Week 13: Particpation Through Technology

In the articles required for this week “10 Benefits of Getting Students to Participate in Classroom Discussions” by Maryellen Wimer, and “Increase Student Interaction with ‘ThinkPair-Shares’ and ‘Circle Chats’”  by Kristina Robertson, exposed how boost participation through languge learners and the benefits of doing it.

In the first article, the author claimed about the benefits of student’s participation in classroom discussions. Something that I learned from this article is that by listening how students express their ideas, we as teachers can identify the areas where students need to emphasize. Furthermore, when students give us a wrong answer it is an indicator that students did not understand the topic of the class. In the same way, the second article provides two activities that promote participation, which are “ThnkPairShares” and “Circle Chats”. What I like the most from this article is the facts that author explain in clear way the steps of these activities, something that results very helpful at the time to do these activities with students.

In addition, in one of our task for this week, we had experience to participate through technology by giving our opinions about the articles that I mentioned above, in a website called Nicenet. From these articles I learned that taking an online class does not mean that you will not participate in classes.