Transcript PowerPoint Presentation - Technology in the ESL Classroom

Technology
Ramonita Rodriguez
EDU 183
Technology in the ESL Classroom
June 11, 2005
What is technology?
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Useful tool for the classroom teacher
Tool to support
Enhance learning experience
Can facilitate second language
instruction
Provides students interactive learning
experiences
Ways to make life easier
How we can use
technology?
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Interactive smart board
Cassette with headphone
Computers / Laptop
Audio tapes and videotapes
Language labs
Leap pad
Overhead
Digital camera
Why technology is
beneficial?
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Motivate to learn
More efficient
Share information up-date
Cover topics in more detail
Engages interactive learning
Allows for self-correction
Communication (learning with others)
Lesson Plan
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Subject – Science
Topic – Seeds and Plants
Grade – First Grade
Objectives: Students will understand
how the seed starts a new plant,
stages, parts of the plant and their
jobs, kinds of plants, and what we can
eat.
Teaching the lesson
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Teach new vocabulary using words and
pictures’ flash cards
Ask students what they know about the
seeds and plants
Incorporate technology: PowerPoint,
Digital camera, Digital images from
Internet and Google images
PowerPoint
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Plant stages
Plant parts
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Roots, stems, leaves, and flower
Kinds of Plants
Trees
Flowers
Bushes
Plant parts that we eat
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Visual activity
Assist with comprehension
Click to see
“Seeds and Plants” presentation
Digital Camera
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Take pictures of the students planting the
seed and each stage
Review what students have already learned
Create a class book about planting a seed
using the pictures and students’ sentences
Help ESL student to communicate
Sequence the pictures for the book
Take turns taking the class book home to
read with their families (practice reading)
Digital images
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Practice parts of the plant
http://www.hhmi.org/coolscience/vegquiz/plantparts.
html
Google Images
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Find pictures of children’s feet and hands to make a tree
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Hands for the branches
Feet for the roots
Human Tree
Project Grading Rubric
Prepare 4-in-a-Row with pictures from Google Images
4-in-a-Row
Conclusion
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Technology must be used only when it
enhances the language learning
experience.
Can be truly be useful tool for a
classroom teacher.
It is a bit scary
Make life easier
It is exciting
It is a challenge
Bibliography
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Jo Ellen Moore, “Plants”
 http://www.evan-moor.com
Plants
www.edhelper.com/plants.htm
http://www.hhmi.org/coolscience/vegquiz/plantparts.html
http://www.pfizer.co.uk/images/ty3_kids_hands.jpg
http://www.artzphoto.com/images/Children/Clhoe_feet_Sepia_72s
.jpg