Hi everyone,

This week in the project training we have discussed the place of technology in education, its importance and mostly the benefits of integration of technology into our teaching. We have additionally learned new tools that we can exploit in our language classrooms some of them including which we were previously introduced such as wordwall, wordart, linoit, wordclouds that can add interaction and fun element in our teaching using templates they offer to create activities, input, materials, and so on. We are also introduced with concepts like digital native and digital immigrant that were coined to identify people who were born to the world of the internet and computers (digital natives) and people who were born before that era of technological improvements (digital immigrants). I personally realized once again how important it it to keep pace with my future students's vast knowledge on using technology and creating classroom / online activities according to their interests is also important in order not to lose their in the subject and even language learning. Integration of technological tools, materials, having blending lessons rather than merely traditional lessons is a natural requirement of the new world that we live in and the role of globalization is huge and therefore we, as teachers of English as a global language, should always update ourselves to keep up with innovations and new teaching&learning methods, and especially the language that keeps on changing and evolving. 

Apart from these, we also met with presentation and acitivity creation tools that can be used in preparing/planning lessons such as glogster, prezi, and canva. You can click on the links and discover more about them.