For the learning experience that integrates technology, I decided to focus on the tech tool of blogs. For the assignment, students will be using a blog to communicate with a student from a hispanic country such as Costa Rica and/or Brazil. The whole purpose of this communication with other peers in another country is to identify any issues in Education that are occurring in countries outside of the United States and find speak to their pen pals about possible solutions that can help those students in which they are becoming acquainted with. This will also be their way to keep in contact with each other, informing one another about what is going on in their lives. Under the technology standards, this assignment would fall under the standard 8.1, strand C: Communication and Collaboration. The grade level would be 12 and the CPI number is 8.1.12.C.1.
For this assignment, students should be able to create and use a blog. They will learn in class how to make one and their options of sites that they can choose that is easier for them to manage. They will also need to know how to go about and search within the blogs to find their student pen pals blog and comment on their posts. Besides having to know how to use the blog, students should be able to conduct research on the Internet about their pen pal's country to find current events as well as they possible solutions to the issues that they become aware of.
In my content area, students should be able to write their posts in Spanish in order to be able to communicate accurately with their student pen pals. They should be able to use the correct grammar and vocabulary that they are learning on a daily basis to write their posts in a way in which students in other countries will be able to understand them.
This blog would be a great way for students to get a perspective of how students in other countries live and the issues that they will face on a daily basis. It's also a great way to practice their Spanish and it gives them a context as to why its important to learn the language.
Using a blog to allow students to connect with other students of different cultures is an amazing idea! It would be a new way for young students to have pen pals. It would be in a language that they would all understand (technology), and it would allow them to visually understand the similarities and differences between them.
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