The Use of Technology in Teaching English

The well-known cliché goes “a picture says a thousand words” and this is an idea that Nick Sousanis explores in his book “Unflattening”. The saying implies that images are able to speak volumes, more than words could ever express. Images convey different messages to people and in doing so evoke thoughts and emotions that words often cannot. Individuals interpret images based on their own ideas and experiences, therefore an image can be seen in many different perspectives creating diverse meanings from one single image. Since there are so many different perspectives it is easy to see how Sousanis images can convey several different concepts.

Furthermore, as a teacher’s role, I would take this opportunity to document the children’s progress on their thoughts and progression of thinking. In the form of making their thoughts visible by taking pictures, video, dialogues and portfolio. By documenting this, children’s learning process will be visually displayed for the children and parents to see on the

Visual Aid: I may use a video on YouTube documenting experts’ knowledge on the subject

With the use of video, the class is able to see and understand about houses throughout history, as the student uses their white boards to record notes, they will then be able to use a graphic organizer to organize those notes and share them with their peers. In this particular video, we see technology in the form of video, internet, and a graphic organizer. The role of the teacher is to promote discussion from the video, and the teacher will also aid the student in note taking. The role of the student is to watch the video, and take notes on key commponents from the video, and record them on video. The student will then organize those notes with the use of the graphic organizer. The student will then engage in discussion with both teacher and peers, and learn together as a class about different types of places people lived. One of the ISTE standards for students is communication. This particular assignment addresses communication in the form of group discussion, and by sharing and verifying information with other students. Communication is key in the learning experience, it brings learning into a deeper

I will need to consider the resources I use to ensure they meet the needs of the learners. It will be important to use a wide variety of resources when I am teaching, the main reasons for this is to accommodate different learning styles but also to help learner stimulation and interaction.

One advantage of the text goes into more details about the feeling of each character. That is an advantage because you can really feel what the characters are feeling and you can relate and connect to what you are reading better. One advantage of the video is that you can see what is happening. This is an advantage because you can actually see what’s happening. One disadvantage of the text is that you can’t see what’s happening, so you would have to visualize what’s happening when what you are visualizing could be different or off of what is really happening.

The demonstrated behavior within the video modeling is always a positive behavior (Prelock & McCauley, 2012). Most children already enjoy watching television and videos. As a result of this interest, videos can increase the motivation to learn, resulting in a successful intervention (Alzyoudi, Sartawi, & Almuhiri, 2014). Video modeling can target multiple reading and communication skills to include the initiation of conversations with peers, verbal comments, intonation, and decoding skills. Video modeling encourages positive change through teaching language use with peers, including both social initiations and appropriate responding. Improvements with initiating conversations were noted after watching a three minute vignette once a day (Maione & Mirenda,

The multimodal text that I have chosen to include for my certification is a video that I made last semester for DTC 354. While this video does not necessarily demonstrate my abilities as a graphic designer, I chose it because I am extremely proud of it. Essentially, I chose the topic “A Semester in Raves” for my video because I found myself with all of this footage from electronic dance music shows that I did not know what to do with. I thought that this video project would

Have the students complete their video questions. Define the blue terms on the website in their note books.

I chose to read and evaluate Melanie Shoffner’s article (2013), “Approaching Technology in English Education from a Different Perspective.” Specifically, this article is an editorial rather than research. Shoffner’s claim here is that teachers should view technology not as a separate component to add to one’s teaching, but that technology should be thought of as something that is integrated into student learning.

Clifford Stoll argues, “If kids watch too much TV, why bring multimedia video systems into schools.” Stoll implies that the schools are allowing students to expect some sort of multimedia in their classes. Showing videos during class may help some of the visual learners, but most students consider this as a free-time and not focus. Furthermore, Stoll states that teachers show videos during class due to their lack of information. In this case, the teachers should prepare beforehand and keep the students interested.

The visuals help solidify that belief of what they are saying and it helps visual learners process the information. When Feinburg was talking about the struggles of creating Wall-E if she didn’t show the progression through slides the audience would have been lost. It builds that link between what is said and what is.

Sixty-two percent of teachers say they use digital media twice a week or more and 24 percent say they use it every day to help them teach. The numbers of teachers using TV and video content in the classroom are even higher. Over 80 percent of teachers say they use TV or video to teach a lesson at least once a month and 76 percent are streaming it from the web” (par. 2).

Multimedia – Pictures about current interest of the students to be used in editing. To make the learners understand more the lessons by using images specially the current trending images nowadays

But Audio-Lingual/(Visual approach did mark start of the technological age in language teaching and it did introduce important new elements Emphasised need for visual presentation and possibility of eliciting language from visual cues. It placed far more weight on use of foreign language in classroom by both teacher and pupil, and the language used was of far greater practicality.