with
students and use of technology to learn language with some education
administrators who will no be happy with us if we don’t finish our program.
Well said, Yves. I don't expect you to master all the tools that have been introduced in this short time. Rather the idea is exposure to a wide array of tools, then a few tools where we go more in depth. Similarly, you can't expect your students to master too many tools in a short period. If tech is new to them, they will be able to handle less then you can. -Robert
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