Lucky you!!! You can regularly get a connection to the Internet to communicate and receive information using a wide range of electronic devices with stunning accessories!!! Modern Computer technology is currently offering amazing additional services!
Laptop computers, MP3s, iPods, iPads,... are, as you know, great to have fun and of course, to learn. Interactive learning provides good fun. These electronic devices are available in many different colours, prices and sizes! You can easily carry your wireless laptop computer anywhere and at any time. You can find out about whatever issue you are interested in just by pressing a button on the mouse even if you are far from home. Moreover, it gives you the opportunity to obtain any kind of information from the Internet in a fraction of a second reaching, for instance, to a huge number of interesting sites as well as scanning through a thousand practical resources. Everything is on the Web.
Due to these important innovations in current mobile computing technology with educational aims, everybody can easily get virtual teaching from the Net providing useful information which obviously encourages active and specific learning.
Teachers are nowadays more concerned about their students’ needs. In fact, we have already integrated new technologies into our students’ learning experience. An innovative project that focuses on each student's personal development has been tried and tested and it is now being used in our school as well as in many other Basque schools. This project called Ikasys is defined as a multilingual system that provides support for the whole cycle of memorization and exercitation activities in a wide range of domains. It offers students a chance to get actively involved in their own learning process. It is not only a new way for students to enhance cognitive skills, but it is also a very useful tool to get valuable benefits and it can be used for a variety of educational purposes drawing special attention to the needs of all the students. The teacher can define different learning rhythm for each student considering the level of difficulty of each task, the progress of the learner, and some other aspects too.
Last year I had the opportunity to take part in this project as a designer and, of course, I'm very proud to have been involved in it. Personally, I think it will soon be a great success!!! So that is why I'm sure that students will be effectively and innovatively taught in the near future. As a teacher, I have a responsability to teach my students in a way that learning and enjoyment are both involved. If they enjoy the subject, they can develop their own skills by practising them once and again. Furthermore, students may become used to the usage of new learning strategies and eventually critical thinking may be developed so that they will make their own decisions and will be more independent in the future. Who knows?
A new era is ahead of us, anyway!!!