Technology and Education

Nowadyas, technology has become one of the most usefull tools all aroud the world. Many people rely on this powerful mass media mean to face today´s globalized world. Likewise, the use of technology and the internet have become the far and big 19ths and 20ths century world into a small and well-known village in the earliest 21st century. Moreover, erveryday, millions of people use the internet to carry out simple things like to buy a book or send an e-mail or in most of te cases the internet is used to develop more complex activieties like to attend a video conference when one of the person is in Japan and the other one is in Colombia.

On the other hand, There is vast range of activities and processes that can be done by using technology and the internet, activities and processes that everyday are changing the world and of course the men´s mind.

In the education field case , and especifically, in the languages teaching-learning process , the internet has revolutionized the methodology and the didacticism with which, teachers and students have begun to percive foreign languges as a mean of communication and not as a group of words with rigorous rules and isolated viocabulary that do not triggers communication among languages students. In addition, the internet gives the opportunity to practice many languages with people from all around the world in real time and using real languge expressions to communicate feelings and ideas.

Moreover, new language teachers generation, are using internet as a effective tool to teach without being in a classroom in front of the students, saving time, money which contribute to learn a languge in a easier form.

Written by: Wilson Alexander Leguizamon Vargas.