For young people without a personal connection to an immigration story, these websites, games, multimedia news pieces, and more, can help put a human face on an abstract debate.
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3 Digital Tools for Helping Students Gain Perspective on Immigration | MindShift | KQED... - 5 views
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For students with first-hand knowledge of the immigrant experience, they can find validation of their stories and/or those of their friends and family.
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This unique interactive resource can be a valuable supplement to a lesson or unit about U.S. immigration.
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Teachers can use Borderland for whole-class discussion and exploration, or give students time to experience these powerful stories on their own.
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Players approve or deny someone entry to a fictional country, basing their decisions on an ever-increasing number of virtual documents they must read and analyze.
Digital Play: Computer Games And Language Aims Delta Teacher Development: Amazon.co.uk:... - 0 views
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6 Media Tools for Powerful Language Teaching | General Educator Blog - 11 views
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65 percent of your students are visual learners, according to research
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If you’re using new technology, give it a trial run. It’s hard to imagine anything less engaging for students than sitting around waiting while you try to load that video over a poor internet connection or figure out all the glitches with that awesome online game.Do your trial and error ahead of time, before you’re demonstrating media to the class.
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While I agree with this, at some point you need a test group. I always try things out first with a section that I know can take a couple of glitches in stride.
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I wish we had enough time to trial everything in advance! Plus, the issue is something might work when you trial it but not at the right time...
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And one of the best ways to access them is with an innovative tool called FluentU.
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they’ll get in-context definitions, visual learning aids and pronunciations for any word
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need images, graphs, videos and charts to learn
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using handheld “clickers.”
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Mini Whiteboards:
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Media makes content more visual.
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good old whiteboards!
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Miro: the Visual Collaboration Platform You Need In Your Online Classroom - The FLTMAG - 2 views
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I would recommend that you sign up with your institutional email to further be able to apply for a free Education Plan (which includes up to 100 users). Students can apply for the Education Plan as well, which allows them to collaborate with up to 10 users for 2 years.
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Frame. It helps you organize your workspace into sections and allows you to save all the frames as a part of a pdf document.
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Comments and Cards (which are basically advanced comments allowing you to add tags, assign people, set deadlines and insert links inside the field of the card) might be essential to communicate feedback and arrange student interaction in an asynchronous mode of work.
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Virtual dice will help you make the board game experience as close to the physical classroom as possible.
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Miro is a great interactive platform which not only makes digital collaboration easy but also provides a number of instruments for individual creative work.
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At Dwight School, Virtual Learning and the Rock - NYTimes.com - 3 views
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At 8 p.m
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No traditional teacher, he was kind of a cross between air traffic controller and computer dork.
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Now students start in sixth grade with a digital citizenship and ethics unit — dangers of cyberbullying included — followed by an introduction to blogging, which requires them to “blog regularly as a means of self-assessment and reflection,
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Upper West Side of Manhattan
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NFLC Virtual Summit (2020): Practical Ways to Simplify, Systematize Flipped Teaching - ... - 1 views
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There are a number of National Foreign Language Center videos on YouTube. The NFLC videos (most are closed captions) are helpful for any language teachers. It offers different activities and ideas to get the students involved online/hybrid etc.
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I have been loving the NFLC videos this week! So many incredible sessions! They will be available on YouTube until August 31!
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Thanks for sharing! I love her comment "The digital native is a myth." This is exactly what my colleagues and I have been noticing as our school went 1:1. Students understand how to use tech for social media and gaming but not as a tool for school.
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Looks like the perfect video to watch as a prelude to doing the hard work of shifting a course to online format. The essential reminder for me: "Pick a few tools and use them over and over again." Better for students, better for us....