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ELA Technology Tools
The new Common Core Standards will require students to reading, write, speak, and listen, for conceptual clarity. This performance of conceptual clarity is defined as a processes of communicating knowledge that is connected in a reflective means. This type of reflective learning fits best in authentic learning task that require different skills sets. Students will not only have to read an article or passage but be able to understand the text complexity as well as use reflective thoughts when writing about what they have read. To enable students to have a better grasp at succeeding in their education students will need to have various technical skills to support their learning.
As reported from the Common Core Website, research and media skills are blended into the Standards as a whole. The website clearly articulates the purpose behind these Standards as, "To be ready for college, workforce training, and life in a technological society, students need the ability to gather, comprehend, evaluate, synthesize, and report on information and ideas, to conduct original research in order to answer questions or solve problems, and to analyze and create a high volume and extensive range of print and nonprint texts in media forms old and new. The need to conduct research and to produce and consume media is embedded into every aspect of today’s curriculum."
From these statements it is easy to gather that students will need to be able to conduct research, solve problems, create and analyze an extensive range of media forms. Due to these future skill sets this Website has established two subset under the domain of Literacy Language tools. These two subsets include, writing and presentation tools. The Literacy Language domain itself will include technology tools to support, student research and vocabulary development. Please note that this site is still under development as addtional web 2.0 resources will be added frequently.
As reported from the Common Core Website, research and media skills are blended into the Standards as a whole. The website clearly articulates the purpose behind these Standards as, "To be ready for college, workforce training, and life in a technological society, students need the ability to gather, comprehend, evaluate, synthesize, and report on information and ideas, to conduct original research in order to answer questions or solve problems, and to analyze and create a high volume and extensive range of print and nonprint texts in media forms old and new. The need to conduct research and to produce and consume media is embedded into every aspect of today’s curriculum."
From these statements it is easy to gather that students will need to be able to conduct research, solve problems, create and analyze an extensive range of media forms. Due to these future skill sets this Website has established two subset under the domain of Literacy Language tools. These two subsets include, writing and presentation tools. The Literacy Language domain itself will include technology tools to support, student research and vocabulary development. Please note that this site is still under development as addtional web 2.0 resources will be added frequently.
Wolffram AlphaWolffram Alpha is a new solution finder service for most of the questions in your mind. If you have any doubts about anything, just key in the proper search terms into this engine and it will fetch out all the answers for you. It is a Computational Search Engine as the developers say. The goal of this engine is to make the expert level knowledge accessible to anyone, anywhere and at anytime. This works on the basis that it computes the results and provides the direct answer, but not that it will fetch a huge database of search index and give us list of web results where we can find related information. The working of this is carried by searching into licensed or public databases and live feeds which will help it to digg out the live and latest information for few real time examples like stock details etc. Here is a video demo of the tool.
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Wolfram Alfa – Try entering a math problem and see what happens; see examples page
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Wiki Summarizer
Research can be a tedious task especially when assigned to web searches and meeting deadlines. Summarizing articles or preparing a review of multiple articles is one way to compile relevant information for reporting, especially when having to articulate a précis or synaptic point of view. Just recently a new site has been compose to allow researchers the ability to summarize articles in Wikipedea call Wiki Summarizer. The Wiki Summarizer provides a service that allows for key points in an article to be revealed during searches. The search engine is very easy to use and you can get a list of linked search terms correlated with related articles through Wiki Summarizer.
Word Ahead
WordAhead is a vocabulary development tool that demonstrates a selected word through a short animated film which expands upon the words definition. The website provides not only the definition of the word, but your students can see a video illustration and hear how the word is used in different sentences.
The beta testing website has a very complete vocabulary development section of 600 words with words added daily. You can use this site by not only uploading selected word videos but also allows for a vocabulary widget to be posted on your own website. The vocabulary development videos, flash cards and dictionary become beneficial when helping students develop their vocabulary or when a lesson developer needs visual and auditory support for ELL Language Learners.
Teacher's or student's can also create & manage their own word lists in the Study Room by selecting words from the website. Teachers can incorporate multiple list fortheir classroom and create study groups. Vocabulary list can be modified by adding or deleting words that students have learned. This website has a collection of short, simple and fun multimedia clips and an audio narration to correctly pronounce, define, and provide examples of difficult English words. The videos are entirely appropriate for middle and high school students. Teacher's can subscribe to receive a Word of the Day video from WordAhead. A WordAhead widget is also available on the website.
The beta testing website has a very complete vocabulary development section of 600 words with words added daily. You can use this site by not only uploading selected word videos but also allows for a vocabulary widget to be posted on your own website. The vocabulary development videos, flash cards and dictionary become beneficial when helping students develop their vocabulary or when a lesson developer needs visual and auditory support for ELL Language Learners.
Teacher's or student's can also create & manage their own word lists in the Study Room by selecting words from the website. Teachers can incorporate multiple list fortheir classroom and create study groups. Vocabulary list can be modified by adding or deleting words that students have learned. This website has a collection of short, simple and fun multimedia clips and an audio narration to correctly pronounce, define, and provide examples of difficult English words. The videos are entirely appropriate for middle and high school students. Teacher's can subscribe to receive a Word of the Day video from WordAhead. A WordAhead widget is also available on the website.
