Harness Your Students' Digital Smarts

  -   Davis believes that students need more than a sheet and paper and a pencil to fully develop their academic’s performances. She believes that in order to attract the attention of all of the students; they need to feel personally invested in the process. The goal is to connect students to the world. This is where media tools become interesting for students all around the world.  It offers, to students, great possibilities when it comes to sharing ideas, and learning more about interesting topics in order to develop their critical thinking skills.

  -   First of all, she stated that what empower students is the feeling of sharing with one and another. She thinks that students should be thinkers, and that they should be provided with stimulating materials that shall raise their level of interest high enough to provoke motivation and curiosity about related topics which would also develop their critical thinking skill. There are programs in which students learn how to teach which is very interesting since it do not only serve them as a great revision tool, but they also develop their metacognitive skill.

  -   When you got great ability with computers, it feels like there is no limit to what you can do. If students are raised to master technologies, they will, without a doubt achieve great things. They are exposed to other cultures therefore; they are exposed to a different way of seeing and considering things which contribute to respect for individual’s opinions and which also inspire them to enlarge their way of seeing things.

  -   I believe that E-tandem, for example, should be used during our TLE-1041’s course. IT would be great to share email with low level students during a whole session. Future teachers could improve their metacognitive skill while students could benefit from formals reviews in relation to their performance, and they could also benefit from exchanges of good quality.  I would, as well, use a forum of discussion with my classroom, about the same way Sabrina Priego does with her own students.