The General Objective number seven for the
Primary Education in Andalusia establishes “to value the foreign language
and languages in general as a way of communication between people from
different nationalities and origins, developing a positive attitude through
multilingual and multicultural diversity integrated in our community”. Attending
to this, I would introduce my students one of the most important and famous
American authors in children´s literature, Dr. Seuss.
As we celebrate Book´s Day on
23rd April because of the anniversary of the death of Cervantes and
Shakespeare, in United States of America, “Read Across America” is celebrated
on 2nd March, and it started to honour the birthday date of Dr.
Seuss.
In order to connect the
General Objectives with the use of Time Toast, I would mention the objective
number 5 “to learn how to use with progressive autonomy all the resources
within their reach, including new technologies to obtain information and to
communicate in the foreign language”.
Saying this, I would be able
to set the following learning objectives inside the classroom:
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To learn about English literature.
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To bring American culture to the class.
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To provide my students with practical use of technology.
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To practice and use English in a meaningful and
motivating way.
My students enjoy each
activity that involves the use of ICT, it increases their motivation and, normally,
they are quite independent when working online. To use Time Toast will probably
enhance their digital competence at the same time reading skills.
I would set the timing for
this activity inside the last fortnight of the first term, once all the
didactic units have been taught. Taken advantage of this time of the year,
Christmas time, I would present one of Dr. Seuss´ most famous stories, the
Grinch. Even there would be a chance to watch in class one of the many movies there
are about this typical Christmas character.
Next step will be search on Internet other books form
this author and present the Time Toast webpage and a brief presentation of how
it works.
By creating a time line using
the computer class and the white board, I will illustrate my students with the
main features, how to download images, how to upload them, etc. I could use the
tutorial that already exists on this course.
I could predict some likely
problems that it may happen in class. The main one it could be that the whole
webpage/interface is in English. Even when they are used to use apps in
English, they could struggle through their usage. Furthermore, there is no
computer room in my school, so the learners would have to bring their own
devices and not all of them have the chance to own one, therefore,
collaborative work (pairs-groups of three) will be necessary in order to fix
probable issues.
Another difficulty could be the time my student could spend signing up themselves, searching all those pictures, downloading all of them… so I would plan the activity for, at least, two or three sessions/classes.
Here it is the link:
https://www.timetoast.com/timelines/2442358
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