FETC January 25, 2008

Digital Media for Bilingual/ELL Students

   

Big Ideas:

1. Technology can enhance learning for Bilingual/ELL students if ...

• it develops deep UNDERSTANDING of concepts, ideas learning and tasks through CONTEXTUALIZATION and linkages to pre-existing knowledge and experiences
• it provides AUTHENTIC, MEANINGFUL  and CHALLENGING opportunities to communicate and solve problems
• it enables students to COLLABORATE with a learning COMMUNITY of peers and educators
• it affirm a positive student IDENTITY through AMPLIFIED  PUBLISHING

2. Bilingual/ELL students should be both digital media consumers and digital media producers.

3. Bilingual/ELL students should publish what they produce, especially using Web 2.0 sites.

4. Most schools already have the technology they need.

 

Presentation:

FETC.pdf

 

Video: Risa de Dios

 

Research:

Literacy, Technology and Diversity - Cummins, Brown and Sayers

CREDE

Finding Flow

How People Learn

Access and Engagement: Program Design and Instructional Approaches for Immigrant Students in Secondary Schools

 

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Video Links

Internet Archive

http://www.archive.org/details/movies

Teacher Tube

http://www.teachertube.com/

United Streaming $

www.unitedstreaming.com

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Image Links

Pics4Learning

http://www.pics4learning.com/

PDPhoto.org

http://pdphoto.org/

Stock Vault

http://www.stockvault.net/

United Streaming $

www.unitedstreaming.com

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Audio Stories/Literature Links

MobiStories

http://www.stillmotionmedia.com/

(click the itunes link to see the videos)

Story Nory

http://storynory.com/

Project Gutenberg

http://www.gutenberg.org

Audio Books for Free

http://www.audiobooksforfree.com

LibriVox

http://librivox.org/

Learn Out Loud

http://kids.learnoutloud.com/Kids-Free-Stuff

Lit2Go

http://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/

Nettrekker

http://nettrekker.com/

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Web 2.0 Tools

Voice Thread

http://voicethread.com/

http://voicethread.com/share/18551/