My computer and Internet skills

Though the introduction of technology in our Educational system,
the use of computers and Internet skills have become essential in the development of our classes.
Technology as a friend of our work, can help us to do our job in less time,
innovate our activities and classes.
The thing is that we have two types of teachers.
First, the ones that don´t care about learning how to manipulate a computer
or how to use Internet tools. Those teachers prefer to continue
using the old methods in which the teacher spent the whole class
just talking and talking without noticing that some students were not paying attention.
There is another type of teachers that have little knowledge about computers,
but they don´t want to improve it.
The thing is that everyday new sources, pages etc, are appearing,
so we have to be up dated.
This type of teachers just use the common resources as the e-mail account, messenger etc,
believing that they are the only things students need to use.

For those many reasons, I want to tell you why you must
develop your computer skills even if you don´t like.
As you already know, nowadays kids, teens and also adults tend to be attracted
by computers and Internet tools, so I teacher must take this information
as an allied that can help to keep students on the road.
A teacher has to investigate what type of electronical sources,
pages and groups his/her students are interested in,
so that she/he can use those sources with the purpose of introducing
students to knowledge by using their own methods.
This means that if they don´t want to go in the way you go,
you must change your direction.
Remember that the best way to learn
is by doing something that you like.
Due to these factors, a teacher must polish his/her computer skills,
so that he/she can be introduced to other´s way of learning.

Another important thing is that you must try to innovate
your classes as much as you can because
it will give them a sense of freshness.
Remember that every student has to spend years in the learning process,
and to be exposed to the same techniques all the time can be boring.
That is why you must innovate your lessons and activities.
Imagine that you are going to have a 2 minutes presentation,
but your students don´t feel comfortable when talking in front of many people,
so you can change the methodology by telling them that
they will do it by recording their voice in voxopop.
That change in you lesson could help many students to start
improving their speaking skills because they know
that they have to be well prepared.
In this case, the teacher has a big responsability because he/she must know
about the different options to develop a single activity.

Also a teacher must improve his/her computer and Internet skills
because when using technology, students can find different difficulties,
and they expect the teacher to solve them.
Imagine that you ask your students to look for information
and then cite the sources, but after a complete homework
you find out that a student has problems and that he/she cannot find
the web side used to get the information.
The student feels bad because it was hard to do the activity.
In this case, you must have general knowledge that makes you remember
that every computer has an application, in Internet, that tells you about
the last visited pages, so that you can find what the page used by the student was.
This means that a teacher must know in order to teach students
because it could be strange that a student tells you how to do everything.
YOU CANNOT TEACH WHAT YOU DON´T KNOW,
SO, LETS PRACTICE IN INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY.