Integrating Technology and English Language Acquisition Colleagues,
I would like to call your attention to a recent COABE webinar entitled "Digital Literacy for Citizenship and Integration: Digital Literacy Resources for Adult ESL Learners," archived on YouTube, and with slides available on the COABE website .
Presenter Shawn Chakrabarti, an Education Program Specialist from the USCIS office of Citizenship, who is also an ESL/ESOL teacher, makes a compelling case for integrating technology in ESOL/ESL teaching, especially for strategies like the Substitution, Augmentation, Modification, and Redefinition (SAMR) model that help teachers to deepen uses of technology, including those that provide unique advantages to teachers and learners. With a teacher-friendly approach, he gives examples of using the SAMR model from citizenship classes he has taught, in which he has used Google Documents (Google Docs.) He ends by offering other good online resources and asking teacher participants in the webinar to suggest other good online tools for teachers, which they do in abundance.
If you look at the webinar, let us know what you think. Was it useful to you and, if so or not, why?
David J. Rosen, Moderator
LINCS CoP Integrating Technology group
Comments
I found the webinar useful, especially the segment on tools that he and others are using inside/outside class. I jotted down a few he mentioned and plan to explore them further: ReadTheory (ad free reading passages and quizzes), Readworks (leveled reading), LearnZillion (open lesson plans for math, reading, etc.), and the Remind app (method of communication to encourage retention).