Hi everyone,
I enjoyed doing assignments of week 4 a lot. the first task i did was i read the articles provided in our class wiki and share my ideas in nice-net. in other words, i posted it in discussion. similarly, i found the real problem of my classroom for which i want to implement the project as my students are using computers just for fun. another interesting task i did was, i prepared technology enhanced lesson plan. it was my amazing experience as i felt very difficult to understand initially but now when the plan is ready, i am happy and satisfied as build up a confidence that i can prepare a technology enhanced lesson plan. the lesson plan i prepared is presented below:
Class (name, type of student): Grade eleven students who have already studied English as a second language for thirteen years, aged 17-18 years.
Topic: The Boarded Window (story) by Ambrose Bierce
Duration: 45 minutes
A computer will be there for the whole class with Wi Fi connection from where students will listen the story retrieved from the following link.
Materials
Technology component downloaded from/accessed in class at: http://www.manythings.org/voa/stories/The_Boarded_Window_-_By_Ambrose_Bierce.html
Other material: Handouts of the story (if technology didn't function), whiteboard, marker and question cards
Introduction
Review of previous lesson: The teacher will ask one of the students to summarize the chapter within ten sentences before s/he starts the lesson
Objectives of this lesson (tell students about them): By the end of the class, students will have been able to;
a) Write the meaning of the difficult words
b) Find out the theme of the story
c) Tell the suitability of the title
Procedure
Presentation (teacher or student), including key vocabulary
At first teacher will provide the audio of the story and divide them in pairs and provide them the activity as solving questions;
i. find out the difficult words from the story and discuss its meaning in your pairs.
ii. Discuss in pairs on the theme of the story and write it down within ten sentences
iii. Discuss in your pairs on the suitability of the title and share your answers with your class.
Activity (student) students will listen the story. After that they will list out the difficult words from the story and discuss the meaning of the words in their pair. They will take help from the teacher if required. After completing the task they will discuss on the second question and after that they will shift to the third question and finally share their answers with their class.
Learning styles addressed: Pre –reading activities (pre- teach vocabulary), while reading activities (discuss the theme of the story) and post- reading activities (share their ideas on suitability of the title with their class)
Technology alternative (in case things don't work as planned): If in case computer didn't work, the teacher will be ready with the handouts of the story so that the lesson would go smoothly without any disturbance.
Review before the end of the class session:
Ask one of the students to share his/her feelings after reading the story.
Homework:
Write the summary of the story 'The Boarded Window' in your own words.
I enjoyed doing assignments of week 4 a lot. the first task i did was i read the articles provided in our class wiki and share my ideas in nice-net. in other words, i posted it in discussion. similarly, i found the real problem of my classroom for which i want to implement the project as my students are using computers just for fun. another interesting task i did was, i prepared technology enhanced lesson plan. it was my amazing experience as i felt very difficult to understand initially but now when the plan is ready, i am happy and satisfied as build up a confidence that i can prepare a technology enhanced lesson plan. the lesson plan i prepared is presented below:
Class (name, type of student): Grade eleven students who have already studied English as a second language for thirteen years, aged 17-18 years.
Topic: The Boarded Window (story) by Ambrose Bierce
Duration: 45 minutes
A computer will be there for the whole class with Wi Fi connection from where students will listen the story retrieved from the following link.
Materials
Technology component downloaded from/accessed in class at: http://www.manythings.org/voa/stories/The_Boarded_Window_-_By_Ambrose_Bierce.html
Other material: Handouts of the story (if technology didn't function), whiteboard, marker and question cards
Introduction
Review of previous lesson: The teacher will ask one of the students to summarize the chapter within ten sentences before s/he starts the lesson
Objectives of this lesson (tell students about them): By the end of the class, students will have been able to;
a) Write the meaning of the difficult words
b) Find out the theme of the story
c) Tell the suitability of the title
Procedure
Presentation (teacher or student), including key vocabulary
At first teacher will provide the audio of the story and divide them in pairs and provide them the activity as solving questions;
i. find out the difficult words from the story and discuss its meaning in your pairs.
ii. Discuss in pairs on the theme of the story and write it down within ten sentences
iii. Discuss in your pairs on the suitability of the title and share your answers with your class.
Activity (student) students will listen the story. After that they will list out the difficult words from the story and discuss the meaning of the words in their pair. They will take help from the teacher if required. After completing the task they will discuss on the second question and after that they will shift to the third question and finally share their answers with their class.
Learning styles addressed: Pre –reading activities (pre- teach vocabulary), while reading activities (discuss the theme of the story) and post- reading activities (share their ideas on suitability of the title with their class)
Technology alternative (in case things don't work as planned): If in case computer didn't work, the teacher will be ready with the handouts of the story so that the lesson would go smoothly without any disturbance.
Review before the end of the class session:
Ask one of the students to share his/her feelings after reading the story.
Homework:
Write the summary of the story 'The Boarded Window' in your own words.
I agree with you: most of our students in Argentina use it for fun, for facebook, for games and twitter etc.
ReplyDeleteMoreover, they are twittering all the time without doing what they have to do. If at school they twitter and do not pay attention to teachers. If at home do no help parents. I think it is society and we have to work hard to use the net from another side. Elena
Hi Elena
ReplyDeleteI agree with you that now we teachers should try to do something t utilize internet from another side.
Mandi
Really a great assembled of everything point wise easy to read, understand and use them.
ReplyDeleteIn Nepal we have internet in cities only and most of the people today here think internet is facebook or hotmail/yahoo. The way you planned to have wifi zone everywhere to educate people is really a fantastic idea.