Channel 13's database of lesson plants on Vital NY is a great resource for beginner teachers. Not only does it have lesson plans that can be directly lifted from the site, but most of the lesson plans can be reformatted to fit any lesson. As long as a teacher takes the lesson activity or idea he or she can change it to fit any topic. The many video resources will also be helpful for the ever growing visual learner students.
SAS Curriculum Pathways, as seen from their demo, have many tools at the disposal of teachers and students. The programs look to be engaging and even entertaining for the students. For English, the writing reviser will be extremely helpful for student writing. Although I fear it might kill the style and voice of some students who are already competent writers. It also may make students lazy in correcting mistakes in their writing on their own and have them depend on a program to correct grammatical errors.
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I agree with your stance on the aspect of what happens to the students who are good at writing with conventional means. Poor students however would benefit so I guess we as teachers have to find ways of balancing things out.
ReplyDeleteIt isn't necessarily a resource you would use with every student. It also doesn't correct the errors. It can be filtered to look at various aspects of your writing. It can also be used with a good writer to show things they are doing well to share with another student or to really look at their writing to see areas that they might want to improve on. Take some time to explore it a little more.
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