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A As I mentioned in my previous article, we are living in a new era now. We as teachers, we must be conscious of that. Our students does not have the same expectations regarding the teaching experience and the tools that the teachers should use in class. Most of Millennial are expecting a dynamic class and they are expecting teachers capable to handle the traditions, the knowledge as well as the technology.  It is amazing now how many opportunities Teachers have around the world; technology have allowed us to live in a connected and hyper connected world. We can be chatting here face to face while there is somebody learning Chinese Mandarin with a colleague in China. Is not that an amazing thing?  However, we have to be captious with the use of the "Social Networks, Communities of Practice, and Personal Learning Networks", especially with the first ones. Why? Due Technology can connect us but not expose us to people with bad intentions. (I kno...

We have the opportunity to grow every day. Each day is passing we become wiser or that is the goal or the natural course of being on Earth. While some people evolving others are involving.  What makes the difference between those types of people? We must observes two words resistance and assertiveness.     What are these two Word so important? They could determine our professional or personal grow in every area of our lives. They reflects the attitude that we can assume in front of each obstacle. Regarding the use of technology, people have the option to resist to its use and be afraid of them or they just can figure out how they can use them for their own goodness. We can see this example clearly when Internet was created and launched; there were people that were afraid of that and resisted to use it. On the other hand, they were a lot of people that were opened to use it and they started to learn how to use it. The last exampl...

Nowadays, there are certain elements that have become so popular. Sometimes, we can hear people talking about them and we can feel that we are out of the place. Podcast is the case, many people are using this/those videos to record relevant information o simple information that they want to register. However, I was asking to an expert about the importance of Podcasting for us as teacher. He just told me this: PODCASTS make you powerful; they make you stronger and help you to go further that you think you could go. He was explaining to me that he works in an enterprise that edit and have a quality control to some customers that creates them. Additionally, he told me about people that they just take a topic talk about whatever they want to talk but nothing specific or particular. He just said me you do not need to have such an interesting topic; you should have the desire of communicating a message to someone and publish. The rest come later. If we understand, how pow...