EDLA615- Langauge Arts and Technology

Wow!! I really enjoyed looking through this site, it was so much fun! It is a great website that allows for interactive learning and creating presentations.   Students can create different posters which can include videos, images, text and audio. Students can be motivated and engaged in the learning, and the site is also very safe. Glogster also facilitates collaborations and is extremely user-friendly site. Students can share ideas, agree or disagree, and provide feedback. I would like to implement this tool and use it with my students in the future, where students can use to create and present a project!

  It was extremely interesting to read this article and voice thread is a great tool to be used in the classroom. Teachers try to engage, motivate and differentiate instruction to help students succeed in school. There are so many technological tools, programs, software that can be used to promote student engagement and enhance the learning experience for all students. Many of these tools allow students to collaborate, communicate, and create content. Voice thread is one of these educational technological tool, it is an interactive slideshow which allows students to participate in conversations involving images, videos, and documents. A feature that I really like from voice thread, is that students can add to the thread, it can enhance literacy skills. It can be used for any grade level, any group setting, small and large groups, and all types of students, including at risk, special needs, and gifted. It can also be used across all subject areas and any type of class, general ed,...

Candidate’s Name: Sora Ilowitz Grade Level: 2 Title of the lesson: sequencing Length of the lesson: 2 lessons of 45 minutes Central focus  of the lesson (The central focus should align with the CCSS/content standards and support students to develop an essential literacy strategy and requisite skills for comprehending or composing texts in meaningful contexts) Key questions: ●       what do you want your students to learn? ●       what are the important understandings and core concepts you want students to develop within the learning segment? I want my students to gain understanding of sequencing events, how to comprehend a story and to use UDL book builder.   Knowledge of students to inform teaching (prior knowledge/prerequisite skills and personal/cultural/community assets) Key questions: ●       What do students know, what can they do, what a...

3 2 1 Creativity Book was extremely creative to read and understand. Book was somewhat creative. Book was not creative and didn’t even have pictures. Sequence of Events Has complete comprehension of the sequence of events in the story. Has good comprehension of the sequence of events in the story. Has some comprehension of the sequence of events in the story, with some mistakes. Cooperation Worked cooperatively with group, helped come up with ideas, listened to their partners. Worked cooperatively with group most of time but had a few problems .shared some ideas Did not work together with the group. Use of Time Used time well during each class period. Used time well during most class periods Did not use time in class to work. Grammar and spelling There was no spelling or...

1.     Outcomes of the implementation: student learning outcomes and technical procedure outcomes The students were able to understand the lesson of sequencing of events. They also learned how to create a book using the UDL book builder site. Each student worked very nicely together with their group. At first, I had to show and guide the students what is expected of them, and then they got the hang of it. 2.     Adjustments you had made to accommodate students with special needs There weren’t any special needs students in the class. The weaker students were paired with a stronger student. The teacher assistant helped out the struggling students to create their book. 3.     Adjustments you had made for the effectiveness of classroom management I had to switch around some groups because they were distracting other students, and some groups were not working out. 4.     Questions asked by the students The questions ...

Sora Ilowitz Dr. Hsu Reflection on new literacies Educators in the 21 st century need to utilize technology in their classroom, since children today are born as digital natives. Teachers should use technology to aid student cognitive learning and apply it for collaboration and exchange of ideas. It is essential that we give our students the necessary foundational skills for the future. When planning a lesson, a teacher has to make sure to include technology. There are endless amount of opportunities and ways that teachers can incorporate technology in their lessons, it keeps the student engaged, motivated, and makes the lesson relevant to them. For example, students can use google earth, google maps when they are learning geography or Social Studies. Students can create a PowerPoint to present to the class, about a subject they have been learning. With the abundances of new literacies, teachers can reach out to students with Google docs, blog, Edmodo, etc. These technologi...