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.
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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they can help students step back for a big-picture, historical perspective on U.S. immigration
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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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Miro: the Visual Collaboration Platform You Need In Your Online Classroom - The FLTMAG - 2 views
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visual collaboration platform:
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interactive tool
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Miro allows teachers to present material while students can be interactin
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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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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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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....
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