Best Teaching Practices with Technology

​Best Practices in Teaching with Technology

​Teaching with technology

Different free educational resources​:

• Quizizz

• Flipgrid

• Peardeck

• Padlet

• Google Classroom

• Adobe Spark

• Kahoot

• Jamboard

Poll

How many of the previous resources have you heard of/ used in your own classroom?

• None!

• 1-2

• 3-4

• More than 5!

Difficulties

Benefits​

Teaching with Technology

• Engaged participation

• Different ways to assess

• Students gain valuable practice with technology

• Wifi/connection

• Time to create/ locate resources

• Student familiarity with technology​

Open Ended

What are some difficulties you have encountered when using technology in the classroom?

​Let's brainstorm how we can use technology in the classroom through looking at some scenarios.

Multiple Choice

During a lesson, the wifi cuts out. What is the best strategy to continue with your lesson:

• End the lesson

• Have resources downloaded for offline use

• Try to hotspot all computers from personal cellphone

• Have students continue lesson on their personal cellphones

Multiple Choice

You assign online homework, but the next day you find out that most of your students did not complete it. What is the most likely cause?

• Most students do not have access to wifi at their house

• Students are lazy

• Students chose to not complete the homework

• Students did not have time to complete the homework

Multiple Choice

If most of your students do not have access to wifi at home, how can you still make use of technology in the classroom?

• Demand that students find access to wifi outside of class.

• Create online lessons that are completed within class hours

• Only assign online homework once and a while

• Never use technology in the classroom

Multiple Choice

Which technology use would BEST focus on students use of practicing communicative English?

• Students read an online text and respond to questions on it

• Students watch a video and respond to questions on it

• Students write a short paragraph on their hobbies

• The teacher records themself asking questions and the students must record their responses to the questions.