WHAT DID THE COURSE CONTRIBUTE TO ME?

       
     In this century, we are surrounded by technology. It is everywhere, on the buses, at cafes, in schools and the new generation is growing up with technology. I even see some babies playing with cellphones and tablets in the baby carriages.  As preservice teachers, we should be aware of the danger :) and we should think that we may take the advantageous of technology for education. But how? Are we sufficient for using it? At the beginning of this course, I thought that I was capable enough to use technology for my education in the future. In my opinion, using technology for education would be easy. However later I learned that I had just the ability to open google and search for something.

     Thanks to this course, I discovered many sites and tools which make my teaching effective in the future. Now I think that I am a really capable of using technology for education. I can provide my students with the tools to create a song. I can teach them how to evaluate a film or create stories on the internet. I can recommend some useful mobile apps to them for learning English. In this way, I can get my students' attention, They will be more motivated to engage in the learning activities. They will be active and develop their skills like creative thinking, writing. The most important point is that they can take the pleasure in learning.

     At the end of the course, I am glad with having this course. It made me advantageous in terms of using technology beneficially. I am now aware of that there are much more tools and sites for education and they are waiting to be used. In my opinion, each preservice teacher should take a course like this course and learn how to integrate technology into his or her lessons in order to be an effective teacher and have effective teaching.