Migrant ESL High School Students Succeed Using Networked Laptops
What: This article, called Migrant
ESL: High school Student’s Succeed Using Networked Laptops, written by Carolyn
Knox and Lynne Anderson-Inman is about incorporating the use of technology for
Spanish speaking students. Many families have begun to move from Mexico to Oregon
in a means to find work. Within these families are children who are still eager
to learn, however they do not speak the primary language of English which is taught
in Oregon education systems. As a second language English learner a struggle
really takes place in a school that teaches everything in a student’s second
language. In order to meet the needs of these students, Oregon department of
Education began an act called “Project in Time”. Within this act students were
provided with a note taking/mentoring partner that took notes on key words and
ideas for the students and translated those notes for the students to
understand, providing the relationship of text to speech. Overall, the program
provided five main results. These results provided support for 1. Student
success in school: higher grades 2. Individual Migrant Student Lifestyles 3.
Student Acquisition of Bilingual Literacy Skills 4. Teachers in the classroom
and 5. Student Acquisition of Technology Skills. Overall, the act significantly
helped the student throughout the curriculum and in the Oregon School setting
and the teachers didn’t even have to change their daily routine.
So
What: This is significant
because of the diverse area we live in today. In our education systems there
are such a wide range of English Language Learners and knowing that something
works in our education systems that can increasingly help their grades, help them
to understand the curriculum and language in our classrooms and to allow them
to succeed is such wonderful news. As an educator, you want to help all of your
students succeed, including those who do not speak the same language as you or
the rest of the class, it is my job to find ways to help that student and this
act is a great way to do it. I would love to hear more about how we can
incorporate this into our school systems.
Now
What: I would
love to apply this reading and new knowledge into my school district by talking
to other educators about it and letting people become more aware of the act Oregon
applied to their school district. I would love to incorporate this idea of technology
for EL’s and ESL’s in my classroom. I want to help students succeed and provide
them with different ways to do so, and this is a great way for me to do so!
Knox, C., & Anderson-Inman, L. (2001, February). Migrant
ESL High School Students Succeed Using Networked Laptops. Learning &
Leading with Technology, 28(5), 18-21. Accessed November 12, 2012,
from ISTE. WWW.ISTE.org
Jamie,
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed reading your blog! This was not one of the articles that I read so it was interesting to see it from your perspective. I feel that after reading your post, I am more familiar with technology in classrooms. Would you consider using technology throughout your entire lesson, or do you still feel we are in need of some old school tactics? Great post!
Jamie,
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed reading your blog! This was not one of the articles that I read so it was interesting to see it from your perspective. I feel that after reading your post, I am more familiar with technology in classrooms. Would you consider using technology throughout your entire lesson, or do you still feel we are in need of some old school tactics? Great post!
Hi Jamie,
ReplyDeleteI like that you are looking foward to help your students. Another aspect of your article that I found very benificial was that other students were actually helping their classmates. In addition of the ESL students learning, the other students are learning and improving their school curriculum by providing assistance to other students. In this case, everybody is learning. I had always thought that speaking more than one language is very beneficial for students and educators. Besides this program do you have any tips on how to help your future ESL students?