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Emerging technologies make it practical to approach Teaching and learning in ways that have been advocated by scientists, theorists, and educational psychologists for years.  Advanced information technologies such as virtual reality, visualization, digital modeling, digitization, simulation, games, virtual worlds and intelligent one-on-one tutoring systems dramatically enhance teaching and learning of elusive concepts by translating abstractions into real-world contexts and providing customized instruction and individualized assessments.  

To realize the full potential of this technology and to ensure its pervasiveness in all institutions of learning and training, we must undertake a long-term, large-scale effort to research, develop, test and disseminate tools for building advanced learning systems.

Pedagogy of learning through technology

I Assimilating what has been learned

These are generally guided exercises. They are used to help students assimilate grammatical and lexical structures, as well as phonetics. They consist of the following:

-Repetition Exercises  (Word Pronunciation, Sentence Pronunciation).

_ Substitution / Transformation Exercises (Sentence Practice, Grammar Practice).

II Putting the rules into practice

These are guided exercises Special Education. Their objective is to highlight specific functional components within a language:

_ Reflection on the organization of sentence components (Word Order).

_ The use of vocabulary and grammar in fill-in-the-blanks exercises, which require students to analyze a sentence in its entirety in order to place the correct word (The Right Word, Fill-in-the-Blanks).

-Vocabulary practice with association exercises, which consist of matching a word with its synonym, antonym or a related image (Word Association, Picture / Word Association).

_ Reflection on vocabulary or grammar using texts or lexical groups, in which students must identify words belonging to a specific grammatical or lexical group (Words and Functions, Words and Topics).

III Mastering the language The objective of these types of exercises is to put the acquired knowledge into practice through written expression. The exercises consist of:

_ Guided expression Future Concepts , consisting of the transformation of context (Text Transformation).

_ Semi-guided expression, in which it is necessary to write texts based on an image or video, or to write a summary of a longer text (Written Expression).

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