The role of the technology today

What is Mindmeister Is a digital tool to create maps also is an essential and helpful website to practice writing collaborating with peers online in order to develop, edit, present to an audience and share ideas in a graphic shape. This website will help us to contribute with our creativity, the same way is affordable and free for all individuals. The access to this tool people may have signed in through some application, such as, facebook profile or gmail account, then it may start to work in a map. How is it works? To get access to Mindmeister people can sign in with an account of some website that is already registered. This tool is divided into 4 categories since you can stay updated for free on this site or even pay for other programs. This website facilitates in order to update relevant information about topics, Mindmeister creates collaborative ways even students can share material between colleagues, Moreover it’s possible to store any workshop and save it online in order to ac...

  What is Redlang? Readlang is a website which engages individuals from different ages to learn how to read in different languages, such as English, German, Spanish and so on. This is accomplished by selecting from the wide list of texts that introduce these languages from beginner level up to reach a level where people develop complex reading abilities; these texts vary in topics that go from fiction to conversations and dialogs. Moreover, this tool is useful to learn new words and vocabulary due to its translating function in real-time whenever you click on a word you don’t know, helping students get through texts quicker and making these reading tasks less stressful. What’s more, all the words you select get added to a word list and the application automatically generates flashcards which can be used for review. Each flashcard is displayed with the sentence in which you first encountered the word so it doesn’t become decontextualized. Selecting a response to “Did you remember?” ...

  What is lyrics training? Is directed towards an audience worldwide, the average is between 14 and 15 years old, however it is a helpful tool when developing and practicing the skill of listening and grammar through music for all ages. It is an application that we can download for free, so is affordable for most of the community who have smart devices because this tool is used in technology. That aspect facilitates the learning process overall for people who want to invest their time to acquire knowledge and do not have sufficient time to be involved in a course of language, then they can study remotely. This application has several languages to develop the abilities as well, moreover the application has different levels so the audience can choose the difficulty they would want. The application has 560.000 users around the world, to maintain the services, the customers can share their activity, even edit and upgrade more material and collaborate with other learners. Fàbregas, L. (...

  What is Quizizz? Quizizz is a platform of trivia, this software can be use in class in work groups, previous revision of a test, formative evaluations and answer questions  How is it works? Quizizz is a unic platform were the student can join by google classroom, when we start to work in Quizizz as a teacher we can see all the quiz that our student answered before. In the panel we have the search to general question and specific questions as english teachers, in colections we can save multiples test already done by the platform or test that we want to do in class. Even in Quizizz we hace a ''meme section'' to help the student to relax before, in the middle or after the test In Quizizz we have 4 different way to do the test, these are: Multiple choise, fill the blank space, open respond and poll. Finally we can share the test by a link or by google classroom notification to our students. Why is this particular tool or technology relevant to language learning? What appr...

    Why is this particular tool or technology relevant to language learning? What approaches to language learning or research underpin the use of this technology? This tool proves its relevance by providing an alternative to traditional classroom’s activities when reviewing/reinforcing previous knowledge and to present new content dynamically. Most, if not every, student has a smartphone in which they can install the app and practice in class and outside the classroom. One of the approaches that considers the use of technology such as this for language teaching is the Game-based learning, which refers to the borrowing of certain gaming principles and applying them to real-life settings to engage users (Trybus 2015).    How might you use it to foster language learning? Think about your target audience . Considering the versatility of the app, the target audience may be any class between 5th and 12th grade.  Expecting the school may teach a language since the ...