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We've heard of Word Clouds before, and we've seen them in our course books from this and the previous year.
They're a visual representation of words from a text, where words used with more frequency are in a bigger size.

As a way to illustrate a point or a topic, they're pretty useful and easy to design. But we don't think that Word Clouds are a must or something highly needed to help teaching.
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After watching both videos and discussing about their content, we concluded that the thing in common between them revolves around the demonstration of benefits that come from using technology as a tool for learning.

There´s a not-so-hidden message in all of this, actually. From what we can observe in Hamilton’s video, there must be a guidance for the individual to learn how to use and take advantage of technology in a safe way, so that danger could be avoided. Throughout the years we’ve observed how technology evolved, and how it helped education to improve and reach a new stage where it’s easier and more efficient.

Even though these videos are a tad outdated, they’re still useful in the means of showing us how important and necessary is to intertwine technology and education. Perhaps a little update could have perks for today’s students to familiarize themselves with the use of new devices.

It is important to take account of the pros and cons of its use, and to always investigate and find ways to fully comprehend this new technological era, and to be aware of how to exploit it and gain wonderful experiences.

We provide here a TED Talk, a showcase for speakers where they present innovating, greatly executed ideas under 18 minutes. In this conference, Jason Brown, an A level student from Wymondham High Academy, presents the topic of "Redefining Learning & Teaching usng Technology"
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Redefining Learning & Teaching using Technology. | Jason Brown | TEDxNorwichED

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Deep technology serves to provide opportunities for education to reach a new level of teaching and to draw attention to new students who are coming to the classrooms, which are increasingly embedded technology in their daily lives

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5 Technologies That Will Change Classroom Education

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Both have in common the issue of technology in education and use in schools.- I think that the hidden message is about the importance of using technology to teach.- I believed that these videos are 10 years ago, because in some of them, the one that mentions the timeline in the history of technology in education, arrives until 2010 and, from now until 2018, more resources are used, such as virtual classrooms. - Not at all, because there are a lot of teachers who aren't using tecnology in schools. 

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Both have in common the issue of technology in education and use in schools.- I think that the hidden message is about the importance of using technology to teach.- I believed that these videos are 10 years ago, because in some of them, the one that mentions the timeline in the history of technology in education, arrives until 2010 and, from now until 2018, more resources are used, such as virtual classrooms. - Not at all, because there are a lot of teachers who aren't using tecnology in schools. 

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b) Technology in Education- A future classroom https://youtu.be/uZ73ZsBkcus
c) https://www.securedgenetworks.com/blog/10-reasons-today-s-students-need-technology-in-the-classroom

4- Yes I have. They are used to summarize concepts, improve vocabulary and represent ideas.

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Today we will focus on the relationship between technology and education

1. First, watch these two videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXyCECMxhOs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFwWWsz_X9s

2. Think over this:
- What do they have in common? What do they both refer to?

Both videos refer to the importance of technology in education. What they have in common is to show the importance of technology in the classroom and to inspired us to use it in a correct ways to point our students in the right direction. The video by Hamilton suggest us to make ourselves some questions to notice if we are using technology in a right way. The other video show how successful could be a person by using technology in a right way and the importance of a teacher to be updated with new advanced technology.

- If I told you there's a hidden message for YOU, what would it be?

I think could be the importance to be updated with new advanced technology or to integrate technology effectively and meaningfully into teaching and learning? I’m not sure.

- How updated are these videos? Disregard the dates of publication.

It’s a difficult question to answer. I think they are well updated but according to my basic knowledge on technology. I think that to know How so well updated they are, I should be well updated first haha.

- Do they reflect our reality, i.e. how technology is used in education in our context?

No so well. I think that sometimes we don’t make a right use of technology at schools because of lots of reasons, sometimes because of lack of material, lack money, lack of time considering that in some schools the time for English lessons don´t take long, students assist to English lessons three or four times a week, and sometimes some parents don’t take importance to English lessons. And finally and the most important reason, because of lack of knowledge about technology.

