WEEK 7: Learner Autonomy and the One-computer Classroom

Hello everybody


This week was fantastic and special for me because I'm working with my project and on friday we made the interactive power points and the presentations are very nice, so this monday they are going to present and post in the blog. 
Another files that we analizes  was  what "autonomous learning" is. According to Holec, "autonomy" is defined as "the ability to take charge of one's own learning". Furthermore, Dickinson accepts the definition of autonomy as a "situation in which the learner is totally for all of the decisions concerned with his or her learning and implementation of those decisions." From these two definitions, we can see that the learners must be independent thinkers, and should have a clear view of the whole learning process, including the purpose of learning, the aim of learning, the way of learning, the choice of materials in learning, etc. In another words, it includes everything concerned with learning.
In this process, the teacher's role has changed. We have to admit that the teachers' privileged and centered position in teaching is being challenged. Yes, teachers are no longer the only experts in imparting knowledge, but just organizers in classroom teaching activities.

Secondly we made a plan with ine computer into the class and my plan was about The students will write an essay according with the topic that they chose so they have to read the essay I'm going to give to each group an essay in order that they analyze it. When they finish to read it I present power point slides showing them the main parts in an essay and how to write it, with them to I write at that moment an essay so they have the example. 

 The students have to interchange each other discusse every topic , they choose one according with their likes and make a brainstorm, with all the ideas about the topic they write an essay with minimum 250 and maximum 300 words.

Well this week was fantastic but I'm a little tired because I'm taking a post grade program every saturday and sunday It's about Linguistic but the curriculum is to hard so I'm worried but at the same time too excited because I want to learn a lot. 

Nori 

Ecuador