Technology Evidence

Teaching with technology or remote education has come a long way since resources began to be available on the internet. With a global pandemic pushing teaching with technology to the forefront, there are more resources than ever but it has come down to the individual educator's discretion to use one resource over another.

This page shares part of a lesson that I teach using the website Nearpod to facilitate student engagement in the material. Embedded here, you can walk through the partial lesson using Nearpod to give a sense of what is possible even if you are only using a simple enhanced presentation.

Even when not teaching fully digital, I believe that technology can be used to bring language learning to a modern environment. The other embedded Nearpod presentation is on how digital gaming can be a useful tool in a language learning classroom. While I have not found a digital game that I like for my classroom, there are several other resources that I do use. I have compiled many of them on a page that you can access from the button below.

In the embeded lessons below you can go through as a student to get a sense of how I teach with technology such as Nearpod. In the digital lesson students are learning about the Super 7 verbs or the 7 high frequency verbs through comprehensible input strategies and an emphasis on written production. In the gamification presentation, you can see how Nearpod can be used in a more formal context as well. This presentation is my digital presentation on an assigned chapter from The Handbook of Technology and Second Language Teaching and Learning.