Cristen Royce Seoshin Middle School, Jeonju Let’s travel the world! Cristen Royce Seoshin Middle School, Jeonju

Using technology is only a means to an end Using technology is only a means to an end. It is up to the teacher to provide learning opportunities which will motivate students to use tools to their best advantage. Do you agree with the statement on this slide? Do you use smartphones or tablets in your classrooms?

Overview 1 Introduction 2 Present 3 Practice 4 Produce 5 More ideas 6 Questions Introduction: The principles of my camp idea. Study a new topic each day/class and let students learn about a new country through that topic. Present: Reading and making QR codes, Giving and making quizzes. Sample worksheet for taking notes, classroom discussion that relates to the quiz questions. Practice: Let students finish the worksheet. Play a class PPT game: trivia, quiz, jeopardy, bomb game… Make a craft or food, etc. Produce: Students choose a country, use phones to take notes to learn about the day’s topic in that country. More ideas: Questions: Leave about 10 minutes at the end hopefully.

1 Introduction

Fun and challenging. Simulate traveling Interesting topics Fun activities [Give an outline of the topics covered in my camp]

Project-based learning Writing skills taking notes making drafts scaffolding Cooperative learning Strengthen students’ writing skills: taking notes, making drafts, scaffolding

Smart learning Benefits Limitations Teacher role portable powerful apps for everything Limitations battery life Wi-Fi/data screen and keyboard size personal use Teacher role Digital natives? Adapting for education Discipline and distraction? Teach students some fun ways to use their smartphones for learning English Benefits: Portable, powerful, apps for everything Limitations: battery, Wi-Fi/data, screen size, keyboard, personal space *Acceptance of technology for educational purposes depends on modeling and input from the teacher. *If your school/room has Wi-Fi make sure the students have the password.

Helpful research sites. Multimedia – Assisted Language Learning http://journal.kamall.or.kr/ The Society for Teaching English through Media http://www.stemedia.co.kr/modules/dynamic_form/dyna_list.html?id=sub0303&PHPSESSID=23b351c571bda9080315355f6b13949b&p=10

Can you read a QR code? Quick Scan QR Code Reader Try this ^^ Teachers should download a QR code reader on their phone and scan this code to access my website. Quick Scan QR Code Reader Try this ^^

Let’s make a QR code. http://goqr.me/ Show teachers how to make a QR code with this website. This can be downloaded as a jpg/png file and inserted into a ppt. Or you can take a screenshot of the QR code using PPT’s “insert” function.

2 Present

As teachers, we have a responsibility to challenge our students to learn about the wider world they live in. If we don’t understand the world we live in, how can we hope to have an impact on it?

Today’s topic is animals. Write as many as you can on the paper. 1 point = Korean ½ point = English How many animals can you remember in 30 seconds? Memory challenge. Here is a fun way to introduce the topic of the day. Show a picture of a bunch of items and elicit the topic name (if they don’t know already from a syllabus). The pictures will be hidden after a set duration. The students should memorize as many as possible: they get 1 point if they can write them in their L2 and ½ point if they can write them in their L1. I don’t grade on spelling because it encourages L2 fluency and the point is memory, not perfection. Then trade papers and have them tally the score while you show the slide again. Give a candy to the winner(s).

Let’s take a quiz. 1 2 3 Type in your name. Giving a quiz generates students’ interest in the lesson and provides material to talk about for the presentation. Giving the quiz. Go to b.socrative.com. Sign up for a free teacher account. Make the quiz and start it. Give students a link (QR code) to the “room” and let them take the quiz. See the results real time and control what students can see. Use the results as a springboard for the presentation of the topic. [Do the quiz with the teachers in the presentation]. http://www.thefactsite.com/2010/09/300-random-animal-facts.html 3 Type in your name.

Making quizzes… http://socrative.com/

Class discussion Why are so many animals becoming extinct? How can people help save the animals? This is the guided discussion phase where I try to get the students interested in the topic. You can find lots of engaging videos and pictures on the internet but always pre-screen materials to make sure they are at the appropriate level for your students’ age and language ability, as well as relevant to the discussion you want to have. Students listen better when they have a reason. Make a worksheet with gap-fill, multiple choice, true-false, ordering, etc. activities that will reinforce the topic. Relate it to the content in the quiz and any practice games or crafts they will do. Video Links: Why are many animals going extinct? Man by Steve Cutts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfGMYdalClU How can people help to save them? Animals save the planet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83wINVmrRkA

Zoos or wildlife parks? Talk about the differences between these two pictures. Which one is better and why?

Do animals have rights? Is it okay to test animals? Is it okay to eat meat? (cow, pig, dog, dolphin) Talk about testing animals for cosmetic products and science. Talk about eating meat. What kinds of meat are okay to eat? What meat do different cultures eat?