3. Now, in this PADLET,
https://padlet.com/luna_edithelizabeth/2aso2viiunpf

a) Comment on the videos (use the questions but also your own ideas, perspectives, views, etc. too)
b) Suggest a third video that summarizes your point of view:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCi8rRfIw-8

c) Add a Google doc, an article, a blog, slides, etc. that have to do with your views, too, to back up your thoughts:
d) Comment on other people's post-its in the Padlet, too

4. Have you heard of the term WORD CLOUDS? Do you what they are used for, how they work?

a. Look for webpages to create WORD CLOUDS. Choose a text on Web. 3.0 and make your own word cloud to be shared in Padlet.
b. Share the word cloud image in Padlet but bellow, refer to how this may/may not help teaching nowadays, from your viewpoint.
That's all folks!

I strongly suggest you to work in pairs or groups of no more than three people. Otherwise, there will be way too many post-its in the wall.
However, if you happen not to agree on what to say for and against, feel free to post individually.

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The Importance of Technology in Classrooms

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These videos talk about technology and education.They show themes through images and draws, phrases,etc. They are very didactics, entertaining so that catch the attention of everyone that see. Both videos refer to the use of technology in education and classroom.

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By Joyce Waddell*

Although technology is finally being integrated into education, its use for teaching and learning still remains a challenge. Despite the fact that many schools today are privileged to have ready access to technology, trained teachers, and a favourable policy environment, the use of technology in the classroom is still low. Some attribute low levels of technology use in education to the pedagogical beliefs of teachers.

With that said, the potential of technology to enhance learning cannot be overemphasized. The use of technology is something that started a long time ago for students with special needs. For example, brail machines have been utilized for the visually impaired. In addition, special needs programs that help children with autism use technology to enhance learning. By integrating technology into education, educators aim to engender pedagogical change and address fundamental issues that affect learners with special needs. Technology can therefore be seen as both a tool and a catalyst for change.

Today, technologies used to improve and facilitate learning can be found everywhere. Leaving other contextual factors to the side - such as unequal access to technological innovations and connected technologies across schools and districts - we can only say that we have embraced technology in education when it is used for both teaching and learning. With the incorporation of technology into schools, the main purpose is to change how teachers and students gather, access, analyse, present and transmit information. This can democratize information in classrooms as well as help differentiate instruction, particularly for students with special needs.

Assistive technology for students with special needs

Assistive technology can be defined as an item, piece of equipment or product system that can be used to maintain, increase or improve functional capabilities for any person with a special need. Thus, the incorporation of educational technology can also provide benefits to students with disabilities who may be in a better position to interact with the lesson through technology. Moreover, technology can place teachers in a better position to customize learning for students with special needs.

What is the relationship between technology in education and pedagogy?

Research has illustrated that many educators have had a hard time integrating technology into education. This may be because many educators have yet to explore the relationship between technology and pedagogy. Doing so could play a huge part in encouraging critical thinking by teachers as they attempt to integrate technology into education.

At the same time, for technology to work effectively, it should only be incorporated in classroom if it is appropriate for a given instructional task. Also, technology can only be an effective teaching tool if teachers participate in decisions to adopt technology. This is because teachers have the responsibility of facilitating instruction and incorporating technology at the classroom level, yet many school administrators tend to make decisions related to technology adoption/training without consulting teachers.

How Technology can be used to Improve Learning

The following are ways that technology could be better leveraged to improve learning:

With the widespread availability of student databases that are able to track individual progress, teachers are encouraged to identify learning objectives and differentiate instruction based on the needs of their students.

Whenever teachers attempt to present instruction using technology, they should do so using a channel that is relevant to the objectives, the learning style, mode and the technology selected.

When evaluating technology-based instruction, there needs to be appropriate evaluation techniques that are in line with the methods of instruction, objectives and the technology.

Teachers can design follow-up activities when using technology to evaluate students' learning and the role technology played in that process.

Overall, technology is central to many sectors of society and its integration into the education process has great promise for student learning. With technology, one can expect increased efficiency and effectiveness on both the part of teachers and students. Technology can also prompt pedagogical change and address issues that affect learning, teaching and social organization. Technology can therefore be seen as both a tool and a catalyst for change. Students should embrace technology for them to benefit and teachers should be open to introducing technology into the classroom to improve and innovate their teaching practice.
*This week's guest blogger is Joyce Waddell. Joyce studied social work at Azusa Pacific University. She is interested in adaptive learning technologies and its impact on higher education. She has been a social media specialist and freelance blogger since 2014.

