What do we know about teaching tools?

Teaching English is not an easy task, and it gains difficulty when it comes to adolescents whose main interests are related to video games, computers and mobile phones. So, what happens when we have to roganize our classes in order to call their attention? We live in a society in which everything is connected provided the fact the main tool we use to communicate each other is our mobile phones. Therefore, I consider teachers should adapt their classes to the changes we are experiencing. 

To be honest, I have never been extremelly intresed in this field. I am not very good working with my computer and I prefer to do everything as we used to. However, yesterday I realized that using internet tools in my classes is a must. I was on my 'Tutoria i Orientació' lessons when our teacher showed us hundreds of websites and platforms related to education. There exist a great number of education platforms but today I am going to focus on three of them which are the ones that mostly called my attention.

Issuu:

Issuu is a social platform in which anybody can publish any kind of article or piece of information related to issue. It is quite easy to use, you just type what you are looking for at the top of the page and then hundreds of articles, magazines and newspapers appear. 

Here I add the link to one of the magazines I chose. I is about how children use their tablets and for which porpuses.

http://issuu.com/tempomedia/docs/tie-4-2013

Tiching:

Tiching is a website about education which is full of tools teachers share and use to organize and prepare their lessons. You can share your own expiriencies and use other teacher's materials to teach. I consider this website very useful because sometimes teachers get confused and they had too many things to think of, so it is very important to know how to organize themselves.

http://es.tiching.com/

Educared:

Educared is another platform related to education which is mainly focused on the publication of updated information about education practice either in schools or high schools. I would say that this platform has called my attention because it has the most updated versions of education in our country and therefore you are aware of the way it works, being aware of the education situation in our country is very important in order to be a good teacher; because the more you know about it, the more you can work on it.

http://educared.fundacion.telefonica.com.pe/

In short, I have shown you some of the websites internet offers to the audience to work with. They are tools we can use to improve the way we teach. There are some occasions in which teachers may think there cannot go on with the porpuses they had at the beginning of the course because they don't work. My advice is not to get nervouse; look for information, you will be rapidly informed about how to organize and structure your classes and, what is more important, how to call your students' attention.