I just finished presenting to all the teachers the technology tools that we will be focusing for the upcoming school year. There were mixed reactions but I reiterated that this is the way education is moving forward. Our principal states that by withholding these tools to the students in the classrooms that we are actually not doing our part in preparing our students for the technological advancements in any field.
I am so glad that “reading” was one of the topics of the discussion and I could already see myself having a Wordle workshops for the teachers. I may not even have to conduct workshops for Wordle. Some may just start signing-up for it and start using it for their poetry, vocabulary words (not just in language arts but in Science, Math, Social Studies, Spanish etc). Reading is truly essential in any subjects and in all the different facets of life.
Here’s a SlideRocket presentation that I showed at the meeting. I hope you would find this useful too.
