Fostering Cultural Change in Schools with ICT
What am I doing to develop my own ICT and pedagogy? I will continue to learn about the various educational Apps and Web Tools and whichever ones I think will benefit my students’ learning, I will introduce it to the class and have students 'play' with it. Such as Wordle and Wordsift, and much more on the following website: http://www.readingrockets.org/article/10-ways-use-technology-build-vocabulary . Wordle is a word cloud generator and Wordsift works in similar ways and both are great for vocabulary development. Wordsift also is good for students that tend to get overwhelmed by the sheer number of words in a text. Wordsift help sifts through a piece of text and identifies important words in the text by making the word bolder, bigger and most prominent. I think these tools would be useful for my English Language Learner (ELL) students, as well as my struggling learners in helping develop vocabulary, foster and encourage reading. I see my students every day so I th...