INTEGRATING TECHNOLOGY IN TEACHING WRITING: ADVANTAGES

     

         Teachers nowadays need to integrate the use of technology in their teaching. This is because students need to gain the skills that they will need to be marketable in the future workplace and to operate in a high-tech world. Technology can be defined as the application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes. In my opinion, there are several advantages of integrating technology in teaching writing.

       

       Firstly, in my opinion technology improves the quality of students work as the students take control of the rate of their learning. Students can learn anywhere and how they wanted it to be. This will give them ample time to improve themselves. Furthermore, there are some peoples who cannot doing very well in public but when they are on their own they will be more creative.

       Secondly, technology also can improve students’ attitudes towards learning. Using technology as a tool makes the classroom more interesting and motivating. Teachers can catch students’ interest and attention by using different kind of texts, graphics, videos and pictures.

     

       Thirdly, in my opinion, technology promotes individualized and independent learning as students are able to look up for information anytime they want. Students can also build their self confidence and avoid major embarrassment. Students are afraid to speak up their ideas in class as they afraid to in public.

      To conclude, integrating technology in teaching writing has many advantages. Teachers should improve themselves in using technology to teach students for preparing them to the high-tech world.

HOTS

Students are required to examine the picture. Based on the picture shown, write an essay not more than 200 words. Your essay could be on effect of pollution, types of pollution and other topic that are related to theme: Environment.

Assessing students’ essay

Example of Student's Essay

The overall story was good. He/she got her own ideas. The organisation of ideas was good. The student also know how to expand his/her story but if the student used the WH-questions, he/she might expand his/her writing better. The student also got some problem with spelling. He/She also does the ' direct translation from the mother-language' thing. For the overall essay, I would give him/her 11/20.

Responding to Students’ Writing

Time to give some responds!! To be honest, at first it was so hard to give respond to their work but this is something that I'm gonna do in the future.

SOME OF THE CORRECTION

A Scary Experience.

     Last week, my friends Chase and Selina with me together go ( went to) shopping. There was a terrible thing.

     Last week Tuesday afternoon, we are buying clothes when an earthquake. Selina suddenly fainted, lying on the groud ( ground),Chase immediately ran to open place. I was trying on clothes was pressure in the wall below (hanging sentence). The confusion, Chase immediately found the rescue workers told me and Selina location, rescue workers soon found me and Selina. Chase saw me and Selina is still alive, very happy, to help the ambulance crew carried to the ambulance. We went to the hospital, a lot of people to see a doctor in the hospital.

     Chase tell (tells) Selina and me, when the time of the earthquake, do not panic, and quickly ran to the open. Selina and me learned from Chase where earthquake how to do. I think the earthquake is a very terrible thing.

also we need to create our symbol for each correction.

mine:

sp : spelling

sva : subject verb agreement

p.t : past tense

f.t : future tense

pr.t : present tense

The overall story are good. I understand what he/she are trying to say. The student got his own story-line. The organisation also good. However, he/she needs to work on how to expand and evaluate their ideas/points and stop doing the 'direct translation from the mother language' thing. Teaching them the WH-questions might help them.

Inside the Haiti Earthquake

You can choose your own role.

It took me 2 weeks to finish this game. My internet connection was so slow and with all the loading and buffering, I nearly gave up on playing this game. I even went to a cybercafé located at 1Borneo in order to finish this game. Stress level up. LOL.

My Reflection:

On Tuesday 12 January 2010, an earthquake with the magnitude of 7.0 Mw shakes the ground of Haiti. Many people were killed. Through this disaster, an application titled “Inside Haiti Earthquake” was created to give peoples chance to experience the disaster. There were 3 roles provided in this game which are the Survivor, the Aid-worker and the Journalist. I chose to take the role as a Survivor to learn how I would feel when the disaster happens to me. The videos, pictures and dialogues provided were from the real situations. Some videos and pictures may not suitable for the underage. This game teaches me to appreciate my life, my family and everything I have now.

Teaching using the Inside Haiti Earthquake game:

To teach using this game, we have to let the students experience the game first. Divide the class in to 3 groups. Each group take one role: the Survivor, the Aid-worker or the Journalist. This may take a long time depend on the internet connection. Teacher may ask the students to play the game before the class.

After finish playing the game, each group were required to create an essay describing what happen based on the role they have chosen. Pictures, videos and dialogues from the game could help them in creating the essay. This game also can help students in strengthen their vocabulary and grammar because of the word used in the game.

mini test 2

You are teaching the theme “environment” to a form three class with intermediate level of proficiency. Describe on activity on how to integrate the following thinking skills into your lesson

• Analysis- show students several pictures on types of pollution and ask them to examine the picture. Next, students are required to point out what they have seen.
• Application – Ask the student to describe and evaluate the point they choose. Students may also include moral value on their essay.

Show me the way!!

Instruction:

1.

Your friend from China is going to attend a conference located at Sabah Tourism Promotion Corporation. He stayed at Kinabalu Daya Hotel for the time being. He sends a text to you to ask the direction of the Sabah Tourism Promotion Corporation. Based on the map given, construct several sentences of explanation on how to reach there. After that, use the sentences made before to write a dialogue of you and him.

2.

You are Anita. You work as a shopkeeper at one of the shop located at Wisma Merdeka. Anna, a tourist from Canada comes to see you to ask for the direction to the police station as she loses her wallet. As a local people, explain to her the fastest way to get to the police station based on the map given. Your essay must be at least 150 words.