Learner autonomy - One-computer classroom
This week has been very productive. I have learned how to Promote learners' independence. The document provided helped me a lot to increase my knowledge about the activities I can do with students to develop the capacity of critical thinking and a making decision ability to learn by themselves.
I am sure that the appropriate strategies I apply with students will benefit them to create a positive attitude towards their own learning. I want to refer to self-esteem importance in order to be able to learn independently. This is the concept that students must manage to take charge of their own learning and confidence to accomplish activities with the responsibility of doing things because they feel they want to. Power Point presentations, journals, picture dictionaries, personal diaries are some of the useful strategies to foster independent learning. I am really motivated since the provided information is really useful all the time.
I also want to refer to one-computer classroom activities that are really interesting to apply with our learners because they let us take advantage of the material that we count on in our place works. For example I found it very useful to work on group projects since they are ideal to involve every students into work which has to be participative and responsible and covers the principle of self-access learning.
On the other hand, I want to say that my project is going well because my students after a long discussion about the kind of texts they wanted to read decided to work on traditional stories. I gave them the chance to read them and bring their comments to the class to start a round-table discussion to share what they found interesting, motivating and gives positive morals of the stories.
In addition, I also want to refer to the lesson plan for a one-computer class because I think it is useful to have a clear idea about preparing a class with one computer. This is not a real problem if we are positive and use technology to help our teaching process and encourage our student's learning.
I feel happy because I have two partners to work on our drafts and final reports. I hope we help each other and provide suggestions and positive feedback to improve our projects.
This has been a hard week of work but it is really worth.
Mory-Ecuador
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