Implementation of fakebook: practicing your writing skills through the use of new technologies

Abstract

Nowadays the education paradigms have already changed due to the development of the new technologies. Consequently, the ICT has brought new methodologies to be implemented in our educative system. The key of these methodologies is learning autonomously, developing the learning process without depending on the teacher. This paper is based on the implementation of Fakebook, an online tool which can be used for educative purposes to create profiles based on celebrities. The main goal of the implementation is to improve the students ‘writing skills. The students, who practised with this tool, are in their first year of Bachillerato. As it has been commented before, the activity has been implemented in class developing the student’s autonomous work. After the whole experience, it can be observed how new technologies motivate the students. Moreover, Fakebook allows the students to be immersed in a tool, which is similar to the current social networks they use in their daily lives. For that reason it develops their motivation and their autonomous learning.