How can teachers take advantage of the tools offered by ICT?
Posted: Mon Jan 06, 2025 7:06 am
In your experience as a consultant and teacher, what skills or abilities does a person who wants to dedicate himself to teaching need to have?
I have given many hours of training to teachers and future teachers and what I miss most is the vocation or interest in the profession they are going to develop . It is important to understand what teaching is like, what it implies (as a self-employed or labor person), the obligations, responsibilities and implications that it entails. In addition to this, they must be competent in ICT and have the desire to learn new tools that we can incorporate into our teaching strategies. Lifelong learning is a maxim that must be present in our daily work.
There are many people who approach the teaching field as an alternative or professional outlet to see what happens - all very laudable reasons - but anyone can tell when a teacher explains in a committed way and makes their students enjoy the session. Understanding what flow is and putting it into practice is essential to being a teacher.
ICTs have a place in all areas and phases of the teaching-learning process; they can help us with planning (e.g. through Trello), with curating resources to send to our students (e.g. Padlet, diigo) and with creating stories or presenting content (e.g. Genially). If the modality is distance learning or virtual classroom, the platform new zealand phone data reports offer us usage patterns of our students and we can decide when to focus our attention or if it is necessary to provide new resources or establish new strategies.
Is there some kind of network for the exchange of resources or digital tools between teachers and professors? If not, would it be beneficial to have one?
There are initiatives in different social spaces, but not a specific network ; everything depends on the people you are connected to in the spaces you participate in. For example, it is very good to create lists with profiles of interest on Twitter that free us from the noise of the space; on Telegram there are channels set up by companies or people who are ambassadors of ICT tools with whom you can exchange resources and ask about the tools. LinkedIn is also a space that I personally find satisfying because, in addition to resources, news from the training sector and also some interesting jobs are published.
In any case, let's not forget that the important thing is the connections with people, regardless of the space in which we participate. Lately I have been focusing my attention on TikTok, which I find to be an interesting space with interesting communication possibilities within the teaching field.
I have given many hours of training to teachers and future teachers and what I miss most is the vocation or interest in the profession they are going to develop . It is important to understand what teaching is like, what it implies (as a self-employed or labor person), the obligations, responsibilities and implications that it entails. In addition to this, they must be competent in ICT and have the desire to learn new tools that we can incorporate into our teaching strategies. Lifelong learning is a maxim that must be present in our daily work.
There are many people who approach the teaching field as an alternative or professional outlet to see what happens - all very laudable reasons - but anyone can tell when a teacher explains in a committed way and makes their students enjoy the session. Understanding what flow is and putting it into practice is essential to being a teacher.
ICTs have a place in all areas and phases of the teaching-learning process; they can help us with planning (e.g. through Trello), with curating resources to send to our students (e.g. Padlet, diigo) and with creating stories or presenting content (e.g. Genially). If the modality is distance learning or virtual classroom, the platform new zealand phone data reports offer us usage patterns of our students and we can decide when to focus our attention or if it is necessary to provide new resources or establish new strategies.
Is there some kind of network for the exchange of resources or digital tools between teachers and professors? If not, would it be beneficial to have one?
There are initiatives in different social spaces, but not a specific network ; everything depends on the people you are connected to in the spaces you participate in. For example, it is very good to create lists with profiles of interest on Twitter that free us from the noise of the space; on Telegram there are channels set up by companies or people who are ambassadors of ICT tools with whom you can exchange resources and ask about the tools. LinkedIn is also a space that I personally find satisfying because, in addition to resources, news from the training sector and also some interesting jobs are published.
In any case, let's not forget that the important thing is the connections with people, regardless of the space in which we participate. Lately I have been focusing my attention on TikTok, which I find to be an interesting space with interesting communication possibilities within the teaching field.