11. Technology changes all the time
• So, how has technology changed our lives?
– We don’t have time to waste!
– Better graphics, more realistic
– Different ways to communicate
– Closer relationship with other cultures
12. What do we need?
• Students now have a smaller attention span:
it’s the era of better graphics!
• No time to waste.
• Entertainment + learning.
14. • Each teacher has his/her own way of starting a
class: with a song, with a prayer, with a game.
• Why not with an online resource?
• Increase your students’ general culture or
prepare a little game for them.
15. Day in the history
Video and a list
of events that
happened that
day
You can choose the
date
www.history.com/this-day-in-history
16. What’s the weather like today?
• http://weather.ya
hoo.com/peru/li
ma-metropolitan-
area/lima-
418440/?unit=c
17. Be a weather reporter
• Begin your class asking about the weather.
• Open the weather website.
• One student will be the weather reporter.
• Other students will be callers, asking for the
weather report in their cities.
18. Word of the day
www.superkids.com/aweb/tools/words/wod.shtml
20. • Opening English class has to
be an event! Students are
Take those bits of supposed to get motivated
information and use for learning.
the grammar or
vocabulary behind it:
• The simplest things can have
weather, tenses, new
words. a great effect on your kids.
Remember, everything • History, for example, gives
must have a purpose: them general knowledge.
have them make a Cross-curricular activities
presentation, sentenc
es or a game!
are always enriching.
32. Remember
• Our students are digital natives.
• They have a real and virtual social life.
• We live in a global village.
• Technology is changing the education.
• We have to teach our students life skills.
• We have to adapt to modern times, times can
not adapt to us.
34. The principle goal of education is to create men and
women who are capable of doing new things, not
simply repeating what other generations have done.
JEAN PIAGET