The Growing Teacher

Sometimes, it can feel daunting to try include technology in your lessons, to enhance the learning experience for your learners. Have you felt this way?

Group discussion and participation.

Recently, I tried to include my learners into the lesson by letting them add their thoughts and opinions to my class presentation.

My class watched a video and had to take down notes. After the video they had to sharing their thoughts, ideas and opinions on the topic with their group member. Each group was given a question and a slide that they had to add their group discussion notes in my presentation. This was live and active, which meant that I could walk around the class, with my handheld device, and question their throughs. This meant that they could share their understanding with me and I could ask questions which helped them to build further understanding.

Once they were finished, a member from each group had to share their thoughts, ideas and opinion with the class. At that moment, students could either ask further questions to the groups or add additional notes to their work in their books in a different colour, to show they have edited their work. Later, I could check their work and read their notes.

It was a great lesson and my learners had fun participating in it.

A helpful hint: Learning from this experience, next time I would create a separate presentation and link it into my presentation. This way, learners can edit their slides without effecting my original presentation and changing other things. You can link presentations and slides, that way you can update/refresh them and the information will pull the data from one to the other with only changing the slides that you have linked.