BOTH DISTANT AND NEAR

During last classess we learnt how to use different kinds of technological tools for educational purposes.

One of them was the programme called AUDACITY. In my opinion, that is a very good tool for both teachers and learners in almost every age. There are many ways of using it:

1) Recording stories (with different sounds).
2) Learning foreign languages (recording your speech and listen to it to correct mistakes in pronounciation).
3) Promoting reading ( for example: children who don't like reading or who are not so good at it may be motivated to learn this skill if they know that it can be recorded).
4) Recording stories/ essays for younger children or blind kids.

During the class we tried to come up with our own story based on two paintings of our favourite painters from Poland. We recorded the story and also we added some sounds. It was a really great fun for us, and I am sure that children will also have a great time during creating such work.

Second program that we were talking about, was SCREENCAST.
Who uses this programme? Most of all teachers and students.
It has a very similar advantages as audacity, however it is also possible to make the image.
I think that screencast is a great tool for distance education.The teacher can easily prepare the whole lesson, show different materials, point at the most important parts, explain everything. That's a significant opportunity for those learners who can't participate in traditional lessons.

Maybe the future school will look excactly like that:
Every student and teacher sit in their own home and participate in the lessons using only the computer.

However, the world without traditional schools is impossible to imagine at the moment, distance learning may occur in the near future.