How can digital tools support learning outcomes?
Digital tools can provide excellent support to students when they need to:
- Organize thoughts, web resources, or files
- Share their work, news, or stories with others
- Collaborate on projects or share mutual experiences
- Create content for business, school, or personal use
- Communicate visually or verbally
- Belong to a larger community
- Assess their own learning/ feedback
- Participate in local government and media
- Connect to their children's media-rich culture
- Understand concepts in visual, auditory, spatial, or kinesthetic ways
- Rehearse real-life scenarios multiple times
Student Scenarios
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Tayo is currently working on expressing likes and dislikes and is comfortable using social media. You ask her to create some boards in Pinterest of likes/dislikes and to share them with you. The boards she creates then become material for future writing and speaking activities. Tayo uses an online translator to generate new vocabulary from her pinboards, which she draws from to write captions in English. You record her sentences using the voice recorder on Tayo's phone or by downloading Audacity to your laptop and sharing your audio files with her through soundcloud.com or Google Drive.
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Amal is in the process of researching about organizations where he might like to work in the future. He has come across many websites ranging from job hunting tips to corporate websites, but he's having a hard time keeping track of everything. You suggest he use a social bookmarking tool to keep tabs on his research and to make sense of what he's found. Amal uses the tagging feature in future lessons to read, discuss, and write about the various aspects of his job hunting process, one category at a time. By creating your own account in delicious.com, you can watch Amal's research progress as he adds and tags sites to his list.
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Terrance is up for a promotion at the commercial kitchen where he works. He is worried, however, that his writing skills may hold him back from getting a supervisory position. You suggest he video his work to illustrate his capabilities as a manager and upload a brief segment to Youtube. Terrance shows the video from his smartphone during his performance review and reads the list he wrote during his last tutoring session to highlight what he believes his video demonstrates about his skills and leadership qualities.
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Milena is distracted in today's lesson due to the trash collection problem in her neighborhood. You ask Milena to log into her gmail account and show her how to create a new Google map. She drops placemarkers at all the locations where the trash has not been collected and writes brief descriptions for each point. She shares a link to the map she creates with her city council members. In your next lesson together, she tweets her first message on Twitter #trashproblem and mentions her city council members' names to make sure they take notice of the problem.
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