Implementation Of Technology Lesson

Janet Leishman

Teaching Environment

This is the second grade classroom that I have been teaching in for the last few days. In this classroom there are 22 students. In this room there is plenty of room to move around to help the students. In the classroom there is also plenty of visuals for the students to use as resources while doing their work.

Teaching Environment

The technology available in this classroom is limited. The classroom is located in the older part of the school so not only does the internet not always work but the only pieces of technology available for the teacher’s disposal is a T.V. with a DVD player, an overhead and sometimes even a projector. With this lesson I brought in my own laptop to use.

Implemented Lesson

With this lesson I was teaching my guided reading group. In this lesson my objective was to teach my students how to read with correct expression and punctuation cues. I did this by allowing students to record themselves reading a sentence on VoiceThread. They then listened to the play back. The students would then decide whether or not they read their sentence with lots of expression and read it using correct punctuation cues.

Implemented Lesson

Opening page of VoiceThread.

Implemented Lesson

Second page of VoiceThread. This was the book the students were reading from.

Implemented Lesson

Here are some pictures that the students drew about the book. They put the sentences they were going to read with the picture on a large poster. This was so they could easily read it while recording their sentence as their picture showed up on voice thread.

Implemented Lesson

Implemented Lesson

Implemented Lesson

I chose to use VoiceThread because most of the students in my guided reading group are oral learners. I decided to do something where they could hear how they sounded when they read. This helped to show them that sometimes they forgot to read with expression.

Lesson Reflection

In my lesson I showed the students these two pictures to remind students what the exclamation and question marks look like. I modeled for them how they should read a sentence if an exclamation point was at the end or a question mark. They noticed that there was a difference in my expression with the two different marks.

Lesson Reflection

Since these students have not interacted much with technology, I felt that I used an appropriate amount of technology. If I would have used anymore the students would have become overwhelmed with all the different types of technology. I felt like this lesson really helped the students to see how using expression while reading is so necessary. They heard that it sounded so much better when expression was used while reading their sentences. However, I felt with this lesson that I could have done more modeling for the students. I only read two sentences showing the students how to read with expression but I should have done more to help those students who were struggling with it. I would have also done this lesson with a smaller group. 6 students was far too many to try and do but 4-5 students would have been just right.

Used this clip art to show quotation marks.

Lesson ReflectionIf I had would have had more time. I would have allowed my students to make up their very own VoiceThreads. So the students would have recorded their own story based on ‘Aunt Eater Loves a Mystery’. This would have allowed the students more time listening and fixing their reading skills of reading with expression.

Technology Integration with Young Children

Students using a smart board to learn.

Students using a projector to learn.

Technology Integration with Young Children

From this article I learned a variety of benefits of using technology. Technology can increase a students vocabulary and conversation skills through the use of photography. Technology can support the development of the English language for ESL students because they can visually see what is being taught. Technology allows students to respond to things in their own individual way. By organizing information from technology students can learn to ask questions and research them using technological resources. It helps to engage a students curiosity. Provides students with hands-on learning. These are a few of the benefits that I learned from the article about the use of technology in lessons and in the classroom. This article taught me that technology is worth using in the classroom because of all the benefits that come from using it.

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