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TEACHING RESOURCES - Coggle Diagram

- - - - (or web-log) = a kind of diary; didactic blogs are gratifying for learners as they can publish their own articles, stories in groups or individually
        
        motivating and interesting for learners
        
        develops curiosity, creativity, organizational skills
        
        helps develop problem-posing and problem-solving skills, as well as notes-taking skills
        
        easy to use and no particular technical skills needed
    - - = rapid, quick
        
        possibility to create a sharing kind of software
        
        each user can add contents to it, like in a forum
        
        more than a forum because each user can also modify already-existing contents
        
        an example WIKIPEDIA
        
        function is to share knowledge as well as the exchanging or storing of information and contents
        
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    - - create a VIRTUAL CLASSROOM, a place:
        
        to communicate in an alternative way with the teacher and the classmates
        
        exchange material and ideas
        
        teacher prepares the lesson and then students can integrate it or carry out the activities foreseen
        
        teachers / learners plan projects
        
        teacher and learners have the possibility to create knowledge in a collaborative way searching for the information online, free of copyright, and create new material via all the tools that Web 2.0 makes available
    - - = a service usable on the Web that makes it possible to:
        
        create a profile that becomes public
        
        Create your own list of contacts
        
        be able to visualize the list of "friends and contacts
        
        They are constantly evolving, changing layout, new functions, sharing and interaction:
        
        Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, Linkedin
        
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  - - - interactive
        
        simple and intuitive
        
        Internet always available
        
        accomodates various learning styles (visual /auditory / cinetic)
        
        multisensorial (involves more than 1 sense, emotionally involving)
        
        multimedial (activates various media), so more communication
        
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    - - high cost of purchase and maintenance
        
        few digital accessories, long and time-consuming to create
        
        new tools and teachers are disoriented
        
        risk of making the lesson into a show
        
        risk of passive listening / viewing
        
        risk of over-simplification of contents
        
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    - - 1- centered on the teacher
        
        teacher has control of activities, students intervene and participate by asking questions, carrying out activities,responding to questions
      - 2- centered on the learners
        
        learners present activities they have created in groups or individually. Teacher is coordinator, helper, evaluator
      - in any case you should proceed gradually in making use of the IWB
        
        1) use it as a substitute of the traditional blackboard, but more useful as you can save, what you write on it
        
        2) use it as a kind of projector for material created with software, that collected online, CD-ROM, movies
        
        3) use it as an interactive peripherical device (online/ offline resources, applications)
        
        4) use it to create your own lessons via authoring software for the IWB
- - - - enhanced by adding «mind maps» to synthesize and simplify before reading
  - - - Help learner eliminate distracting «noise»
        
        Help him/her focus their attention on the more complex cognitive tasks at hand
        
        These tools do not change/modify the content, just make it easier to decipher
  - - - enhanced by adding «spelling corrector»
        
        enhanced also by the «voice synthesizer»
        
        helps self-revision and self-correction
  - - - Visual learning; helps all learners in comprehension and retention, organization of learning and thoughts
        
        better if they are color-coded, made with various forms/shapes, concisely written (note-style)
        
        helpful for those with learning disabilities
        
        useful for all students, helps with the scholastic integration of those with learning disabilities because they don’t feel «different»!
  - - - So learners with dyscalculia to concentrate on solving the problem instead of «wasting» their time
- - - - make videos in groups, plan digital presentations, even not physically present
      - 3) Watching and listening
        
        video channels like YouTube or audio channels, no limit to what can be seen and/or heard
        
        4) Practicing things
        
        digital alternatives to notebooks and workbooks for practice, read, take tests
        
        5) Authoring things
        
        write collaborative stories using pictures found on the web, put them together and make a presentation to the class; software programs to get SS to tell stories; write and respond to each other’s blogs
        
        6) Researching things
        
        information, news, facts, dictionaries, use «corpora» to see how language works; use concordance software to find KWIC (key word in context) and come up with sentences where that word is used to see what comes before it and what comes after it (collocations)