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What is the best age to introduce your children into technology?

I think that the best age in which children have to start learning about technology is when they are in seven years old because as children are in seven years old, they get things easily, and it can be useful for them at school, as well. In many schools students start school at this age; therefore, it will be easier for them to get information and do homework assignments that teachers ask them to do. There are some cases in which the families of some students are very humble, and they do not know how to write or even to help their kids to do homework assignments. So in this case to learn about computers will be a big advantage for these students because if the parents can not write and can not help them, they can look for other sources.

Although I can say that it has its disadvantages because as we know in internet we can find many things that can not be great for kids to see. So in this case parents have to be careful and see what theirs sons are doing and see what they can see and what they can not see. So although parents can not use this  tool, parents have to do with this. It is parents’ responsibility to do this.

 So at this age will be great to help our children to learn how to use computers because as we know there are some things that we can not be found in a book. Another important thing is that you save time when you look information in a computer so we must say that it is the opposite when using books because it takes time or you have to read a lot in other to answer one simple thing that can be found in a minute.

Another good thing that I can find by using this at the age of seven years old is that students have more time to get fun and be with their family because as I said, you can do your homework assignments in a faster way. So it would help children to get fun and enjoy of their age as I did it when I was a kid.

So I must say that it will be the best age for learning this interesting tool that has facilitated many peoples` life, and it will be one of the best options that public schools can do with students. To have computers at schools will make students to make their jobs easily.

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Good and bad things on presential and online classes

As time goes on, we can see that everything is changing when talking about education. Technology may cause one of those changes because now we can see that technology facilitates our life. We find whatever we want, and we just copy and paste, and in the past people had to waste a lot of time reading books. I must say that studying online is a good option especially for those people who work and do not have time to go to schools. I think that study online is a good option because you have more time to do your staffs, and you do not have problems with transportation, as well. There are many people that do not study because of the transportation to the universities or schools; therefore, it could be a good option for those people.

Now, let see the bad things of studying on line. I think that studying online is kind of difficult because you do not have anyone who can help you to understand better or at least to explain you the things that you do not understand; therefore, it could be frustrated. Another bad thing is that you do not have anyone with whom to practice speaking skills, and it could affect you a lot. As we know when learning a language you need to interact with other people and practice as much as you can.

But if we go to schools, we know that it is totally different because you can talk with the teacher if you have any doubt about one specific thing, or you can even ask many interesting things during the class. You can participate and interact with other people and practice the language, as well. You can also make presentations and show how much you have learned. To be face to face with teachers is the best thing that we can do as students because it helps us to understand better, and we learn still more.

As everything, it has its disadvantages because we sometimes go to school, but the teacher misses, so you have to come back home, and we waste time and money, and it is not fair. Another thing is that sometimes teachers do not know how to give directions, and we do not understand what she/he explains, and it comes to be stressful for us because you do not get what the teacher told you to do.  So I must say that both situations have their advantages and disadvantages, but in my case I would choose to go to school because teachers facilitate our learning and help us in any doubt that we have when learning something.

HOW CAN WE USE THESE TOOLS IN THE LESSON PLAN?

Well, I think that every tool has its purpose and its function related to education and to start talking about some of these important tools let see one of them. The mind42 tool is a very nice program that allows us to create maps in a very creative way. It also helps us to include URL links. I think that it is a very nice tool that we can include in a lesson plan for making students to understand better a topic. We can include links in branches for them to look at it. It can be also use for teaching vocabulary. We can include the work, meaning and the respective example. We can also use it to make an online lesson plan in which you can include some links for students go and make the respective activities.

Many people in the world like to learn many things: especially if it is related to computers. Some teachers complicate their lives creating Word quizzes for their students when they may be some other ways of making students to work and practice the language, and one of these ways is using Youthink program. It is a very controversial program that helps teachers to create quizzes, questions and journals. I think that we can include this tool in our lesson plan for students to discuss a question or make journals at home. Therefore; I can use it for making semi controlled activities or giving them homework.

As many teachers, I would like to help my students to improve their speaking skills and one of the things that I can do is use this interesting tool called Brainshark which is a video presentation in which students can record their voices and improve their English. I think that we can use this tool in the free practice activities from my lesson plan and make my students to do their best. It can be use for teacher to develop one topic and have a more understandable class.

Teacher must find many ways of making their students to practice speaking skills that’s why we have another tool that can help a lot, as well. This is called Mailvu. This tool allows us to create our own video, and it also allows us to send full length videos via Video Text or Video Email to anyone, anywhere. Therefore; I might be nice to work with this in the classroom and make students to loose anxiety.

As we have been studied these tools are very useful when talking about education. I must say that all of them can be very useful, and we can also use these tools for making semi controlled and free practice activities in a lesson plan. Teachers must take into account these programs in the classroom to make of the lessons something more meaningful.

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Advantages and disadvantages of using YouTube

Well, some of the advantages that we can have by using this program are that you can find many educational videos that are useful for students and even for teachers. For example, those videos in which people explain interesting topics, such as grammar structure and vocabulary explanation. I think that it helps a lot when students do not understand what teachers explain in classrooms, and it also helps teachers for teaching a lesson because there are some videos in which people provide examples,  and you can take them for your class. It also helps students to learn new vocabulary through listening to songs. It provides the lyrics for students to sing and practice vocabulary. I think that most of the people had learned English by using this interesting program that is called YouTube.

Another advantage that you can find by using this program is that if teachers work online, they can give links for students to learn a lesson or even ask for something based on a video. It is a very creative and interesting way of working with students.

Talking about disadvantages, I can say that one of the disadvantages is that some people do not use it for good purposes, and it affects s somehow. For example some people upload things related to sex, and it affect s some children psychologically. Therefore, it has its good and bad things. Another disadvantage is that some people do not give to this program a good use they upload whatever thing that they record, and it might not be important for some people.

So I could recommend to people to use this program just for educational purposes and upload things that can help society in general, and I also recommend people think before upload things in this program because since the moment you upload something everybody can see it and can upload to someone else and make some criticism on your video, and sometimes there are some people that do not like to be criticized by anyone.

How can we use hot potatoes to teach children, teenagers and adults?

I think that this tool can be useful in all the ages because it looks like an exam that can allows you to evaluate your students in a very easy way. By using this tool, you do not have to complicate your life checking the good and bad answers of your students. It gives the grade as soon as possible, and this is one of the good things that this tool posses.

You can use this hot potato to teach your children new vocabulary in a very easy and funny way. With the jcross you can create cross words which can make your students to get fun. You can evaluate them, and they will not even notice that you are doing this.

If you are working with teenagers you can create cross words, as well to teach vocabulary, you can also create readings for students to read fast or get vocabulary that can be difficult for them. You can develop reading skills on your students and push them to work on this. If you do this, you will see that to do this in your classroom is a good idea, and you will also see that your job had not been in vain.

With adults you can create difficult readings for they to practice. You can also use this tool to taste your students and see how well they are on reading skills or to see how much vocabulary they know. You can even teach them how to create a reading test for they to create one and share that reading with their classmates. In that way they will be practicing and you will get good results whenever you give them a reading test. Therefore, you can use this excellent tool in the classroom and get fun with your students for a while.