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The Role of Technology in the Educational Process

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By Joyce Waddell* Although technology is finally being integrated into education, its use for teaching and learning still remains a challenge. Despite the fact that many schools today are privileged to have ready access to technology, trained teachers, and a favourable policy environment, the use of technology in the classroom is still low.

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Technology is everywhere--entwined in almost every part of our culture. It affects how we live, work, play, and most importantly learn. With mobile and other wireless devices like the IoT becoming an increasing requirement across every industry today, it only makes sense that our schools are also effectively deploying mobile technology in the classroom. However, for many schools, implementing the latest technology is a difficult strategy to navigate.

There are two main reasons for this:

Schools are on the fence about the use of certain mobile devices; thinking they're more a burden than a strategic learning tool.

Schools want to deploy mobile devices but their network infrastructure is not capable of properly supporting the technology

In both cases it's a lose lose situation for everyone involved, especially the students.

To help your school confidently make the decision to embrace mobile technology in the classroom, we've put together a list of 10 reasons why it will benefit your students.

Then, we've outlined how your school can make sure it's ready to actually support those new/added devices.

Ten Reasons Why Your Students NEED Technology in the Classroom

1) If used correctly, mobile devices and the applications they support, will help prepare students for their future careers.

2) Integrating technology into the classroom is an effective way to connect with students of all learning styles.

3) It gives students the opportunity to enhance the interaction with their classmates and instructors by encouraging collaboration.

4) Using technology in the classroom gives teachers and other faculty members the opportunity to develop their student's digital citizenship skills. It's one thing to use mobile devices, it's a completely other thing to know how to use them correctly and responsibly.

5) Integrating technology in education helps students stay engaged. Most students today have been using mobile devices like tablets and smartphones to play and learn since they could crawl. So it only seems logical to align today's classrooms with the way that your students want and are used to learning.

6) Combining new tech like VR (virtual reality) with traditional classroom instruction is one example of how the introduction of new technology can enhance the learning experience and create new opportunities.

7) When mobile technology is readily available and performing correctly in the classroom, students are able to access the most up-to-date information quicker and easier than ever before.

8) The traditional passive learning model is broken. With technology in the classroom the teacher becomes the encourager, adviser, and coach.

9) Technology helps students be more responsible. Owning your own device or borrowing the school's devices gives students the opportunity to improve their decision making skills as well as taking ownership of a valuable (and often times expensive) device. Again, this needs to be complemented by proper digital citizenship training to see the best results.

10) Technology transforms the learning experience. Students have access to an incredible amount of new opportunities. From learning how to code to learning how to better collaborate across teams and with their instructors--technology empowers students to be more creative and be more connected. New tech has super-charged how we learn today.

If your school is still debating how technology can benefit your students, teachers and administrators, I hate to break it to you, but the future of education is already here and you're missing an unbelievable amount of opportunities.

How to Support Technology in the Classroom

One of the biggest mistakes schools make when deploying or allowing new devices onto their campus and into their classrooms, is by not making sure their network infrastructure is up-to-date and/or sufficient enough to properly support their end-users.

We've seen numerous situations where schools have bought and deployed new tablets or new laptops, only to find that nothing worked because their Wi-Fi network couldn't support the new devices.

With tight budgets you can't afford to buy new devices and have them not work; you need to get it right the first time.

Your wireless network or infrastructure is what makes using new mobile devices possible. Yes, wireless is a specialized skill and yes they're not cheap, but they're also more attainable than you might think.

After engineering and deploying more than 1000+ wireless systems over the last 11 years, we've learned a lot about what should work and what actually does work.

A few of the main takeaways are:

Your Wi-Fi system needs to always align with the devices that are connecting to it

Technical resources are expensive and hard to find

User expectations are higher than ever

Everything is constantly changing (devices, applications, how we use Wi-Fi, device numbers, number users, even the physical environment)

What makes this especially challenging for schools is that Wi-Fi networks today only have a useful shelf-life of between three to four years at the very best.

Knowing that traditionally, wireless networks cost a lot of money to design, deploy and manage, how do schools with almost no available budget get what they need?

