What are ICTs? Information and Communication Technologies They are diverse technological devices that permit to communicate us each other and exchange differents contents of information.
Examples of ICTs
Learners can learn of easy and funny manner. How do ICT help improve education? They can attract more the attention of students. They permit an open and distance teaching and learning. They do possible to talk to long distance.
Are ICT useful in TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language)? Why? There are many utilities on internet and applications we can use to learn and improve our English language. Any person can access to the information he or she needs anytime and anywhere in the world.
Web 2.0 tools They are different web sites permit to users to share information and create content with various people. For instance, blog, wikis, social networks and environments to share resources.
BLOG It is a virtual personal diary where we can publish, share information about any topic, for example news, knowledge, or personal thoughts. This tool permit to users do comments and establish a dialogue. Therefore, it’ll increase the knowledge.
SOCIAL NETWORKS They are interactions between people in a virtual environment. People can share their interests, personal information, likes and dislikes. In these web sites we can do groups to work in any task and share our knowledge.
Environments to share resources They are places on internet where we can store content or resources and see them when we want to do it. Also, these recourses can share to public. For example, Google Drive, Dropbox, Skydrive, Slideshare, virtual platforms, etc.