Eloisa Flores

Analysis of Difficulties of Spanish Teachers to Improve  Students’ Digital Reading Competence Technology has become part of everyday life in one aspect or another. It has created a new era of a digital world. Digital technologies have changed the way many tasks are done. Especially in the realm of education, digitization has become the new norm in various ways. Teachers and students alike have felt the impact of this shift to digital educational formats. These technologies have changed the way teachers instruct, as well as the way students learn. It has evolved into online lessons and digital materials and texts. Technology has transformed the manner in which digital texts are produced and displayed. Which has led students to learn digital skills to be able to read these forms of texts accurately. It has also led to the rise of a new form of literacy that students must have in order to be successful readers.      The article I chose to analyze this week is about t...

  The Use of Technology in Second  Language Education      The article I chose to review is about the use of technology in second-language education. I found it to be very insightful in the realm of how the lack of technological resources can affect individuals learning second language learners. Second language learners (L2s)  are people acquiring a second language and are non-native speakers of that language. They are in the acquisition process of learning a new language. It is often a long and daunting process as I can speak from experience as a bilingual educator. I see firsthand as my students go through a journey as they learn English as a second language. It is definitely no easy task teaching them a new language and guiding them in transitioning from their native language, which is Spanish for my students. I can relate to this article in the way that second language acquisition must be thought of as a process that teachers need to assure they are sup...

  The Digital Divide Within the Context of Language      The first article I chose to review is about the digital divide and how language is a barrier that English language learners must cross. It leads to inequality within technology and the digital world especially when it comes to their education. As I wrote my article analysis, I connected with the author's point of view. I feel the article made several valid points as to how ELLs (English Language Learners) are not provided many times with the same digital resources and technologies as English speakers.       As a bilingual teacher myself who teaches all subject areas in English and Spanish, this topic and article really hits home and resonates with me. It is something that my students and I deal with in real-world situations. We must translate a lot of content for our students to comprehend it. I, along with many other teachers, find ourselves having to create our own resources in our studen...

Topic: The Digital Divide Digital Inequality for English Language Learners in K-12 Education:  How the lack of resources, technologies, and access affect ELLs The Digital Divide      It is apparent that our modern-day society is technology driven in many ways. A wide range of factors in our lives rely on some form of technology. It is only natural that this has led to the strong presence of educational technology in schools. Technology access varies from school to school and person to person depending on accessibility. Unfortunately, not all people are created equal regarding digital access to different forms of technology, which creates a divide caused by inequality. But, before one examines the notion of a digital divide, we must first ask ourselves what is a digital divide. A digital divide is created when people from various demographics such as socioeconomic status, race, and educational achievements, lead to a significant separation between people's technolog...