Language Teachers in a Computer Lab (PART 1)

Once again, language learning and technology. This time I will express my idea of what are the roles of a teacher in a computer lab.

What is different in going to a computer lab with students and the students doing the work by themselves? nowadays, 95% of the students have the internet at home, and the other 5% has it just right around the corner. The difference resides in the use pupils take from the internet, when no teacher in the class the students tend to avoid long processes and this means not take the advantage the software can extract.

But it is true that many are the teacher that feel like babysitters in a computer lab, just helping computer issues or just solving very simple steps some students jumped because of their possible difficulties with the hardware. That is right, that is not the best language teacher scenario. What can we do for that? it is probed that computer lab, when they work perfectly (software and hardware), are the ultimate tool for language learning, a computer can repeat a word as many times as the student want, without the necessity of having the teacher in front of us for such matter, remember (one teacher for 30 students!!!)

What teachers need is to make sure every computer lab have at least one responsible for the hard and software problems, instead of the teacher doing somebody's else job.

End of part 1 - To be continued...