Cyberspaces vrs Books

There are many advantages on having acces to different cyberspaces to get information. First of all, we can save time, since we can get on different websites, choose information, compare and in few minutes we can gather ideas and by "copy pasting" we don`t have the need of typing.

Meanwhile, some years ago, when we used to go to the libraries, we had to take time to go there, ask for information to the person in charge, fill formulas to get the books, read one by one the books related to the topics we were interested in, and then copy in a notebook by handwriting all the information, or in the best cases, photocopy the parts of the books we needed. After all this time consuming process, we had to type or write.

Nowadays, we have the chance to develop more intertained activities, that would help the students to have fun and learn at the same time, such as musical videos, movies, games, or just by letting them look for information is fun enough for them.

Since most of the people is involved with the internet, we as teachers must be updated, and find ways to use technology in our classroom, specially in learning English as a second language, we can have acces to different activities to help the students to improve their skills such as pronunciation, for example singing in a karaoke, and even better having conversations through Skype or any messenger with native speakers of English. In this way we can help the students to get involved in the culture which is an important part of the learning process, and have virtual trips abroad.