Students in the Digital Age, M3U1A1

Hello.

My name is Sasha Derby and I'll be giving

a short presentation about students in the digital age.

I gave five students in pre K. A questionnaire.

I interviewed some teachers and I had a discussion with my cohorts that all led

me to some interesting findings that I plan to use to improve my teaching.

Let's get to know the hummingbirds.

I asked them six questions about these topics.

Let's talk about

their responses

introducing the hummingbirds.

Most of the students prefer jim or ballet over any other class.

Most of the students can read letter B,

one student can read all the letters we've covered so far this year

three students have older siblings and only two are only Children.

The Children like to play outside, visit a new place or play with their toys

and only one student likes to be in front of a screen at home.

All students have a television at home,

but all students have at least one other screen in their home as well.

These are some ways that I can make the students happy when they're feeling sad,

frustrated or irritated.

I learned that one of my students actually really enjoys numbers.

I'll try to incorporate numbers more for him and try to grow that interest in him.

The majority of the class prefers being in different places and being

outside of the classroom and playing with toys over watching videos.

Every student is put in front of a screen other

than television from time to time when they're at home

and the last question gave some valuable insight

into how each child likes to be loved,

soothed or made to feel safe.

Now I'll talk about my interviews with the teachers,

the general gist of the questions

ah we're how do you feel about technology in the classroom and at home

and is it a helpful tool for teaching

english language learners and neuron diverse students.

Here's what they said.

Most teachers are given a desktop or a laptop and some are given other

technology resources as well.

The majority of them think that more technology resources should

be made available with only a couple of people disagreeing.

Everyone thinks that technology is at least somewhat helpful in the classroom.

It seems to increase

almost all of these

areas in a very positive way.

Most teachers use technology for instruction and for entertainment with only

a few teachers using it solely for teaching and learning.

All of the teachers use this

use technology in order to support language acquisition

and many of them use lesson plan,

use technology for lesson planning finding online resources etcetera.

There were also a few teachers who use

technology for their students with special needs and

for a home connection to communicate with the

parents or to assign and evaluate homework.

These are some different resources

that teachers have integrated into their lessons that they find helpful,

Not a single teacher doesn't use technology at all.

Overall

teachers think that technology should be made more available for use,

it helps most with learning retention and is extremely

helpful with teaching english as a second language.

Next, I'll talk about

the discussion that I had with my cohort,

we were talking about how to integrate technology for different grades

for young learners,

these are some resources that

were helpful

for them.

Third to fifth grade, we use power point games,

leveled reading and classroom management tools,

sixth through eighth grade um they're starting to uh

use this,

use technology for resources and again for leveled

reading about the world around them and audiobooks

and for older learners, it seems like we see a shift more with students producing um

using technology to produce their

their own information versus absorbing information

specifically for english language learners.

News. Ella

is seen to be helpful because it has content with five different

levels of reading and it's specifically

designed for english language acquisition instruction.

Other tools to use for english language learners are online translators,

visual aids and close captions

for neuro diverse students. Speechify

was seen to be helpful.

Um it's a text to speech device that helps

with students who have reading disabilities or visual impairments.

We could also use text to speech for those with writing impairments or we could

allow the students to type if they have poor handwriting or a writing impairment.

And finally,

here's how I will use this information to inform my teaching.

I'll use my students input

to take note of what they learned from

what they enjoy about gym and ballet and try

to incorporate similar activities into my lessons with numbers,

letters and colors.

I'll try to incorporate the outdoors and using different settings and reality

like toys into my lessons

and I'll remember what the students have said to create

a happy and fun learning environment for all of them.

I also plan to incorporate a bit more technology.

Um they have access to technology,

we have the computer in the classroom and also tablets,

phones and our laptops at home

and because they don't have a huge interest in videos,

um I could make more use of that time in the classroom uh to

review things that we've learned and I could also teach through educational games.

I hope to eventually graduate to at home learning with technology,

The whole class will play interactive games together and then hopefully

at home they'll be able to have individual growth and practice.

These are two resources that I'll use going forward.

Ah seesaw is a resource that I can search for creative

ideas and other online resources to keep my lessons fun and engaging

and we can do activities together as a class

and teach your monster is a fun game I think that the kids will enjoy.

Um because the visuals are very engaging and eventually they'll be able to move into

doing this by themselves in small groups and at home before the year is out.

Thanks for listening

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