Children are in contact with many technological
devices nowadays; their parents’ mobile phone or their own (depending on the
age), tablets, computers, laptops... Schools’ contexts are not different and
our students are in contact as well with all these devices but also with something
quite different which are Interactive whiteboards.
In my opinion they are very interesting and
dynamic resources to take advantage of. They allow us to use a large amount of
tools, programmes and resources or even create ours, which depending on the
case might be more meaningful and adapted to our students. They are also
attractive due to the fact that students can actively participate and interact
when doing activities in the class with these devices. By contrast, digital
whiteboards only allow teachers to project different materials but this is not
as much motivating as having the chance to “play” with the interactive ones.
My experience with Interactive Whiteboards is
quite limited. I’ve used them in different occasions but nobody has properly
taught me how to make the most of them; therefore the use I could have done was
not appropriate by a long shot.
Our last session helped me to learn more about
Interactive Whiteboards as well as learn about Notebook and how to use it to
design a varied sort of activities to develop English (or other content) in our
class. I’ve created two activities in which we can develop both LOTS and HOTS
of Bloom’s Taxonomy, specifically, understanding in the first one and creating
in the second one.
The first activity consists of finding the
hidden word. The students will need to choose a letter, click on it and see if
the hidden word contains the letter they have chosen. They will be able as well
to check the clue which will give them a description of the hidden word. This kind
of game can be adapted to any topic we decide to work on; I focused it on
describing adjectives and personal features including the names of all of us;
the idea is to do it with the names of our students so that it becomes
something interesting for them and customized.
The
second activity allows us to work on creativity as well as on personal features
and parts of the face. The students will create a new classmate by making a
compilation using different parts of their faces. They can create different
classmates so that everybody can participate using a part of his/her face:
eyes, nose, mouth, hair.... Once they will have created the new classmate they
will record themselves introducing this new character. It is important to
mention here, that this activity can be adapted according to any topic, for instance
animals. Another possible option is to create a new character/pet using
different objects: food, toys, etc.
Hope you find them interesting!
Cheers
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