The Best Teaching Aid Is a Piece of Chalk." Discuss This Point of View with Reference to the Alternatives.

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Section B 3."The best teaching aid is a piece of chalk." Discuss this point of view with reference to the alternatives. OUTLINE: Introduction. Chalk: traditional and teacher-cantered, formal. It has its uses, BUT: There are other aids, both low-tech and high-tech, that create active learning. I. LOW TECH Flash cards, word cards (high tech ways too) Realia Pictures and charts: Magazines, wall charts, songs and rhymes, games and puzzles (adverb game, Kim's game, Word Bingo, Icebreaker, Scrabble), Role play (alibi), Crosswords, steps II. HIGH TECH ("ELECTRIC AND ELECTRONIC AIDS," p. 29) audial: tape recorder, radio, cd player, mp3, mp4, iPod, voice recorders visual: slide projector, over-head projector, LCD projector Audio-Visual: TV, VCR, DVD, laptop, video camera Interactive audial: Language lab Interactive visual: Computer, cd rom, internet 21st Century/Web 2.0: podcasts, forums, YouTube, Facebook, Social networking, Twitter, Skype, Nate, blogs, wikis, digital storytelling, iPod: Larry Ferlazzo's ESL blog has a million ideas and tools for teaching all the skills: http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/ I. AIDS FOR READING: LOW-TECH AND HIGH-TECH A. LOW TECH: 1. Vocabulary: flash cards, word cards. Convenient because inexpensive and easy to carry around, but limited. 2. Grammar: worksheets, charts, games: good for in class and for homework, but limited 3. Reading: graded readers, picture books B. HIGH TECH: 1. Online flash cards like quizlet.com: keep score, improvement log, timed, game-like, social (groups can add words to a set that they all can use) 2. Grammar: · again, quizlet.com grammar flashcards and games · YouTube: students can film grammar lessons they make themselves -- this makes them both learners and teachers, and is active and fun. Examples:
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