Week 5 Assignments
Assignment 1: Dropbox article
For this assignment we were asked to find an article dealing with adolescents using technology in the classroom to enhance their ELA skills and overall technology and educational abilities. The article i choose is titled, "Does collaboration occur when children are learning with the support of a wiki," and was written by Yasemin Allsop who is the ICT coordinator at Wilbury Primary School. The article goes into detail to talk about how wikis were used int he classroom to perform ELA assignments using collaborative groups. The basis of the article is to establish a connection between collaboration through technology, and learning and using wikis to do this. The author gives great examples and shows how wikis are beneficial. The reason why i chose this specific article was because i have very little experience in using wikis and i thought it would be interesting to take a look at how other teachers are using wikis to help students with their English and technology skills. I would definitely recommend this article to anyone who is interested in learning about wikis, or anyone who is skeptical of the benefits of using wikis. Check out the link below!
Assignment 2: Edmodo account
I was able to create a teacher and student account using Edmodo and it seems like a great tool to use for ELA implementation amongst other things. In my current job i will not be able to use this toll unfortunately due to Internet restrictions and correctional restrictions as well. It comes with the territory when looking at teaching in an incarcerated setting however i still would like to develop an Edmodo account for use in the future. In using Edmodo i can see many different interesting and engaging facets that would definitely interest students. The overall layout being like Facebook makes it very user friendly and accessible to our student body. Some of the tools i am most interested in looking at are the polling function, the quizzing function, and the assignment function. I would love to set up writing reponse assignments and i think the online format makes it easier and more practical for students to use for doing homework assignments.
Excellent choice. I enjoyed reading it.
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