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What's Going On in This Picture?
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The New York Times releases a picture from one of their news articles each week. The catch is that they do not release the headline until the end of the week. The pictures are often of curious events that can prompt excellent dicusssion. The teacher can use these picture prompts to practice a number of strategies. For example, students can get practice describing what they see. They could also practice agreeing and disagreeing if they need to decide what is really happening. They could practice making predictions and integrate writing by creating potential headlines of their underline. At the end of the week, the teacher could then release the headline to the students and students could evaluate their own predictions.
Google Arts and Culture
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Google Arts and Culture is far underutilized by teachers and can provide for powerful discussion in the classroom. This tool provides a number of interactive tools such as 3D tours of famous museums and sites. It allows students to have an immersive experience that they wouldn't normally be able to have from the classroom. One way this tool is to allow students to tour a museum. Students can be given specific question to answer. They then might be given the opportunity to present what they learned to the class as presentational skills are an important component of learning to speak a language. Alternatively, the tours could also be used as a jumping off point for a rich class discussion or debate.
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