Using Wi-Fi as a Service, your school can have the exact wireless system it needs to support any technology plan it wants to implement. Whether it's new tablets as part of a 1:1 program or BYOD, Wi-Fi as a Service enables schools of any size to successfully embrace technology and the mobile devices their students want and need.

Wi-Fi as a Service offers a variety of benefits, for example:

Affordable monthly payments

Scalability to grow with your needs up or down

Guarantees you always have the latest system in place

Allows you to prioritize your budget towards other mission-critical projects

Using a subscription, Wi-Fi as a Service allows schools to budget over-time exactly what they need to deliver the best class of service to their students, staff and guests.

Want to learn more? Check out our pricing pageto compare plans and get started today!

*Editor's note: This blog post was originally posted in September 2013 and has been completely revamped and updated for thoroughness and accuracy.

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10 Reasons Today's Students NEED Technology in the Classroom

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Technology is everywhere--entwined in almost every part of our culture. It affects how we live, work, play, and most importantly learn. With mobile and other wireless devices like the IoT becoming an increasing requirement across every industry today, it only makes sense that our schools are also effectively deploying mobile technology in the classroom.

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How can we use technology to enhance learning? (LEARNING FUTURES - NITA'S STORY)

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Hi, everyone! It's Maga, Ayelén Amaya and Emmanuel Barros.
As regards the videos, we think that they are quite updated although not completely. However, they work well in order to establish a relationship between technology and education and their evolution through history. Also, they made us reflect about how our educational system works nowadays. That is to say, how lessons are delivered and if they are really updated and connected to the technological context in which we are living. We strongly believe that in the future, as teachers, we will have to know how to work with technology in the classroom and to be aware of the changes in the process of teaching and learning.

We found this interesting video about ICT and education, hope you like it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXs5O1yGlg4

And this is an article about about the importance of ICT in education: http://www.iosrjournals.org/iosr-jrme/papers/Vol-1%20Issue-4/B0140308.pdf

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We are both agree that the relationship between education and technology is completely necessary. They needed each other. Together are unstoppable.

They have in common the fact that they try to demonstrate what benefits have, besides the traditionals elements used in the past. These videos show us the evolution and how the education has improve all the time. Also, these videos focuses in the idea of using techonology responsibly.

We think that the videos probably need a little refresh because don't show the uses of the technology right now on classes.

As a we said before, these videos don't show us the completely reality of how technology is used, especially in our context. This year, in classes we used these tools a lot. Especially when we have to share information, for homeworks, extra activities, extra practice, practical works, etc.

But we think that sometimes is difficult to introduce technology in schools. Some of them doesn't have wi-fi connection or computers. And in some other schools, cellphones are still forbidden.

In our opinion, techonology is completely essential. Especially when we tried to learn for ourselves. In the internet, we found a lot of information about any them. In our process of learning a foreign language, with the technology, we found a source which helps us at the time of practising or when we want to go deep on a particular lesson.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=jmUuBjwcKOc&feature=youtu.be

https://www.businessinsider.com/how-technology-is-shaping-the-future-of-education-2017-12

https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2018/05/04/how-education-and-technology-are-evolving-together/

Students:
Chacana, Mariano (MUN° 2850)
Pacheco, Micaela (MUN° 2851)

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TIC - Relationship between Technology and Education

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqTTojTija8

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/education-plus-development/2017/10/31/teaching-problem-solving-let-students-get-stuck-and-unstuck/

https://dl.sps.northwestern.edu/blog/2015/09/using-technology-to-develop-students-critical-thinking-skills/

1. Both videos have in common the topic of technology. They talk about how it was used in education during the development of the mankind and in nowadays, and also the correct use of technology in education. On the other hand, they questioned the use of technology in a very suitable way, for example in the first video, Hamilton asked: "What world will our students exit school into? And what skills they need to be successful? We need technology to foster these skills and point your students in the right direction?” The idea which they want to transmit is that people question if it is really necessary the use of technology for the day to day education.

2. We think that the hidden message is not to prohibit the use of technology for the students in a classroom. The correct technique is learning to combine the use of modern things but creating different ways to be creative and communicative. The message that is presented is that technology and education are closely related and if we want to be good teachers someday, we have to learn how to take advantage of technologies and use them to teach and explain.

3. We think that these videos are recently updated because they talk about a predicament that is really important today and it’s true that people spend money in technological things.

