Technologies to Support Learning Preferences
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What is Exactly Google Drive?
Google Drive is a free cloud-based storage service that enable users from to store and access files online. The service syncs store documents, photos and more across all of the user's devices, including mobile devices, tablets and PCs. So for example, you can upload a file into Google Drive from your home computer, then open your Drive at work computer and get into the same file. It's accessible from wherever you have access to internet. Plus Google Drive is not just a place to store things; it's also a place to make things. Meaning you and your students can use these tools to do any kind of writing assignments, take test and quizzes, study flashcards, and create slideshow presentations all inside the same platform.
My mission today is to show you how Drive's awesomeness, and to convince you that you need to be using Google Drive but not just for you, but with your students as well. I'm going to embrace 3 amazing applications; Google Jamboard, Google Drawings, and Google Slides which they support and engage diverse learners
1.) Google Jamboard is one smart display. Quickly pull out image from Google search, save work to the cloud automatically, use the easy-to-read handwriting and shape recognition tool, and draw with a stylus but erase with your finger, just like a whiteboard. A whole-class discussion can encourage students to learn from one another and to articulate course content in their own words. While generally not conducive to covering large amounts of content, the interactive dynamic of discussion can help students learn and motivate them to complete homework plus to prepare for class. As well said, teachers can engage with students by giving an activity on a pros/cons discussion with a Jamboard template using a tablet, as seen below a good example. They can do this on their own individual frames in a jam or all together on one big frame in Jamboard. This overall lesson will fit on the Bloom Taxonomy level as Evaluate since students are learning how to justify a stand and decision.
2.) Google Drawings is a virtual board that allows you users to create content by drawing, pasting images, linking videos and websites, and inserting text, shapes, tables and other content onto a page in Google Drive. Teachers can create a magnetic poetry interactive template with Google Drawings that you and your students can use to get creative. Since when students read poetry, it improves sentence formation, syntax, fluency and more creative skills. One timeless purpose of poetry in the classroom is to teach vocabulary words. The repertoire of vocabulary words in a poem provides students with first-gasp of new words, their definitions, and pronunciations. By using Google Drawings and making a magnetic poetry as seen below you can use this as an independent activity, or take it a step further and make it a collaborative activity and see how the poetry evolves. This exercise in general meet on Blooms Taxonomy as Analyzing since students are learning to draw connections among ideas.
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3.) Google Slides is an online presentation app that lets you create and format presentations and work with other people at the same time. Video recordings has a huge advantage over reading texts, writing activities and listening exercise in that it's instantly engaging. Young students even old are attracted to video recordings and many even see them as a treat when used in class. Plus, the use of videos stimulates the cognitive processes of thinking, reasoning, problem-solving, decision-making, and creating. As we know, now a hit in social media is TikTok where kids and adults are excitedly showing, uploading and sharing videos. With Google Slides we can use this excitement in the classroom, by creating a TikTok-style experience, as seen below by recording themselves reading a book. This cool assignment is suitable on Blooms Taxonomy as Creating since students are learning to produce original work by making their own video.
Work Cited
Hamilton, B. (2018). Integrating Technology in the classroom: Tools to meet the needs of every student. International Society for Technology in Education.
Miller, Mat. Ditch That Textbook, 17 May 2022, https://ditchthattextbook.com/
The Bebspectacled Librarian, director. Google Drawing Basics . YouTube, YouTube, 6 Dec. 2020, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSU0JbxWpoc. Accessed 3 Nov. 2022.
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