INTERNATIONAL MINDEDNESS

THEME

DIRECTIONS

LEISURE AND
WORK

Technology
Students will make and small project about the applications that
people do to the internet in the USA and in Ecuador.
Students will work in groups of five (four groups per each class)
Students will make interviews to the teachers, partners, and family
members.
Students will research about internet applications and most
common uses for it in the USA.
Students will focus their research on education, leisure, and work,
applications for the internet in the USA an Ecuador.
The results will be contrasted and discussed in class.
Through these activities, students will be encouraged to be:
inquirers, knowledgeable, thinkers, bold and reflective.
The act of making surveys of Internet applications makes students
to analyze and research a topic of interest and sometimes
controversial.
Students will be aware of how the internet affects life in crucial
aspects (work, study, entertainment, etc.) in developed countries
and in Ecuador.
The lesson will finish with advantages and disadvantages of been
an active user of internet and the importance of the English
language to get the maximum performance of this tool.

RESOURCES
Computers
Internet
Projector
Paper
Paper charts
Slides to show comparison.
Images pictures
Show a table to organize
advantages
and
disadvantages.

TIME
4 periods
15 minutes per
group to present
the results.
15 minutes for
class discussion.
10 minutes to a
general summary.