After
viewing the CLEAR website in class on Thursday, I never realized how many great
there really are for students and teachers. I always been a future teacher who
believed that hands on activities is really the best way for students to learn,
but other than doing activities I haven’t really interacted with the technology
options that are out there. The speaker that came to out class really opened up
my eyes to new resources.
This
made me begin to think how I would use some of the activities she informed us
about in my classroom. Currently I am planning a lesson for 6th grade
students at a middle school in Lansing. My lesson uses a jeopardy game to help
enforce the knowledge the students have learned in their history class about
Canada. I never thought that there was an Internet option as an interactive
board instead of making one myself. Not only could I use this to make my Jeopardy
board, but I could also use this as a teaching opportunity for my students to utilize
the site as well, and teach them how to use the site. Using this interactive
board lets students learn new technology and practice their knowledge on the
topic as well.
I then began to think about how I could
use this for my ESL students at the elementary school I am placed it. For many
of my students the proper grammatical terms and structures is something many of
them struggle with. This jeopardy board would be a great interactive and fun
tool for my students to learn new grammar for younger students. For the older
students this tool could be used so they could fix/correct improper English sentences,
or place the proper words for fill in the blank sentences. There are many ways
this site, and especially this program we were shown could be used in my future
classroom and I am very glad this speaker has now made me aware of it.
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