Teaching with Digital Technology
Preschool Learning
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- Category: Mobile Learning
- Last Updated on 15. Dec 2013
- Published on 14. May 2013
- Written by Anabel Nowak
Tiptoy is an interactive, audio and learning game series made by Ravensburger in Germany. It consists of games, for all ages, 3-D Puzzles and books for children from three up to ten. Different topics and school subjects can be chosen, for example: Farm, music, numbers or geography and a digital pen with sound. The pen recognizes pictures and produces their respective sound, when you hold the pen on the picture of a river; you can hear the sound of water. The pen also recognizes various symbols at the bottom of the page, each symbol has a different function, e.g. by tipping the ear symbol a voice starts explaining what a river is. Tiptoy is ideal for teaching English as a foreign language as well because it helps develop listening skills at a young age. (read also Interactive Dictionary)
Interactive Material in Classrooms
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- Category: Mobile Learning
- Last Updated on 13. Oct 2013
- Published on 28. Apr 2013
- Written by Anabel Nowak
Interactive material in classrooms, like educational games, is always interesting for students. There are sites offering many tools and games ready to use in class. That is not new. But have you ever thought of using the games with adults? Educational games for schools offer games to perfect spelling, learn vocabulary and test language understanding. There is a wide range of educational games in different subjects that you can also take advantage of to teach English.
SMS Mobile Language
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- Category: Mobile Learning
- Last Updated on 23. Oct 2013
- Published on 05. Apr 2013
- Written by Anabel Nowak
Mobile devices have brought a new way of communicating, they have partly changed the way we speak and write. Now we need short words. New generations and new jobs use mobile devices, they have their own language or jargon; Text messaging has expanded. It is an advantage for teachers to understand mobile language, although it is even better to teach it at school. In non- English speaking countries for instance, Business English or English for the job would be the right subject to teach mobile language / sms language.
Heterogeneous Classes
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- Category: Mobile Learning
- Last Updated on 29. Aug 2013
- Published on 29. Mar 2013
- Written by Anabel Nowak
One of the problems we seem to encounter these days is having large multi-level classes as a standard; suddenly there are many pupils or students of different ages, coming from different schools, or repeating the year. Even those pupils who for different reasons almost never attended your subject in former schools are there making integration in the class even more difficult.
Virtual Reality and teaching
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- Category: Mobile Learning
- Last Updated on 16. Mar 2013
- Published on 16. Mar 2013
- Written by Anabel Nowak
Virtual reality is also called Augmented Reality and can be experienced as a 3D computer simulation or a hologram and sometimes even as a holodeck (a room full of holograms) just like in the famous science fiction series Star Treek and Deep Space Nine.
iTunesU in School
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- Category: Mobile Learning
- Last Updated on 15. Dec 2013
- Published on 04. Mar 2013
- Written by Anabel Nowak
iTunesU More than music.
You might know iTunes in connection with iPods and they might belong to the forbidden gadgets in the school you work for. iTunesU is a way to share lectures and more and it is free. You can use it with kids, or university students. With ipads, or computers.
