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Didactic Class about Phrasal Verbs with Digital Tools

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  Didactic class application Phrasal Verbs For this presentation I planned and created the structure of my presentation according to the  homework indications to start with the canva presentation. After that I focused on looking for effective options and I decided to use Microsoft forms for the listening and speaking part and then Socrative for the reading and writting section, once I had my ideas in order and finally developed my activities I started to prepare for the oral part and also created the type of rubric that I wanted to use for the evaluative part. I think the biggest challenge that I faced during the development of this presentation was to find apps that could allow me to create diverse activities all in one. When I finally presented this in front of the audience I answered different questions about the way in which these apps could be used under a variation in the conditions of a real life classroom and this helped me to think of some quick solutions for the flaw...

How does digitalization affect basic skills in education?

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Technology is a great tool if we take into consideration all the functions that we have access to. Humanity evolved, and so did technology, everything around us has a little bit of that in its creation. But we also have the kind of technology that brought us into the digital age: smartphones, robots, computers, apps, AI, and even more. We have been learning and trying to keep up to date as much as possible. However, we are also losing our abilities, basic skills in manual tasks and even more concerning, we are losing control over our brain capacity. We cannot focus as we did before; our attention spans are becoming shorter and shorter. We want everything to be easy and instant, and so we never do anything entirely by ourselves anymore. We rely on shortcuts, quick fixes, and automated systems. We would forget everything but our phones. This growing dependency is changing how we process information and how we solve problems. Instead of thinking deeply or memorizing important facts, we Go...