Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Technology Project Plan
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Technology Project :
6th grade ESL
• Students are culminating the language form of the past tense
• To show they grasp the use, students will create a presentation about a previous vacation or family event
• There must be pictures and at least 3 sentences per picture
• The presentation will be made with either prezi or flipsnack
Projects will be displayed on class blog
Nets for Students:
Net 1: Students demonstrate creative thinking, construct knowledge, and develop innovative products and processes using technology
Nets for Teachers:
Net 2: Design and Devolop Digital-Age learning experiences and asssessments
Learning Standards (There will be more):
Communication
EALR: 3 The student uses communication skills and strategies to effectively present ideas and one’s self in a variety of situations
Component: 3.2 Uses media and other resources to support presentations
GLE: 3.2.1 Uses technology and resources to support or enhance a presentation
Writing:
Reflection #7
As I was working in my els literacy classes and designing a pronunciation program for a younger student, I was lamenting to my teacher about the difficulty I have using the voice text feature on my phone and how it has shown me that I need to be better at pronouncing my words for clarity. She then had a thought bubble, "You could use that with your students!" I thought this would be a great way to integrate technology into a lesson and help students realize how other people are hearing them without necessarily using a video camera. Students could use a voice text application whether it be on a phone or something like it, I know there is one for the computer but I cannot remember the name, and speak into it and see if there are clear enough for the correct words to be written by the program.
Blog Assignment #9
The idea of having students record all their evidence of learning is very interesting. I think this could work very well for some subjects and not for others. Recording learning and discover would be a very handy tool in science classes, where it would easy to record the students doing the project and getting the "ah ha!" look on their face, and then having them explain what just happened. In classes, like English, where there are a lot of presentations, whether this be a book report or reading a writing entry, there "performances" could be recorded so that parents could see them during conferences, but also to help the students work on things like pronunciation or looking up at the audience. By allowing them to see themselves, they will be able to correct certain habits they might have when they speak in front of people. I disagree with getting rid of grades, mostly because I do not think it is possible. Even if you could get primary schools to get rid of grading, what are students supposed to send to colleges who rely on having students with high gpa's, not just an asb speech or a good math proof on video. The flip video could be added to already existing school system, but I don't think it could ever fully replace the way things are done now.
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Reflection #6
Recently for one of my ESL classes I had to do a curriculum review. It is very common for ESL curriculum to include an audio recording with the content so that while students are reading the dialogue in their book, they are also hearing it between two native English speakers. This helps their listening skills as well as their comprehension skills. I think this is one way to diversify the curriculum because usually teachers would just have students themselves read the dialogue. But in having someone else read it and they can listen to it, not only does it take some of the pressure off of them as language learners they are also able to hear correct pronunciation. I would definitely use this in my classroom. A fun variation would be to make my own records possibly with their other teachers so they could hear people they recognized.
Reflection #5
Last semester in my speech class we had to give a presentation with a visual aid, which for most people ended up being a powerpoint slideshow. It really irks me that teachers just give us an assignment with powerpoint as a visual aid because I think most people are not taught how to do them correctly. In high school and middle school no one ever corrected students and said these are to enhance your presentation, not have every single thing you are going to say on them. I think there might be a place for powerpoint in the classroom, but only minimally. For an ESL class this could be helpful for taking notes because teachers tend to talk a lot faster then they can understand, especially when they first start learning English. Visual representations of the language form could also be provided for added clarity.
Monday, March 12, 2012
Reflection #4
My history teacher Panapto's (records) our class everyday so that one of our student's can take the class from home because of difficult situations. This also allows students who miss class to make up the class and notes that they missed. Panapto is a great way for students to go back and review the lessons as well as check their notes and take extra notes. As a teacher I think Panapto definitely has a positive and a negative, it helps students who need to go back when taking notes, or in difficult situations, but allows them to skip class. As a teacher, Panapto would be great if I had to miss class or wanted to record material for students to work on listening skills or pronunciation, so they had a good example of what a native English speaker would sound like.
Reflection 3
One of my teachers used you tubes to demonstrate the various levels of els speakers. This was very helpful because we were able to listen to their speech and then take a guess at the level of speaker they are. As a student of learning how to teach this was very helpful experience. For students, you tubes could be assigned to the students so they could hear proper pronunciation of words by native english speakers, as well as they could hear different accents of native English speakers, such as speakers from the south.
Reflection #2
My ESL teacher uses the smart board all the time in our class. She uses it for taking notes, as well as demonstrating key activities with vocabulary and pronunciation. This is a great way to show how words break apart in syllables and also show where the stress is in the word. If I have this technology in my classroom it would be a good way to incorporate the students into the learning, by having the words pre-written on the word and having the students break it into syllables and then mark where the stress is instead of just having the students sit and answer hey can actually be involved in the board work.
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