Links: http://gettingsmart.com/2016/10/top-5-ways-teachers-can-incorporate-edtech-into-the-classroom/
http://www.edutopia.org/article/using-emojis-to-teach-critical-reading-skills-marissa-king
Friday, October 14, 2016
Week 8: Articles
For this week, I read two articles from my education blogs. The first one is titled, “ Top Five ways teachers can incorporate Education Technology into the classroom” which appears in Gettingsmart.com, the author suggests practical ways integrate technology into the classroom. Some apps are part of my Web Tool course as Pinterest and Google Drive are mentioned in the article as excellent online tools for collaborating with students for sources for a project. For example, Google Classroom provides students a platform where they can share their documents and to better organize their class work. I am glad to know about these apps from my Web Tools course because they are fantastic for creating a learning community with students. There are apps that I have not use with students such as the Stick Pick or SmartSeat which allows teachers to create an efficient way to call on students to participate in the class or creates quickly seating charts. The article also provides new software to communicate with parents by sending messages through Appletree or Class Dojo. I think that it can be a good alternative if parents prefer messages than checking the class blog. Overall the article is informative and provides the best apps to use in the classroom that is user-friendly for beginners. The next article is titled, “Using Emojis to Teach Critical Reading Skills” which appears in the Edutopia.org, the author, Marissa King, suggest an innovated way for teachers to connect with students by transferring their digital skills to written contexts. The author proves that students’ use of emojis in their social media can be useful when they are learning inferring and context clues strategies in the classroom. The author informs readers how she has been able to use emojis-decoding to teach context clues as a reading strategy with students. It can a different approach yet it proves to be engaging with students because they know that an emoji have multiples meanings.They must figure out the meaning by using the writer's message, photo, and emoji. The author shares with readers class activities and projects for students to do, for example, students, create social media guides on emojis and how emojis can change the context of the meaning. Overall these two articles introduce excellent ideas on how teachers can use technology to connect with students. From apps to emojis, technology is constantly evolving and teachers must find ways to relate to students’ lives through lessons and technology.
Links: http://gettingsmart.com/2016/10/top-5-ways-teachers-can-incorporate-edtech-into-the-classroom/
http://www.edutopia.org/article/using-emojis-to-teach-critical-reading-skills-marissa-king
Links: http://gettingsmart.com/2016/10/top-5-ways-teachers-can-incorporate-edtech-into-the-classroom/
http://www.edutopia.org/article/using-emojis-to-teach-critical-reading-skills-marissa-king
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Jessica,
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing. I really enjoyed reading about the article of using emojis to help students learn inferring and context clues which are vital skills for students to develop their reading comprehension skills. This is a great example of how we can incorporate something students use on a regular basis to help them navigate new skills in their education.
Jessica,
ReplyDeleteThe emoji lesson is so interesting! What a good way for students to be able to decode and develop the skills needed to critically think and problem solve. Just as the author explains, I agree that it is important to continue to creatively use tools such as these that students can relate to and find interesting, for them to learn and grow.
Jessica,
ReplyDeleteThe new forms of communicating with parents has changed so much for the typical notes we used to send home. The Appletree or cCassDojo is a good example of what is out there for us to use. I am currently trying Remind, which is used with the phones of parents and send out a text with my message. It can also send emails. You enter the phone numbers of your parents and you type your message and sends the parents the message. Parents need to accept your request and download the app to their phones. I have used it a couple of times and it works fast. You can also keep track of the conversations you have with parents and you can use this a documentation.
The emoji article sounds really interesting and it is a good tool to use maybe with character emotions/traits in a story or play. Students can relate to the faces and I'm sure they'll have fun using them in their classroom writing.
Hi Jessica,
ReplyDeleteI find your article to be very entertaining. i think that students have to be familiar with many of todays applications for educational technology. I think that it is critical for the teacher to be familiar with the tech as well. This is were the issue is, many teachers do not know how to even use social network applications. Their needs to be more investment in training for teachers.