One and How

In my college Education Technology class, we read an article titled

How Technology Enriched Your Students' Learning.  

Within this article are responses from teachers all across the country on their use of technology in their classroom.  

One application of technology from this article that I am particularly interested in using in my future classroom full of ESL students is found underneath the title "Flipping My Teaching."

This type of teaching allows the students to take charge of their learning experience.  Within your school, the curriculum provides necessary information and facts about subjects, but when the teacher "flips their teaching" with the use of technology, the students are then able to access their iPads, videos, and "Google forms" to discover and to create.  

In the classroom, I can teach to them what the curriculum and the books require, but then I can hand it over to them:

• The students can come to class the next day prepared with a certain number of interesting facts about the subject matter being learned.

• The students can come to class prepared with various ways of creating something out of one thing being learned. 

This type of learning makes a subject matter come to life for the student and lends to them the opportunity to learn many different things about what is being taught, rather than only the facts the curriculum feels is important.  It also allows the student to discover various ways of approaching their technology and shows them the relationship between technology and the classroom.