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Interactive language learning on the web

Learning the language on the web is available to anyone who has an access to the web. And every teacher who want to make her own web page and put exercises, quiz or activity they really need to be attractive and to suitable to the level of the student. There are many advantages to creating the teacher her/his own language learning activities in the web. These advantages include accessibility, renewability and adaptability.  The most problem to create an web page is  the teacher  find it difficult because he/she don't  have the technical  knowledge  to do that and the most of them lack in that. Also, they don’t have the time to learn this new skill.

However, the teacher needs to answer this question to the student before creating online activities.1. What type of computer and browser will they be using? 2. What is the connection speed at which they will be accessing activates?

Another thing that teacher should put in her/his mind is to meet accessibility guidelines for individual with disabilities so those students with special need are not left alone.

All of the student's needs for and teacher technical skills should be considering before design any online activity.  There are many skills the teacher can teach through web like vocabulary practice, grammar lesson, comprehension exercise, reading and writing tasks.

Learning through the web needs a really hard work from the teachers, also, it enjoyable for the student to use it to learning the language.

 

In the other hands, in Saudi schools the teachers don’t use this way of teaching but, we hope they tray in our school to use it with our students.

 

Blog, Wiki and Delicious.

Blog, wiki and delicious is a great website and this generation need to improve their skills and critical thinking. Also, these website can promote their mind.

Blog can make the students show how they   have a gift in writing and improve these talent and show it to the world.

Wiki give them the ability to make a group to collectively edit and develop documents can save hundreds of back-and forth emails.

Delicious can be the best place to save what they love of website and links like(video-picture-music-skills site).

This all website can really help the student in Saudi school a lot.  

Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants .

a.     Who are Digital Immigrant teachers and Digital Native students as categorized by the author?

Digital Immigrant teachers is the people who were not born into the digital world but, have it in later in their live. And start to adopt or use it the technology in the late time of their live.

Digital native students are the people who use the digital language of computers, video games and internet. Also, they were born in the time the technology show.

b.     List down 3 differences between Digital Immigrant teachers and Digital Native students?

 

Digital Native students	Digital Immigrant teachers
The digital students used to receive the information very fast.	Immigrant teachers like to teach step- by-step.
The digital students prioritize random access.	They are very (serious) in the lesson time.
They chose games rather than be (serious) and work.	They acquired the skills through years of practice.

 

c.      What is meant by Digital immigrant accent? List down three examples of “digital immigrant accents.”

 The immigrant  accent is can be seen in such things as reconciliation to the internet is not the first solution to solve or help in education process may be  can be a second solution for them of course.

For example:

1.   Needing to print out a document written on the computer In order to edit it.

2.   Printing out your email.

3.   Bringing people physically into your office to see an interesting website.

d.     According to the author, what is the biggest serious problem facing education today?

The biggest problem from the author view is the deep hole between the teachers and who use the old school way and the students who use technology. And those students find that the way that teachers used is old and boring.  

e.      “Should the Digital Natives learn the old way, or should their Digital Immigrants learn the new?”

Unfortunately, the digital students can't back forward or the immigrant teachers can be a digital native. But, the immigrant can try to (walk with the river) on another word, to learn the new things in digital world and in same time try to teach the students with their style of teach.

f.      What should the Digital Immigrant educators really want to reach Digital Natives?

They will have to change and try to do it and as the Nike Motto of the digital generation says," Just do it". So, they will succeed with time but, they need more time to learn and to administrators to support them.

 

 

Welcome

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Normalization

Dr.Bax was thinking that CALL is the  past present and future of student life. Bax suggested that we need to use technology in our teaching in every day of our life and that is normalization. And that will make the student more understandable and to make the technology a part of their daily day.

 

 

In Saudi Arabia we can change the way of our student idea about the technology as just in entertainment way. They need to use it in teaching way. Also, we can make them used this technology in the class or in home but in the  The correct way. However, this technology can improve their thinking and lit them explore the world more.

From my opinion we will rich this level of normalization maybe in the distant future. However, they possible use this way that Bax suggest when they try to walking with the current global world.

In our Saudi school maybe they will reached this and achieve this level in the rear future. But, I think that they working out to make the Bax view of CALL and improve the student in school.