The purpose of this paper is to assess the technology readiness of the primary school teachers in Gaziantep, Turkey. Also, the demographics of the teachers were examined to determine the effect of demographics on the technology readiness level. The Technology Readiness Index developed by Parasuraman was adopted to measure technology readiness of the teachers.
The purpose of this paper is to assess the technology readiness of the primary school teachers in Gaziantep, Turkey. Also, the demographics of the teachers were examined to determine the effect of demographics on the technology readiness level. The Technology Readiness Index developed by Parasuraman was adopted to measure technology readiness of the teachers.
Plickers is an app whereby just the teacher needs an iPad. It is great tool for teachers who are not so confident using ICT devices to become familiar and confident to use them with the children in their class. It is also a great tool for pre/post assessment.
Plickers is a powerfully simple tool that lets teachers collect real-time formative assessment data without the need for student devices. I have already use it :) with it you can guide a great learning sessions for children and evaluate their learning also. :) Use it!!!
Socrative lets teachers engage and assess their students with educational activities on tablets, laptops and smartphones. Through the use of real time questioning, instant result aggregation and visualization, teachers can gauge the whole class' current level of understanding. Socrative saves teachers time so the class can further collaborate, discuss, extend and grow as a community of learners.
Socrative is a fun way to engage students with either polls or quizzes. I use it for vocabulary instruction primarily but if they have a device it makes it easier for them to all participate.
OpenEd makes it easy to differentiate instruction. It also fills in the gaps where the district may not be able to afford resources. I can easily search for all the tools I need to meet the Common Core Standards, and my students are engaged in learning this way.
Case study on the use of the game Lure of the Labyrinth with students in primary school. Provides assessment data and discusses the challenges and successes of this Department of Education Trial.
My maths is a great resource to teach numeracy for the kids. It is a subscription website for schools, and it has lessons, worksheets, games, homework. Everything you need to teach Numeracy using an ICT tool.
mymaths is an excellent site... I used it for 6 years in my previous schools and it was used from Y1 to Y13 it is amazing for lessons but especially for homework and each cohort was followed through Primary and Secondary - great assessment tool too.
UDL Guidelines - Version 2.0: Examples and Resources. UDL provides a blueprint for creating instructional goals, methods, materials, and assessments that work for everyone--not a single, one-size-fits-all solution but rather flexible approaches that can be customized and adjusted for individual needs.
Create interactive slides (Google or Microsoft), self-paced/Instructor-live sessions in class; you can assess students' progress with the takeaways or allow them to interact with dynamic activities. Great tool, created by teachers for students and teachers.
Like it, easy for children to create their own, as you suggest, book cover. Technology in kids hands should evoke creativity and not only be a means of media consumption.
We can practice adjectives, nouns , verbs, adverbs. We can make them to create Noun Cloud. :) That would be awesome. It motivates children to create some very personalize. They would chose the shapes for their group of nouns, adjectives, adverbs, articles, etc.
Which is a good software to help students (4-5 yrs) prepare a simple slideshow or arrange pictures in a logical sequence (eg. transformation of a butterfly from egg to adult)?
There are a lot of different ways of using word clouds as far as EFL is concerned. You name it:
1) predict the content of a text e.g. topics, style, purpose, etc.
2) writing or speaking prompts
3) reading comprehension questions just, then comparing answers after reading the actual text
4) summarise a presentation
5) identify or create the key words to a text
6) expanding vocabulary (definitions, synonyms, antonyms, or brainstorm words associated with a new one, match parts of collocations)
7) explore a topic (students add own ideas to a question stimulus & build a cloud)
8) student ice-breaker
9) highlight examples of misspelled or overused words in student writing by inputting their own work
10) 'grammar game' e.g. students classify words from a cloud into different parts of speech or different tenses
11) 'sentence structure' game e.g. input a complex sentence or short series of sentences into a word cloud, and have students reconstruct them in the correct word order
12) 'memory game' e.g. show a word cloud, take it off the screen, students write as many words as they can recall
13) identify parts of speech (students highlight or underline in different colours)
14) Students pre-assessing their own knowledge and understanding - "What does something mean to me?" as in a KWL chart
It is the first time I see this app and I love it!
I think it would look great on a cover and it could work really good for engaging students with a kind of crosswords´ activity.
I went through the site and it looks like an amazing site to add to my tool/resource list. I can use it as a mindmap for children in the class and collate their ideas. Thank you for sharing.
Edmodo is an easy way to get your students connected so they can safely collaborate, get and stay organized, and access assignments, grades, and school messages.
I use Edmodo in my school too and it is a great tool to communicate with students and parents, share resources with other teachers, assess, provide feedback... There are many things to do there!
Edmodo was used in my previous school, it's like a learning-based version of facebook. Teachers can post links and videos for students to do their study at home, and it's easy for teachers to check on each student's progress and response rate.
Awesome tool, will need whole school approach though which may be difficult for government schools and or third world countries where these platforms or use of technology is only made available at privileged school and rarely at home.
awesome too. Our school is using a different app but I would like to try this especially for my own school to see how it works with my teachers and students.
I love it! I think it's a way of making parents close to what happen at class, as well as an amusing way of creating a relation with the students, it's not the conventional and serious way to which I am used to. I'll use it for sure.
I have used Edmodo and it is a very good application to share content with the students, you can share websites links interesting for them. Besides, students can share too.
A great and safe tool to use with students, in my case due to the Quarantine situation, we had to move on to E-learning so quick with 7 - 8 years old students, the platform is ideally for older students but Edmodo helped a lot to keep a direct communication with students/parents in a safe online environment.
It is a great tool to bring the learner, teacher and parent all three community and make the learning happen in a wholesome way. Learners being able to work on feedforwards from the teachers and peer feedback can be implied here.