Monday, June 14, 2010
edutopia Tip #4 Response: Think Globally
I presently teach in a low; socio-economical school, where most if not all of my students have limited or no assess to things world-wide. Teaching reading is very challenging due to their limited background knowledge on most content matter. I've used google earth with my students on several opportunities; earthquake in Haiti. We zoomed to Haiti and saw the devastation caused by the earthquake. we actually saw the fault line and actual people walking around. it was like being there. We (the students and myself) were astounded. Afterwards they had several chances to play around with it and they learned to navigate it without any help from me. Thanks. This was really wonderful, because it brought a part of the world to my kids and took my kids to Haiti to become apart of their experience.
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I think this is awesome. I sure the students learned so much about an area that they would not typically have any interest in and moreover they were able to use an assistive technology to explore a particular current event. Keep those students learning with the available resources!!!
ReplyDeleteI most definitely will. This gives them the opportunity to experience current events first-hand rather than read about them or listen to them.
ReplyDeleteI really liked this (what you and the students did) and I am just like you. The school that I am working at, the students have very limited resources and getting them to go outside of some of the things that they are used to is very interesting. I am going to do this!!!!
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