Week3- Young people typically lug in to new technology far more often on their own time than in school- Comments

In fact, we are sorrounded by technology. We as human beings have the capacity to decide about the time we spend by using technology. I think nothing can substitute a teacher. Technology can help teachers to teach better or to catch the attention of students for a short time but we as educators know that human beings create those machines to serve people. It is very sad when people let technology control their lives. When I was working on a testing department, I remember that a students bagan to cry when he couldn't pass the math test because she didn't have a graphic calculator. In my country we learn to draw graphics or fuctions without using any graphic calculator because we use our best machine, our brain. It is so sad when a teacher can teach without having a video or any internet exercise available. We as teacher are very creative and if we don't have available techonology for different reasons we need to use other activities. I am not telling technology is not useful, I am just telling that we shouldn't let that technology controls or lives. There a time for techonlogy but we supposed to spend more time interacting as human beings and having a face to face learning process. I use techonology in class. Some videos for not more than 10 minutes, to introduce a class and then I make my students disscuss what hey saw. I think this is the best way to teach Spanish culture. When I need to focus on Spanish grammar, there are some interesting practices on internet that are useful but when my students use the computer I am always with them to answer any possible question about the theory. The reason is beacuse if I let my students along they will play any other thing on internet instead to practice grammar. What I am trying to say is that children and adolescents always wanted to do what they want and not what the teacher says. That's why teachers have a lot of mission to manage thier classes. My last idea is do not let technology control or teach the class for a teacher, an do not let children's and adolescents' desires make teachers use more technology than they should. Let teachers decide what is the best way to use technology at their class but teachers should be trained to use any kind of technology at class to us it based on their criterion.