Integrating Technology in ESL Writing
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Tuesday, 11/12/2012
TE10503 Teaching Writing Skills
Write an article on the topic integrating technology in teaching writing. It can be anything related to the slides, own opinion, how you would use it in future.
It might be difficult for teachers to keep up and adapt to the advancements of the technology in the world that we’re living today. In this century, everything around us revolves the usage of technology. It helps in further the information as quick as possible compared to the olden days. The field of education is not excluded. The advancement of technology has brought numerals of improvement in education. The advancements that technology contributed in today’s way of learning has made it become vital to all of us. Technology, in the sense of learning has helped teachers to expand their ability from the linear, text-based learning to various kinds of other ways that helped to engage the students’ interest and understandings. However, there are several of other ways that educators can do in order to implement the usage of technology in their classroom, especially in teaching writing.
One of the advancement that technology offers in teaching is by using the online based word-document such as The Google Docs. Of the many digital tools that many tech-savvy teachers used, Google Docs has been one of the most brilliant invention. The fact that it stores documents on the Web makes it accessible from anywhere. It allows its users to share their work with others, which make writing even more interesting. This brilliant tool has created a space where collaborative works becomes easier and smooth, which also reduced the difficulty to gather everybody all at once. It is time consuming, and sometimes the discussions carried out were not even productive. This enhancement has also contributed in bridging and connecting the students and teacher. For instance, if the student managed to do their homework online, the teacher just has to log in and check their students’ work, as easy and quick as that. The auto-save feature in Google Docs allows the users to save the docs without even clicking the ‘save’ button as many people tend to be in a rush and forgotten to do so.
The usage of interactive whiteboard has also broaden the learning process. It has increasingly replaced the features of a traditional classroom blackboard or ordinary whiteboard to an electronic one. Interactive whiteboards display large visual panels that can be used as a traditional whiteboard, but it expends the ability of a traditional whiteboard by adding the features such as image projector, or interactive computer projector. Interactive whiteboards are designed for classroom use, and apparently it has engaging with the students and the current learning process. This innovative teaching tools allows the teachers to enhance any presentation or lesson by easily integrating video, animation, graphics, text and audio with the spoken presentation. It is believed that students may respond better seeing information presented visually.
As for my opinion, there are a lot more improvement that technology has contributed in learning process. It works both way between the students and teacher, and it allows interaction widely and beyond the traditional ways of how learning process was. These interactions assigned by the recent inventions are usually the real-time response by both of the students and teachers, so the learning process becomes a lot easier and smooth.
TE10503 Teaching Writing Skills
Write an article on the topic integrating technology in teaching writing. It can be anything related to the slides, own opinion, how you would use it in future.
It might be difficult for teachers to keep up and adapt to the advancements of the technology in the world that we’re living today. In this century, everything around us revolves the usage of technology. It helps in further the information as quick as possible compared to the olden days. The field of education is not excluded. The advancement of technology has brought numerals of improvement in education. The advancements that technology contributed in today’s way of learning has made it become vital to all of us. Technology, in the sense of learning has helped teachers to expand their ability from the linear, text-based learning to various kinds of other ways that helped to engage the students’ interest and understandings. However, there are several of other ways that educators can do in order to implement the usage of technology in their classroom, especially in teaching writing.
One of the advancement that technology offers in teaching is by using the online based word-document such as The Google Docs. Of the many digital tools that many tech-savvy teachers used, Google Docs has been one of the most brilliant invention. The fact that it stores documents on the Web makes it accessible from anywhere. It allows its users to share their work with others, which make writing even more interesting. This brilliant tool has created a space where collaborative works becomes easier and smooth, which also reduced the difficulty to gather everybody all at once. It is time consuming, and sometimes the discussions carried out were not even productive. This enhancement has also contributed in bridging and connecting the students and teacher. For instance, if the student managed to do their homework online, the teacher just has to log in and check their students’ work, as easy and quick as that. The auto-save feature in Google Docs allows the users to save the docs without even clicking the ‘save’ button as many people tend to be in a rush and forgotten to do so.
The usage of interactive whiteboard has also broaden the learning process. It has increasingly replaced the features of a traditional classroom blackboard or ordinary whiteboard to an electronic one. Interactive whiteboards display large visual panels that can be used as a traditional whiteboard, but it expends the ability of a traditional whiteboard by adding the features such as image projector, or interactive computer projector. Interactive whiteboards are designed for classroom use, and apparently it has engaging with the students and the current learning process. This innovative teaching tools allows the teachers to enhance any presentation or lesson by easily integrating video, animation, graphics, text and audio with the spoken presentation. It is believed that students may respond better seeing information presented visually.
As for my opinion, there are a lot more improvement that technology has contributed in learning process. It works both way between the students and teacher, and it allows interaction widely and beyond the traditional ways of how learning process was. These interactions assigned by the recent inventions are usually the real-time response by both of the students and teachers, so the learning process becomes a lot easier and smooth.
1 comments:
IWB is useful. I loved to use it to create games. Too bad, we do not have it here.
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