Sunday, November 25, 2012

Glovico - the fairtrade online language school



     At sites like Glovico.org, students can set up language lessons with a native speaker who lives in another country and attend the lessons via videoconferencing. Learning from a native speaker, learning through social interaction, and being exposed to another culture’s perspective are all incredible educational advantages that were once only available to those who could foot a travel bill. Now, setting up a language exchange is as easy as making a videoconferencing call.

6 comments:

  1. how great is that now we have technology, and thanks to it is possible this learning style which is the biggest advantage students have nowadays because not only languages or information can be taught and learned but it can also happen an interchange of cultures, which would help the students to have different perspectives and opinions about people's tradition, customs and lifestyles.

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  3. It is incredible the amount of opportunities technology has developed through the years for communicating, teaching and learning, which has been really helpful for all human beings, who are interested in acquiring knowledge and improving their skills, as a consequence of its usefulness is why nowadays most of these techniques are used in the learning process, not only to help students improve their abilities through different ways, but for encouraging them to know about other countries' cultures and maybe to know how their educational process work and what kind of things or strategies they can take out and use in their own educational development.

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  4. learning from others have been the result of a worth knowledge, the interaction and explosure of the abilities that posses everybody, make the feedback an exellent tool for share a take advantage of other learning expierence. this as many ways of improve the language are helpful for engage and identify with de diversity of language.

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  5. Technology is an extraordinary tool which is governing the entire planet, since earning money, meeting friend, acquiring knowledge, having fun, and sharing customs and values with other people, have been important aspects that we can take advantage through the technology, and in this video, it is very clear that thanks to the technology there does not exist any limitations that forbid us to speak or to share with a person who is far away from us. In this sense, technology has changed the paradigms about expressions of time and space. However, technology not only focus in aspects like this, in the acquisition of English as a second language as well, it is very useful because it grants people with the tools they need to absorb any amount of data that can help them to improve their language. In this way, technology must be a priority in the education system; educators must pay attention to this, and be informed about the use of the technology in class in order to carry a good teaching process. Due to this fact, technology has become the cement that connects the entire world.

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  6. technology is getting better everyday and the learning process is growing up and, that is an excellent opportunity people have. they can learn about anything through the internet, because this tool has been a very usefull tool for students around the world.
    Ardorys Luna

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