WEEK 7

It's been a great week in the course. We read some very honest articles about autonomy where the conclusion made us realize that fostering autonomy is very hard. I have to admit that I have always thought that I encourage my students to be autonomous but i don't keep track of students' work outside the classroom. I try to guide my students to independent learning, since I am a self taught myself, but I only ask them informal questions about what they do outside the class and I don't really provide a space in my classes for students to reflect on their learning process. Reading about autonomy I became aware of the fact that I have to go beyond and really make sure my students are doing more that fill in the blank activities on line, they have to decide what to look for and not only follow my instructions to work outside the classroom. They should be taken into account in the decision making process and be active participants. Besides autonomy, we learned about ways to work with just ne computer in the classroom and saw all what we can do with the computer and the roles students can play in classes with one computer. With a little bit of creativity we can get the best of technology with limited resources.