Write
an article on the topic integrating technology in teaching writing. It can be
anything related to the slides, own opinion, how you would use it in future.
Nowadays in 21st
century, the use of technology in every aspect is bringing convenience to human
beings and we are getting use to it as it makes our life easier. The education
system recently encourages our country to apply technology in teaching as well.
There are several reasons that we apply
technologies to teaching writing. First and foremost, it is convenient. The
students nowadays can just type the answers and complete the tasks by typing
words into the computers and they need no to write on papers and submit their
homework to their teachers. This will bring convenience to teachers as well.
The teachers just have to click and check the answers by using the computers.
Besides that, the textbooks and exercise books and practical books as well are
not necessary to be brought to schools.
Using technologies in teaching writing can help
students to practice collaborative writing. The students will be given the
tasks and they can collaborate to complete those tasks by having online
discussions. Then, their work will be submitted to the teachers for marking and
grading through several ways. The ways recommended is posting to Facebook,
twitter, blogpost or even tumblr. The students can receive the comments about
their tasks by teachers through watching the comment boxes. Not to mention that
this is beneficial to those who are shy to give out their opinions during
writing classes.
Apart from that, application of technologies in teaching writing brings benefits for teachers and students because of the ease of storage and revision as well. The students can store their works in their personal computers by saving them inside folders or files. They can refer back for revision and analyze their written performances in anytime. In addition, they can save the slides or notes given by teachers in their computers for revision in anytime or anywhere.
Furthermore, using technology in teaching writing
can boost up students’ creativity. If
technology is integrated into writing classrooms, there will be more visual
aids for the students thus expand their thoughts and creativity. The usage of
videos, songs and movies in learning activities are popular among the students
nowadays as they are the frequent users of technology. Indeed when these visual
elements are integrated in teaching writing classes, the students will be more
interested in learning writing. They can express their ideas and thoughts and
even create their own visual aids for their learning in writing classrooms.
I would like to take this opportunity to recommend
a few online teaching tools that my group members and I have discovered. We
discovered these online teaching tools when we are given the task to do a
presentation with the title ‘online and offline teaching tools’.
First and foremost, the first online teaching tool
that I would like to introduce is PREZI. PREZI is cloud-based presentation software that's changing how people share
ideas. The teachers which are recommended with this tool can use it to do
their presentation slides. PREZI is quite similar with Microsoft Presentation
Slides but compared to this, PREZI is more interesting. If you are interested
in this tool and wish to use it to teach your future students, you can online
and search this website: http://prezi.com/learn/.
Besides that, you can even create and design the PREZI.
Second online teaching tool that I would like to
mention is Read, Write and Think. This online teaching tool can let the
teachers to create their own learning tool and make their learning more
amusing. There are several approaches to create the learning tools for students
in this online teaching tool. For this online teaching tool, you can create
your own comics, poems, advertisements. Then,
teachers can ask their students to create their own learning tools and they can
share their learning tools among themselves.
Thirdly, I would also like to share another online
teaching tool, with the name Glogster. Glogster, short for graphic blog is a
social network that allows network users to create free interactive posters.
The users can post their favorite videos and photos to the poster and they can
develop their creativity to design and decorate their posters. They can share
their latest newsfeed and updates on the posters.
On the other hand, I would like to share to you all
how I am going to teach my students by integrating these online teaching tools
to my writing classrooms. Firstly, I would ask my students to use the Read,
Write and Think to create their learning tools. They can go back home to try
this simple activity by sharing their thoughts and create something new from
this online learning tool. Then, they will be asked to print it out and share
to the whole class. This can implicitly help students to develop their creative
thinking skills. They can think more about writing and start to develop more
ideas when it comes to writing.
Last but not least, I would try to have a video
watching session before the teaching writing class starts. The students will be
asked to pay full attention to the video as the video I showed is regarding the
lesson. For an example, I would show a video regarding committing suicide news
and the students will be given a few questions regarding this topic. They can
discuss the answers among themselves and then share with other fellows when
discussion ends. Then, we will start to develop a few points for the essay with
this particular topic.
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