As I continue to use the iPod touch in my classroom I have found it to be quite useful during reading. One of the students that I work with is a girl who is not a very confident reader. She loves to read but she is slow.... When I asked her why she reads so slow she commented that it was because she wanted to make sure she didn't get anything wrong when she had her Dibbles testing. So, as we read one day, I pulled out the Touch and recorded her voice. After she finished I had her listen to her voice and follow along as she heard it. When finished, I asked her what she thought and she responded that she reads kinda slow. Yes, I said so lets work on picking up the pace and not worry about whether you are making mistakes or not.
I haven't met with her since that first day, but I am eager to see her again to see if anything has changed. It just goes to show that being able to hear your own voice, can make a big difference from someone just telling you what you are doing wrong.
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Monday, February 7, 2011
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
itouch touching a classroom
Having the iTouch in a 4th grade classroom has been a very fun experience. This is mostly because most of these students live in a lower economic area and have only heard about the technology and never experienced it themselves. So to see their excitement was a fun thing to see.
The first student I had use the Touch was a girl who is still unable to tell time on an analog clock. So I had her use the Telling Time app. She was so engrossed with the "game" that she never realized she was learning. This was proven to me after recess when I asked her what time it was. She looked at the clock, hesitated briefly and answered. I gave her a smile and told her she can now tell time! She was excited!
The next child is ELL. She struggles with her math. So I had her use Sum Stacker with the Spanish words. But as she worked on the Spanish I wrote the words in English to show her what it looks like. It was slow going but she eventually caught on. I am not sure this was necessarily a great thing to do with an ELL, but I think she felt included in the math lesson that day so to me it was successful.
The last student I used Pearl Diver. This student had difficulty understanding a number line. With Pearl Diver the student was able to figure out the sum and then place it on the line. The benefit of this was that it was again a "game" that the student thought they were playing, not a math assignment.
Overall,if students think they are playing a game I let them think that then later tied it into learning and helped them to make that connection. It was great!
The first student I had use the Touch was a girl who is still unable to tell time on an analog clock. So I had her use the Telling Time app. She was so engrossed with the "game" that she never realized she was learning. This was proven to me after recess when I asked her what time it was. She looked at the clock, hesitated briefly and answered. I gave her a smile and told her she can now tell time! She was excited!
The next child is ELL. She struggles with her math. So I had her use Sum Stacker with the Spanish words. But as she worked on the Spanish I wrote the words in English to show her what it looks like. It was slow going but she eventually caught on. I am not sure this was necessarily a great thing to do with an ELL, but I think she felt included in the math lesson that day so to me it was successful.
The last student I used Pearl Diver. This student had difficulty understanding a number line. With Pearl Diver the student was able to figure out the sum and then place it on the line. The benefit of this was that it was again a "game" that the student thought they were playing, not a math assignment.
Overall,if students think they are playing a game I let them think that then later tied it into learning and helped them to make that connection. It was great!
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