1. Reflection on your understanding of ELA instruction.
Building knowledge through content-rich nonfiction and informational texts
Incorporating informational text in the curriculum in the early years of school has the potential to increase student motivation, build important comprehension skills, and lay the groundwork for students to grow into confident, purposeful readers. Students need a broad and rich knowledge base to recognize and understand the meaning of words and ideas they read throughout their years in school and beyond.
Reading and writing grounded in evidence from text
A significant percentage of tasks and questions are text dependent. Standards strongly focus on students gathering evidence, knowledge, and insight from what they read and therefore require that a majority of the questions and tasks that students ask and respond to be based on the text under consideration. Text dependent questions require students to demonstrate that they not only can follow the details of what is stated but also are able to make valid claims about text.
Practice with complex text and its vocabulary
Vocabulary is critically important to readers who use the words they speak and hear to make sense of the words they see in print. Decoding without understanding what words mean is not reading meaningfully. Vocabulary is critical to reading comprehension throughout the grades. A reader cannot comprehend what is read if he or she doesn’t know the meanings of most of the words. As children advance in reading, they encounter words that are not part of their oral vocabularies, which they need to learn in order to understand what they are reading.
2. Research one technology tool that can best assist in each of the FIVE components mentioned in Learning Task#1.
Bubbl.us is a web 2.0 tool that will enable users to create mind mapping and brainstorming diagrams online. Bubbl.us can aid any student in organizing and generating ideas. The tool incorporates multiple intelligences. Students can use the tool to present ideas for research. In addition, students could organize sources or notes for a paper or research article, in order to aid in the writing process and narrow the focus of selected topics.
Bubbl.us is a tool I think could definitely aid any student in the area of ELA instruction. The great thing about a mind-map is that it shows you the relationships between separate entities in your thought process clearly. It is in a form which you can review and comprehend easily, even if you're looking at someone else's map. This tool could be a powerful alternative for conveying complex information.
3. Interview an ELA teacher to learn his/her challenge(s) in integrating technology in the teaching of ELA/Literacy
Interview with ELA teacher (6th-grade):
ELA teacher stated without adequate hardware, software, and internet access, it is difficult to truly integrate technology into her ELA classroom. Another complaint from teacher was the school does not have appropriate amounts and suitable types of technology in locations where teachers and students can use them. For example, even though the school has a computer lab, teachers do not have easy access to them if they needed to use them. Teachers have to compete with other teachers for computer lab time.
The challenges u mentioned are very helpful.
ReplyDeleteBecoming a purposeful reader is very important. Everything you mentioned makes complete sense and helps me understand why all the little steps are important into molding students into complete learners.
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing this great tool! In this class, we will explore free technological tools that are easily accesible and can be accompanied by the pedagogical strategies to minimize the issue of not having enough resource in schools. But meanwhile, we also want to advocate our school administrator to support technology integration in the classrooms.:D
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