Series Content Conversations: Strategies for ELLs: Using Technology to Boost Confidence

Using Technology to Boost Confidence

Lesson Objective: Use technology to build communication skills
All Grades / All Subjects / ELL
3 MIN

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Discussion and Supporting Materials

Thought starters

  1. How does Ms. Paraiso use technology to provide small group instruction?
  2. How can video recordings of current and former students boost student confidence?
  3. How can you use technology to improve communication skills in your own classroom?

26 Comments

  • Private message to Diana Duran

 I like how Ms. Paraiso uses Goggle Hangout to connect with students and for students to connect with other students. She also uses forms, discussions, and instruction using technology. By having students record themselves gives students the opportunity to go back and see how they can improve. It not only help with boosting their confidence but also with self-reflection. I would also use Google hangout for student to be able to interact with each other while learning. In this day and age there are many more platforms that provide students to communicate and engage in learning as well.

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  • Private message to Miguelina Almonte

can you tell me five teaching strategies that teachers use to teach reading virtually

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  • Private message to cely polanco

This is the first time I hear about this method and I love this. This teacher has taken commucation in the classroom to a new level. :) 

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  • Private message to Lauren Mullens

 1. She uses Google Hangouts with a specific date/time to be accessbile to no more than 10 students at a time.

 2. It can boost condfidence by either showing off skill growth, or showing off an achievement that the kids can rally around- one thing I learned in this video is that technology can actually be used to help boost personal skills.

 3. I personally like the idea of the Google Hangouts. I have friends all over the State that I would love to connect with and have the students talk about certain topics, etc. so that my students can gain viewpoints from other peers.

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  • Private message to Julio Jacobo-Martinez

Ms. Paraiso use technology to provide small group instruction so the students can have a conversation with her and feel more confident. Video recordings of current and former students can boost student confidence because now students can see that the work is doable and get encourage to participate. I can definitely use technology to improve communication because now days we have to adapt and incorporate as many tools as possible for student success. I really like how she offers to meet with them via hangouts after school to help those students that may need more support. Great idea and will definitely implement this in my classroom.

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Transcripts

  • Using Technology to Boost Confidence Transcript

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    Jo Paraiso: Your warm up is going

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    Jo Paraiso: Your warm up is going to be in online Google form, so that's why you have the Chromebooks. For folks that need to do reviews, you have all the links you need right there.
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    Johanna Paraiso
    12th Grade English Teacher
    Fremont High School, Oakland, CA
    Jo Paraiso: I use technology because this world that we live in now is asking the students to do so much when they get out.
    Jo Paraiso: So you're being presented with certain statements. You are trying to figure out, do I strongly agree, do I just agree, do I disagree, do I strongly disagree?

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    Jo Paraiso: There is a way to use technology that promotes communication, not just in the classroom, but to other classrooms, and I think that that part is really important.

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    Jo Paraiso: I use Google Hangouts so that my students can talk to other students across the country, specifically about their research, their senior research.
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    Student: For me, I think obstacles both keeps me going, but then it kind of drags me down a bit, because it kind of makes me doubt myself a little bit. But then at the same time, that's like a wakeup call for me.

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    Jo Paraiso: I use Google Hangouts for this class for a study group.
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    Google Hangout study group for Brave New World
    Jo Paraiso: Sometimes within the classroom setting, there is anxiety. You know, a student might not want to say what they don't know. I have often found that, okay, so let's jump on a Hangout. Miss P. is going to have a hangout Thursday night from 7:00 to 9:00 pm. You want to jump on, here's the link. It's optional.
    Jo Paraiso: You have to ask yourself, why does the author bring in these two characters? Like why does the author bring in two characters that are slightly individual, who are not happy with the society that they live in? They're not entirely happy.

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    Student: But they want to be like everybody else.
    Jo Paraiso: Is that the case, though?

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    Jo Paraiso: That method supports my ELL students, because it truly is small group. I can't have more than ten people in a Hangout. I never have usually more than five people. So it supports them because they can have a conversation with me. I've found that for them, being able to have that connection on an online level, there's a certain confidence they gain with using the computer, because they've been able to see themselves on a screen. It's actually pretty cool. And then if we do like a Google Hangout on air when they're recorded, and if we're doing it that way,
    then they can go back and they can see and hear what they sounded like in a discussion and there's so many things you can do with that too.

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    Jo Paraiso: What did it mean to you to be able to see people that you knew up on film? You can be honest.
    Student: It made me feel comfortable. Basically, like my friends were engaging in this conversation, so I could be able to engage too.
    Jo Paraiso: If we're teaching communication, then let's take communication like outer space kind of, you know, that far.
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