Mrs Smith's Year 2 Class - 2014

 

Learning will be structured but individual at the same time.  Students will be given online English games from sites like BBC that will developing their vocabulary, reading, writing, spelling and listening skills.  Online resources like Storyjumper are online writing tool which provides students with sequencing of their narrative.  Other online programmes will provide logical thinking games.  Digital cameras are used for problem solving, communication and illustrations of thoughts, ideas and stories.  These types of authentic activities can be produced the resources found on the internet.

 

There are programmes that will provide speech to text and text to speech for those students that are unable to read and write due to learning disabilities.  Providing these tools will benefit the students in their learning process giving them the same advantages as the other students in the class.

 

Vygosky and Piaget embraced the philosphy that learning should be taught through interaction (Sigelman & Rider, 2012).

Students will work collaborately, cooperatively with peers and teachers when using the technology in the classroom.