Last Course Reflection

 

 

Last Course Reflection

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This course has been very useful for me personally, technology is a key that we have for education, there are tools that I learned to use that I will definitely start using in my future classes, one of these is the type of evaluations that I can do it through google forms, it seems excellent to me how we can ask questions, add images to make it more attractive for students, and we can even program the quiz so that the answers are projected immediately, I love the idea of ​​using google forms, because it should not necessarily be used for evaluations that have a percentage, each class I could use it at the end of the class to know if my students understood and if I see bad answers reflected, focus on those later, google forms is undoubtedly my favorite but I also have to mention that I loved the scribd page to create worksheets for my students that will be fun and definitely useful for them.

Technology and the virtual have come to stay, thinking about my time when I was in high school and how the teachers taught us now seems impossible to me, I consider that there are so many tools today such as google forms, scribd, YouTube, listening’s, power points , roulettes, puzzles and a number of unimaginable ideas that come to my mind, thinking of teaching my students with just paper and a blackboard sounds insane, that doesn't work anymore, students need fun so we as teachers should start being more spontaneous, to have many different types of classes that we can definitely achieve with technology and in that way we will be able to capture the attention of our students and make them excited to come to our class.

Throughout the course I learned and dealt with several projects that I definitely liked, and that had their complexity because they were all quite new things for me, my most rewarding project without a doubt was making the 3-minute video explaining the topic of my choice, the topic that I decided to present was present continuous, why it was rewarding for me, it was because I really felt like I was giving a class, I felt a real teacher, so it's exciting and at the same time I was very nervous, it was quite a challenge because I had to do it on several occasions, because I talked for a long time and they were very long videos, so I had to fix it and do it again, but it was extremely gratifying to teach, give examples, and make myself understood.

In my time when I was a student, I mostly had teachers who came to the classroom, they gave me a sheet of paper on which there was an explanation and a practice, each time the class was based on reading information and doing that practice, I really hope never be this type of teacher, something that as a future teacher I want to include a lot is technology, games, and ultimately a lot of practice but that can be done dynamically, in pairs, in groups with images, using or creating videos or audios in class, and also outside of class so that they really learn, I hope to always be aware of the process and attentive to every change and every detail or help that my students need, always hand in hand with technology.

It is not a lie for anyone that learning a new language is not easy, and that in class we will always have students who find it easier than others, as future teachers we must always be aware and support those who need it most. For me, in this course I cannot mention what my most precious knowledge is, because I really have many, not only learning how to publish a video, but also what it meant to create it, and execute it, in the same way with quizzes, create them, think in ideas, and learn how to post it and ensure that my students can work on it in a very simple way, this course will be very useful in my future as a teacher, every day we must learn new things, update ourselves and get attention of our students, in order to obtain good results.