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(FINAL PAPER)
Out Line
T.S. Nowadays a city lifestyle is not imaginable without having an electronic literacy.
I. Introduction
a) What is electronic literacy?
b) Importance of the electronic literacy in the daily life.
II. Electronic literacy in our life.
a) Personal life.
b) Family communication
III. Electronic literacy at job.
a) Business application
IV. Electronic literacy at school.
a) When doing assignments and presentations
b) Its importance in the B.A. in E.L.T.
V. Conclusion
Essay
Nowadays a city lifestyle is not imaginable without having electronic tools. Living in a city means that you have a job, or attend school, or both at the same time. Besides this you probably have a family; all these aspects are part of your daily life and to optimize your time, to improve and to get easier your job or assignments at school, and to establish communication with no trouble of distances; you must be electronic literated. But, what is electronic literacy? Is the use of the computer as a tool in communication, when working, at school, etc. In the next lines you will find the way in which electronic literacy is employ in three main facets of our daily life: in our personal life, at work and at school.
Let´s start talking about the way in which we use electronic literacy in our personal life. When living in a metropolis sometimes there is no time for going out to meet people or even to get a romantic partner. In answer to this problem there are hundreds of websites created to match your soul mate, get friends, etc. Another important application of electronic literacy in the personal life is to establish or maintain communication with your relatives, friends, etc. when they live far away from you; in another city, country or even in the same state but so far to visit them. Thus you can download a messenger and have a video calling with them; you can even be talking and watching more than one person at the same time. So that you can either use a computer with an internet connection to encounter people or to communicate with others just sending an e-mail or using a chat room.
The second angle of our daily life in which electronic literacy takes part is at work. Due to the fact that we live in a globalized world we have to be in touch with businessmen around the globe. This in order to update our business or just because the company where we work asks us to do so. Through the use of video-conferences, web pages, e-mails, etc. is how we can optimize costs, arrange meetings or look for better opportunities. It is important to highlight the importance of the video-conferences, specially, because with them companies save money and time when doing business out of the city we live in.
The third aspect, and the most important, is that electronic literacy is employed at school. In present times there are only a few teachers who are very traditional and only use the board, markers and a book for teaching. Instead, teachers bring to the classroom a computer, a tape recorder, speakers and a projector to perform a lesson. In the same way these teachers with an electronic literacy ask students to use technology for presentations and when doing assignments. Use of the internet when doing homework help us to save time and even money because as a substitute of going to a library you just turn on the computer. On the other hand; when you are the teacher like when studying the B.A. in E.L.T .It is mandatory to be updated with the most recent teaching techniques, and them require that you posses an electronic literacy. First of all, due to including technology when teaching has a huge impact in the students learning and interest. They tend to respond very good to it, so that you, as a teacher, would build a better relation with them.
To sum up the relevance of the electronic literacy in a city daily life, we only have to think about in all the times we use a computer or when we desire to have one. For example: when we don not have time to talk with our family and we need to send them an e-mail at least to know if they are alive or not. Or when we are working or at school and we need to finish an assignment quickly. Surely, if the entire world could acquire an electronic literacy, everything will be easier for all of us.
