lunes, 20 de septiembre de 2010

Electronic Literacy


 
                                                                                     



All the electronic things that have been around me had been very useful in many aspects of my life because they have helped me to make easier personal and academic activities. Since I started to use electronic objects I have been learning new things everyday and I have improved my skills. But it is an interesting story how I learn to use electronic items.

At the begging I did not know the real meaning of technology and all that stuff. For me a computer was a synonym of videogames, when we got our first computer (1998) the first thing I learnt was how to play and draw in the computer. And I never used the computer for homework because I did not find a relation between the computer and school. Sometime later I broke down the computer and we changed it for a new one. I had the opportunity to use internet until I was in junior high school and I created my e-mail account but without sense. We did not have internet at home because it was not necessary. I spent a lot of time doing unnecessary things in the computer but I learnt things I did not know.

Nowadays I use technology with specific purposes. I very often use a computer to do homework and things related with my academic development. Also I use to be in contact with my classmates in order to ask for things of school that I forget. Now the internet is very important for my academic improvement for that reason we contracted internet at home it has been very useful because I can use tools to get better level in some skills related to English by using videos, exercises, dictionaries, and so on. I also have learned to use in a better way many programs specially programs such as: Microsoft office, video converters, browsers, anti virus, etc. all that experience has been very useful for solving many academic and personal problems bout technology.

In somewhere in the future I would like to use electronic items for English language teaching. At the moment there million of pages and programs with the purpose of teaching or promoting English language, but I would like to develop my own program or page with that purpose. In a personal aspect I would like to take a course of advanced software or something like that in order to acquire more knowledge about technology. Electronic items are one of the best tools for teaching and learning because as a teacher it will be the best way to be update in new techniques and methods of teaching.

Most of things technology that I have learned by myself has been useful for two purposes personal and academic. The first one for solving problem with technology and fun; in the other hand in the academic aspect I have improved my level by using the appropriate tools to get that objective. Technology has been and will be the perfect tool to increase knowledge of any people just if they want to and know how to use it correctly. 

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