This document discusses how technology has changed teaching and learning. It notes that students now have shorter attention spans, so teachers need to incorporate more graphics and entertainment into their lessons. However, everything used must have an educational purpose, such as using history facts in a game. The document provides examples of using the weather, word of the day, and digital books to engage students in a fun yet informative way. It emphasizes that teachers must adapt to modern times by using technology to win over students and teach them life skills.

1. ON THE WAY TO TECHNOLOGY CHALLENGES
By Fernando Amado
Richmond ELT Trainer

4. Back to the
Future
Now (Skype)

8. Do you know?
• Walkman • Smart….
• Compact Disc • iPhone – iPad
• Blueray • Flat screen
• DVD • Videoconference
• CD • Chat
• HDMI • Mouse
• Internet • Web

9. Technology is changing the world
Take a look….

10. And…. Teaching?

11. Technology changes all the time
• So, how has technology changed our lives?
– We don’t have time to waste!
– Better graphics, more realistic
– Different ways to communicate
– Closer relationship with other cultures

12. What do we need?
• Students now have a smaller attention span:
it’s the era of better graphics!
• No time to waste.
• Entertainment + learning.

13. Getting your students’ attention

14. • Each teacher has his/her own way of starting a
class: with a song, with a prayer, with a game.
• Why not with an online resource?
• Increase your students’ general culture or
prepare a little game for them.

15. Day in the history
Video and a list
of events that
happened that
day
You can choose the
date
www.history.com/this-day-in-history

16. What’s the weather like today?
• http://weather.ya
hoo.com/peru/li
ma-metropolitan-
area/lima-
418440/?unit=c

17. Be a weather reporter
• Begin your class asking about the weather.
• Open the weather website.
• One student will be the weather reporter.
• Other students will be callers, asking for the
weather report in their cities.

18. Word of the day
www.superkids.com/aweb/tools/words/wod.shtml

19. Train game

20. • Opening English class has to
be an event! Students are
Take those bits of supposed to get motivated
information and use for learning.
the grammar or
vocabulary behind it:
• The simplest things can have
weather, tenses, new
words. a great effect on your kids.
Remember, everything • History, for example, gives
must have a purpose: them general knowledge.
have them make a Cross-curricular activities
presentation, sentenc
es or a game!
are always enriching.

21. Shortcuts!

22. Motor skills

23. Digital books

25. Find it

26. Saving time
• No time for anything, no
time to waste.
• The illusion of speeding up.
• Shortcuts are everywhere.

27. Entertainment + learning

28. Draw something!

29. Spelling bee – literally!

30. Entertaining AND educational?
• They don’t have to know.
• Make your classes
unforgettable.
• Put a twist in it!

31. Incorporate
Entertain them, but technology
teach them
Shortcuts
Win them over

32. Remember
• Our students are digital natives.
• They have a real and virtual social life.
• We live in a global village.
• Technology is changing the education.
• We have to teach our students life skills.
• We have to adapt to modern times, times can
not adapt to us.

33. Reflect
Think
Take risks

34. The principle goal of education is to create men and
women who are capable of doing new things, not
simply repeating what other generations have done.
JEAN PIAGET