"You talk as if a god had made the Machine.. Men made it, do not forget that. Great men, but men. The Machine is much, but it is not everything. I see something like you in this plate, but I do not see you. I hear something like you through this telephone, but I do not hear you. That is why I want you to come. Pay me a visit, so that we can meet face to face, and talk about the hopes that are in my mind."The machine stops - 1909 - Forster
Then we created a Wordle using their answers. That was the starting point for further work on vocabulary.
We also recycled common words introducing emoticons.
Students were shown smileys and had to guess the animals they represented.
Some new words were introduced using emoticons.
Here is a link to a site where you can find a lot of them
We thought we could let people comment on our creatures and we made a Voicethread.
Feel free to add comments if you wish.
Steps 6 : Wrapping things up
Teaching aims: making students reflect on the meaning of words such as "diversity", "imagination" and "creativity" Web2 tools used: Animoto
A class discussion was led to fully understand the meaning of creativity and the incredible power of imagination. As a final consideration they came up with these simple words:
You are questioning this as effective integration of technology and I just want to shout a loud, Yes!!!!
Thank you so much for sharing! I really love the examples and the students having fun and being creative with their learning is always fantastic technology use! Keep up the great work!
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Hi Daniela!
You are questioning this as effective integration of technology and I just want to shout a loud, Yes!!!!
Thank you so much for sharing! I really love the examples and the students having fun and being creative with their learning is always fantastic technology use! Keep up the great work!
Hi Shelly!
Thank you for your encouragement.
Very nice project! My congratulations!
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