Tech Forum - Austin, November 2, 2007
Reaching All Students -
Digital Media for Bilingual/ELL Students
Big Ideas:
1. Bilingual/ELL teachers now have access to more technology-based teaching and learning tools than ever before.
2. 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
3. Bilingual/ELL students should be both digital media consumers and digital media producers.
4. Bilingual/ELL students should publish what they produce, especially using Web 2.0 sites.
5. Most schools already have the technology they need.
Research:
Literacy, Technology and Diversity - Cummins, Brown and Sayers
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