4. In our opinion, it reflects our reality today because technology has been growing since many years ago and now it has an important impact in our life, consequently it has begun to be used in education because it is a useful and easier way to transmit information. Although, not in all cases because some people continue with the traditional classes and in some locations they make use of the technology to learn.

The two videos deal with the close relationship that exists between technology and education and how one of them influences the other and vice versa.

“The history of technology in education” talks about the evolution of the different tools that were considered technologies at certain times and how they helped to develop many activities to facilitate education and learning. At the same time, it also shows that the whole process that someone carries out will influence its life later, for example if they learn with different technologies, when they become teachers they will be able to apply them to their students, consequently, what we do in the present can shape the class of tomorrow.

“Technology in education” talks about the objectives of including technology in schools and how to use it. There are different ways in which technology can be part of our life: ineffectively, productively, in dangerous ways, to improve our environment, among others. We must think about abilities such as creativity, imagination, communication, collaboration, critical thinking and how technology can help us develop and apply them inside and outside the school.

The technology isn't just a caprice, but necessary nowadays. The age of the massive and simultaneous data manipulation is enforcing itself. Technology would no probably be a stranger at all, but also it would not be associated it with school and that's a mistake. Internet is the biggest provider of data and knowledge, an infinite source of sources, it's just like a colossal book which allows you to surf into the deep, and so if it is the case why not try to learn to read that book and use their provided tools?

On the other hand, technology is useful in itself but it can have positive or negative consequences depending on how it is used. One of the profitable ways is using technology to develop student’s critical thinking skills and let them get ‘stuck’ and ‘unstuck’. It is important to create a classroom environment in which students are problem solvers and learn a lot of strategies to be successful in a future. In conclusion, technology is a beneficial and practical instrument to evolve abilities like communication, synthesis, analysis, problem solving and reflection as long as it is efficient, allows cognitive development and everyone has access to it.

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Technology in Education. By Laura and Graciela

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Hello, We are Laura and Graciela. We saw the video about “Technology in education” and also “The history of technology in education”. The first one makes us think if we use technology effectively or we have a powerful tool that we don’t really take advantage of. Technology allows our students and us to be creative, work in groups, keep engage with games, songs and activities and the most important thing is that the subject we teach allows our students to communicate and use language in a productive and personal way. And the second one it’s a kind of childlike story in order to understand the evolution of technology through the history of humanity, it’s very simple so as to keep in mind how technology has improved along many centuries.

Both videos share the idea that technology is a great and powerful tool to use in education. And it has been in that way since prehistoric times. With the passing of time technology has evolved for the better and kept its importance in relation to education. But if we don’t use it in a smart way it’s just another misused tool.

It's not such a clear message but if you look deep inside and think about both videos we think the main idea is to use technology in a good and productive way. To use it in order to improve our classes and not just as something that is fashionable. It's a challenge to find the correct and engaging way to use technology in our classes. Our students need to learn about the world that surrounds us because they are going to use the language to communicate.

We think that the videos are updated because they make us realized about our teaching practices today, even though they may have some years on the web.

They don’t reflect our everyday teaching because we don’t have access to most of the tools used nowadays worldwide. We have to try to get the best of our students with just a handful tools available. We as a third world country are really far away from the use of this kind of technology in most of our public or private schools.

The title of the following video summarises the central idea : a magical story. It was like magic how things changed for both teachers and students with the arrival of technology. And how their learning strategies changed for the better. It shows the infinite ways in which technology can be used to enrich and make classes more dynamic and engaging. It shows how real classes became alive with the correct use of technology.

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We haven’t heard the term WORD CLOUD before but we’ve seen some and found them quite interesting.

WORD CLOUDS ( also known as text clouds or tag clouds) work in a simple way: the more a specific word appears in a source of textual data (such as a speech, blog post, or database), the bigger and bolder it appears in the word cloud. The idea of using this kind of tool is to highlight important words in a text.

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From our very personal opinion this kind of tool may be really useful and attractive in classes today because students are getting tired of the traditional way of learning new items of vocabulary from a boring list on books.

We imagine using this kind of tools to present a set of words to a group of children or teens and ask them to identify the different words, write them down on their notebooks and illustrate or group them etc. It would be a great and fun activity to start a new unit.