Linda
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Comics and Cartoons. 50 Fab Apps for Teachers. Less Is More You don’t need a one-to-one classroom (one device for every student) to integrate tablets into instruction. Whether you have one tablet or five, possibilities for teaching with them abound. Single Tablet • Independent reading Load up your tablet with books in a reading app. Allow students to check out the tablet for the day or week for in-class use, just as they would a book from the class library.
Have students sign a contract that they’ll handle the tablet properly. • Accessibility Have a student that might benefit from accessibility apps? Small Set of Tablets • Small-group reading A few tablets are perfect for engaging students during small-group reading instruction. . • Research Portability makes tablets conducive to quickly accessing information for research projects. Education—there’s an app for that. By many accounts, some of the most powerful education apps are used for teaching reading and supporting differentiation for students with disabilities. Language Arts Math. Why teachers should not bother correcting errors in their students’ writing (not the traditional way at least) Metacognitive enhancement and error correction: a discussion of the shortcomings of traditional error treatment and of the potential benefits of learner training in self-monitoring strategies Dr Gianfranco Conti Garden International School (Kuala Lumpur) Dr Yoko Sato Hosei University (Tokyo) Abstract This paper evaluates the merits of the most traditional forms of error treatment, Direct and Indirect Error Correction, as applied to L2-writing, highlighting the epistemological, pedagogical and learner-strategy related issues which undermine their efficacy.
It also discusses why Explicit Strategy Training in self-monitoring strategies may constitute a more promising alternative in the light of Cognitive theories of L2-learning and of the existing empirical evidence. 1.Background these results are somewhat dispiriting given the amount of effort that teachers put into providing feedback to written work the evidence does seem sufficiently strong to question the effort expended. 1. 2. 3. 4. 1. 2. 3. 4. iPad Apps for School | The Best iOS Apps for Students and Teachers.