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Using The Internet in The Classroom

The document discusses the use of the internet in the classroom. It outlines advantages like providing endless resources that enhance students' skills and critical thinking. These include accessing information quickly, engaging in projects globally, and raising awareness of diversity. Potential disadvantages include risk of distraction, commercial influence, and issues of reliability and plagiarism that require guidance. The document provides examples of websites useful for English language teaching and learning in areas like speaking, listening, and pronunciation practice.

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Using The Internet in The Classroom

The document discusses the use of the internet in the classroom. It outlines advantages like providing endless resources that enhance students' skills and critical thinking. These include accessing information quickly, engaging in projects globally, and raising awareness of diversity. Potential disadvantages include risk of distraction, commercial influence, and issues of reliability and plagiarism that require guidance. The document provides examples of websites useful for English language teaching and learning in areas like speaking, listening, and pronunciation practice.

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USING THE INTERNET IN

THE CLASSROOM

By M.A. Cinthya Olivares Garita


Thoughts on the Internet
What Is This Tool About?
What Is This Tool About?
Beginnings of the Internet
Beginnings of the Internet
Exploring Endless Resources
Advantages to the Use of Internet
• Incorporates increasing • Makes the process of
resources acquiring materials
• Enhances skills of its much quicker than
users traditional methods
• Contributes to critical • Offers diverse looks to a
thinking skills, subject
collaborative and group • Helps browse numerous
work. sources in one sitting
• Expands the resources • Integration of different
available to the users materials
Advantages to the Use of Internet
• Helps access information in a • Requires skills of logic and
timely manner inference for the navigation of
• Contributes to get to the core sites
of the information relatively • Improves the quality of their
quickly projects
• Allows for both independent • Helps engage in projects with
projects and collaborative people from around the world
undertakings • Offers exceptional
• Poses a different, possibly opportunities for practicing
greater, responsibility as their newly acquired language
learners (the risk of being • Raises awareness about the
sidetracked) world's diversity.
• Plays a significant role in
fighting some of the gender
biases of today's education
Disadvantages to the Use of Internet
• Includes any type of • Entails more than just finding
information people can give a source (involves comparing,
out about themselves to the evaluating, and making
unknown public decisions)
• Exhibits an increasing • Some Web services may be
presence of commercial sites harmful because of the ways
• Inevitably, it allows room for in which they offer students
incorrect information alternatives to doing their
(question the reliability of the work
available information). • Includes numerous issues
• Takes away the time from concerning plagiarism and
more traditional means of work ethics
information retrieval such as
reading a book
Simple Searching Rules

• Use the word AND when • Use quotation marks


you want information around the names of
about two or more key people, places, or a
words together. phrase. This makes sure
that the words appear
• Use the word NOT when right next to each other in
the Web site.
you want information
about one key word but
no information about the • To find a picture of
other. something, type in image:
(what you are looking
for).
Nuggets on the Internet
Speaking
• englishcentral.com • Teaching English: Speaking Ac
• Fonetiks < tivities
http://www.fonetiks.org/> -- <
"The online resource for http://www.teachingenglish.
org.uk/try/speaktry/speaking
pronunciation and language _activities.shtml
study.“ > -- by the BBC/British Council
• RealEnglish < on Teaching English
http://www.real-english.com/r • Conversation questions for ESL
eo/index.html cl
> -- online videos that are
useful for Oral Interaction at • http://www.eslgold.com/assro
Beginner level, Intermediate I, oms
Intermediate II, Intermediate
III, and Advanced; free
registration
Listening
• Randall's ESL Cyber • http://www.jw.org/index.
Listening Lab (www.esl- html
lab.com) • http://www.loquendo.co
• Apple - Movie Trailers m/en/demo-
(www.apple.com/trailers) center/interactive-tts-
• elllo.com demo/
• eslpodcast.com • http://www.oddcast.com
/home/demos/tts/tts_tra
n_example.php
• http://www.voanews.co
m/learningenglish/home/

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