3 Practice

Other materials for the worksheet. Give students some time to work on any more activities on the worksheet. Example: Make a crossword or word search puzzle using Discovery Puzzle Maker with topic content. Give students a folder with their name to keep their work and save it in the classroom so they don’t lose it.

Play a PPT game. trivia flag quiz Jeopardy Who wants to be a millionaire Bomb game Golden Bell… Kids love playing games. Use material from the quiz and presentation in the games to reinforce the learning. Waygook.org is full of game ideas that people have made but it is important to modify them to fit your own style and materials. If you make a bomb game, change the picture slides to fit the topic theme so the students have to say the picture names to play.

15 questions Is it big/strong/fast/smart? Can it jump/swim/fly/run/eat meat? Does it have long ears/a tail/4 legs? Yes / No / Maybe Think of an animal and write it down on a secret paper. Have students ask questions and write their answers under (yes/no/maybe) on a grid. They 15 chances to guess the animal and the number of questions they have left when they guess correctly is their score. Play first as a class and then have partners or groups play.

Using older technology. If you have more time to fill, plan to make some kind of craft or cook some food during the lesson. During this lesson I bring colorful paper and make some animal shapes with the students. They don’t learn much about the animals or English, but they learn other skills and it’s a good way to interact. There are great videos on YouTube with step-by-step instructions in folding origami.

4 Produce

Choose a country. USA Let each pair of students choose 2 countries randomly from a bag. Let them choose between the 2 and put the other back in the bag. This is the country they will “visit” (learn about) today.

Endangered animals Ask the students the names of some endangered animals. Let’s learn about the endangered animals in the country they chose.

Red Wolf Make a poster. What does it look like? It is brown, gray, and red. It looks like a big dog. How many are left in the wild? There are around 207 wolves. Where does it live? It lives in the forest. Explain to the students the elements of the poster: Write the name of the animal, draw the animal, draw the flag of the country, write the questions and answers they find. Guidelines: write the country’s name, draw the flag, draw a picture of the topic, write at least 5 sentences Scaffolding: On the board write some optional expressions for students to use in their writing to help or challenge them. You can give the students a specific challenge: Find an endangered animal in your country. Answer the following questions. (Notes for the Red Wolf come from http://www.defenders.org/red-wolf/basic-facts.) What does it eat? It usually eats small animals, insects, and berries. Who/what kills it? People want to kill it. It is also losing its home.

More helpful websites. Help your students find useful and readable information on the internet. Here are some sites I used for this topic. Give students some questions to guide them in learning about the topic in their chosen country. Provide QR code links for useful websites they can use to find info for that topic. Allow them to use the school computer if they don’t have a phone. Give them an A4 paper. Write notes on back. http://racingextinction.discoveryeducation.com/ If they can’t find exact answers or they don’t know, help them to research or write that they can’t find the information. If you click on “Find an animal for your country” you will be able to search for lots of animals easily. I try to help them choose a type of animal that they like and assign them an animal if they can’t decide. Usually just showing a picture of the animal will help. Try searching this website for endangered animals by country: http://earthsendangered.com/search-regions3.asp

Play background music. Find music from the countries that students are learning about. There are some really interesting music videos with dancing that I found from different countries that the students were learning about. Some songs get really repetitive or have strange sounds that can distract the students so choose wisely. The Lion King soundtrack is also nice for tribal music and will be familiar.

5 More ideas

Check their passports. I went to Brazil 3 stamps for poster if they: wrote 5 sentences drew pictures (with color) worked together I learned about animals… I give students a mock Korean passport that they can use as a travel diary for the camp. Students should complete each page of their passport before receiving stamps. This is an pass/fail assessment of their poster project. I give 3 stamps if they: wrote 5 sentences, drew picture (with color), worked together to complete the project.

Present the poster. If there is time have students share their work with the class. You can create a rubric for students to give each other feedback on their work. http://mrsgilkison.weebly.com/kid-friendly-rubric.html

Decorate the classroom. Hang up students’ posters. Hang up a large map. During the camp, hang up the students’ completed work. This is great if your walls are boring and it will encourage the students to do better work each day. Hang up a large map of the world in the classroom. Use different colored pins and string to have students chart where they have traveled.

On the last day… Have a final quiz. Make individual books Individual or group competition with candy prizes. Make individual books Worksheets, cover page Make a class book Posters, cover page Tourist shop Exchange passport stamps for prizes. Have a final quiz to review all of the topics from the camp. Do as individuals or as groups and give candy prizes to the winners. Have students make individual books with their saved worksheets from the whole camp. Make a cover page with topics or countries that they found interesting. Write their name and date and teacher’s name so they can keep it. Use heavy staples to bind the book. Make a class book with all of the posters when the camp is finished and keep it in the classroom for future classes to see. They can work together to decorate the cover page and sign the back page. Use a hole punch and string to bind the pages. Students get prizes for their stamps from the “tourist shop.” Set up a reward system with the best gift for the maximum number of stamps possible. Cheap stationery gifts and candy work well.

6 Questions?

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