EDLA615 Language Arts and Technology

·          Which ideas from the video reflect what the ELA teachers you interviewed are currently doing to integrate technology with their literacy instruction? Teachers are using things that the students have access to and use daily and are weaving them into their lessons. This ensures that the students are acquiring technological skills in conjunction with cognitive skills. These can include: social networking, email/texting, blogging and so on. ·          How can you help change their instructional practices to include the use of technology and the Internet in their literacy and content-area curriculum? By encouraging the students to use the Internet to research information about what they are learning, to collaborate and communicate via blogging and networking, teachers can include technology within their teaching curriculum and practices. Students can use the internet for instructional texts. The...

The concept of new literacies is revolutionizing the educational sphere. Many students began school using pen, paper, and books but are now using electronic forms of these. Computers and internet have helped broaden the scope of learning, teach students new skills that they will use in the outside world, and introduce them to more information than was previously possible. Additionally, technology helps students be able to collaborate and interact with each other while learning. Technology is also a vital tool for helping students with disabilities and English Language Learners. It helps simplify lessons as well as make it more interesting. There are many examples of new literacies. With the advent of the internet, teachers can make use of a vast amount of resources for their classroom. They can use chats, email, and various apps and games to make learning fun, rich, and more organized. Using technology helps scaffold material, provide background knowledge, and generally prepare the ...

Interview Q: How do you plan your lessons with the integration of technology? A: I know how important it is to integrate technology in my lessons. It differentiates the lesson and it prepares the students by giving them important skills. The first thing I have to evaluate is the class. I get a feel for their interactive skills, their literacy skills, and how well they work with technology. A technologically adept class will have an easier time using technology independently. I find that ELLs and students from low income families have had less access to updated technology and require more assistance. Once I understand where my class is standing in this respect, I can plan my lessons. I like integrating technology in various forms. We watch clips on the Smartboard and play games on it as a class, too. What I find most challenging, but indeed most rewarding, is watching students collaborate when using technology. I think this is the most vital skill that students will need to know ...

There are various components to teaching and learning language arts. Generally, students ranging from K-5 receive they’re instruction of the language arts from a single teacher. This teacher focuses on reading, writing, speaking, listening, and language. From grades 6-12 language arts is taught by the ELA teacher as well as history, science, and other subjects. This is because the various components of language arts are applicable to all subjects. Such as comprehension, oral presentation and so on. I think it’s so important for language arts to be taught and integrated into all subjects since it teaches students not just the technical aspects a.k.a. actual reading words and writing sentences but how language arts should be integrated such as to write a research paper and prepare a presentation. These skills are vital in all areas and therefor the teachers of other subjects should weave language arts into what they’re teaching. It’s important to know that in reading, which is the f...

Standards have evolved over time. Due to disparities and weaknesses in the system, there have been many reforms in the standards set for core subjects. Since the standards were not good, there were disparities between student achievements as well. Early standards set by states were too broad, it led to an unteachable curriculum. Also, there was the problem of “a mile wide and an inch deep”. Since the states had such different standards, if a child moved from one state to another, he or she found that they were unable to keep up. Thus, it became apparent that there needed to be one set of standards for all states. The new ELA Common Core standards are broken into four categories, reading, writing, speaking & listening, and language. Each of these have anchor standards that specify what the student is learning to prepare them for college and readiness. It gives teachers a goal and something to work to. Then come the content standards which are more specific. In reading, students hav...

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