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Even though some of my students may not have regular access to a computer at home, they can access Google Docs from anywhere, including their phones.

students also know I will look at the “Editing History” to hold them each accountable.

With Google Docs, they can quickly find the right word for their writing with Google Translate.

Michael Gorman, former president of the American Library Association, decries the movement towards a user-controlled Internet as “a world in which everyone is an expert in a world devoid of expertise”

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In addition to taking classes, she supplements her education by using Learning Upgrade, a smartphone app with English and math lessons for adults.

Along with our face-to-face instruction and tutoring, we offer an additional resource to our adult students: educational software via mobile technology.

This access to educational software allows those with limited scheduled availability, or those who do not yet have an assigned tutor, to learn at their own pace and on their own time.

It’s important to note that this process is different from, for example, simply giving students a video of grammar rules to watch at home, then going over the concepts from that video in class.

Zoom performs incredibly well in low bandwidth environments.

A great selection of annotation tools, so you can share your screen, and then write and draw on the screen like a real whiteboard.

Easy process to record classes.

f we make activities genuine, our students will be much more inclined to participate, acquiring new knowledge in the process.

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.

And one of the best ways to access them is with an innovative tool called FluentU.

social media can also be used to enhance teaching and learning and it includes varied online technology tools that allow people to communicate easily via the internet to share information and resources.

demonstrations focused on contrasting cases help students achieve expert-like differentiation

Start small. Find one movie, song, or news source and incorporate it into your class. Expand once you are comfortable. Provide a clear link between what you want your students to learn and the media. Care must be taken provide the proper learning context. It takes time to integrate media effectively into a course. This is not edutainment, it is the conscious use of media to enable students to learn more. Use the subtitles feature for visual media. This is especially useful in focusing student attention on the words being said. Be prepared. Technology does not work 100% of the time so have a back up plan. If the media equipment does not work, go to plan B and continue on with your class without missing a beat. Evaluate student understanding. Students respond to incentives. If you require them to write a reaction paper, take a quiz, or place questions on your exams that relate to the media content they will pay more attention and learn more in the process. Stay legal. View the copyright information on the cautions page.

The true strength of this application was the bi-directional learning that happened from student to student.