Technology will get better.
Years ago, when I used Google Translate, the translations were more than nothing. But, every year it gets better and better. I have traveled and presented internationally many times in many languages. A feat that would have been difficult without Google Translate.
It’s time to stop pretending that our students won’t have access to technological tools that can help them succeed in ways that the 1980s couldn’t.
Photomath
I don’t teach language classes, I teach math. I’ve heard more than one curse from a math teacher Photomath. Not familiar with Photomath? IT will allow students to keep their phone on the math problem and it will not only give them the answer but it will also show all the steps. English teachers before the advent of technology had to struggle to get students to buy purl.
Fighting these tools is pointless, technology is not going away. It will only get better. Having access to Google Search, Photomath, Google Translate ensures that our students will NOT be paralyzed in the future when they need to know the basics. Of course, I went to school with the “old” way of teaching (I’m 45, graduated from high school in 1995.) I had to memorize a lot of facts to write the correct answer in one line on Tuesday and only to forgot about it a week later. . Things I use contextually in my life, I remember without a problem or without using a tool. However, the things I learned were superficial for a test that I could easily access.
Use Google Translate or Photomath
Thinking that our students won’t use these tools for their homework is naive at best. Instead, I ask students to use them. Stop hiding your phone under your desk, don’t think I don’t know what you’re doing. Instead, we ask students to analyze the results critically. “What’s another way of expressing this?” “What other words could we use to understand this idea?” “Apart from using the order of operations, what is another way to simplify this expression?” “What would change if the coefficient was negative instead of positive?”
Many ways
One thing I want my students to feel comfortable with is seeing equivalent expressions. There are many ways to answer a math question and many ways to answer a question (possibly in another language.) For math, I use Easy math to allow students to discover 5 solutions or simply the same equation/expression. The existence of Graspable Math doesn’t make me feel like there is another way for students to cheat, but instead, students will have access to these tools in the future and help them understand it’s usefulness. how and how not. Change the question to take advantage of more than simply saying that students cannot use these technological advances.
Google Forms: Set a confirmation message
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Google Classroom: Scoring with Drive Preview
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