Week 7 - One Computer's Value

Another week has passed and made me think of technology in more depth. Reading the suggested articles and my colleagues’ comments on this week’s topic, I learned more. Everything has its value. This is the case with one computer in class too. Here let me cite a well-known proverb in a different way, making some changes: “A computer in hand is worth two or more in the computer lab.” Just one computer can inspire us to not only try existing strategies, but also discover and explore the new ones. If your students have computers at home or opportunity to use it somewhere else, your work in one computer classroom becomes easier. The students can bring their findings, creative works, and presentations and show them to class. In their turn, the teacher and students have a chance to give their feedback and evaluate them. I mentioned some examples for one computer use, though there are many others. One computer classroom requires creativity along with other skills of the teacher. A creative approach to integrating technology helps teachers to vary and enrich their lessons with one computer as the only learning and teaching technology device in the classroom. Thus, try and succeed with one computer indeed. 


This week I continued working on my project with students. They wrote their resumes and cover letters as it was assigned them as homework. In class the students shared and made peer review of their work. Then I gave feedback to their work. The students listened to sample job interviews along with their transcripts to improve their aural skills and discussed how to act in a job interview. They tried to compose their own imaginary job interview and present it in class.