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Integrating Critical Thinking and web-based activities
Goal: Participants will be able to create a web-based activity using concepts
of critical thinking to accomplish one well-written instructional objective.
Using websites: ELT vs Authentic websites√ ELT websites provide lots of content that our learners can use.
√ They provide valuable opportunities for more controlled practice.
√ They are a great help for learners who need to brush up on certain aspects of the language.
√ They are often used for homework.
Using websites: ELT websites
wps.pearsonlongman.com/topnotch3/
www.esl-galaxy.com
www.ezschool.comwww.prongo.co
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www.starfall.com
www.englishmedialab.com
www.stickyball.
com
www.ello.org
Using websites: Authentic websites pros and
consХ Students will find them too difficult.
Х It takes too much time.
√ Authentic websites can be chosen to fit your students’ interests.
√ They provide an opportunity to work with “total comprehension”.
√ Their use fosters independent learning.
Critical Thinking???
Responding
Summarizing
Comparing
Naming
Hypothesizing
Designing
Finding
Giving examples
Carrying out
Selecting
Judging
Making
Uploading
Advanced searching
Tagging
Bookmarking
Networking
Videocasting
Googling
Tweeting
Sharing
Linking
Blogging
Wiki-ing
Visual courtesy of the Southern Indiana University
Critical thinking links to check
Voicethread
Gliffy
visuwords Protagonize
Johnlocker
Storybird
Using authentic websites
Food delicacies
Source 1 Source 3
Goal: Students will discuss weird food experiences and describe a weird food from another country using a 3-5 minute voice thread presentation.1. Students talk briefly about their favorite food. Teacher asks students what the weirdest food they have tried is and which the weirdest food in Colombia is.2. Students go over article on web page. They discuss what the weirdest kind of food is and select one to find out more about it.3. Students would triangulate information in three different sources and learn some more about their choice, then record themselves (3-5 minutes) talking about the food they chose.Source 2
Goal: Describe an animal and its habitat getting information from a web site. Pre: Students would discuss what their favorite animals are. While: Students would visit the page and select an animal of their interest. They would read the information about the specie and make a summary of the most important facts including the range in which they are found. Post: Students would create a brochure in which they talk about the animal they selected.
Animals
Now it is your turn!Follow the following instructions:
1. Choose a topic and a goal for one of your classes.2. Look for a non-educational website you can use to fit the goal
of your class.3. Prepare a 5-minute description of the activity and show the
website to your partners in class on Thursday, March 16.4. Write a lesson plan for the activity keeping in mind the
elements and approaches we discussed in class and send it to my mail:
[email protected] [email protected]
5. Deadline: March 18th, 20176. Pray!
Keep in mind
Have a blast!
The website is non-educational. 1 2 3 4 5Students have a chance to use the webpage and produce a language outcome based on the content. 1 2 3 4 5The objectives include the four parts of the ABCD model. 1 2 3 4 5The lesson plan shows an appropriate sequence and enough detail to be understood. 1 2 3 4 5The lesson includes elements of critical thinking 1 2 3 4 5
The lesson plan was sent on time 1 2 3 4 5Grade
