Hello colleagues: My fourteen year-old daughter prefers having on-line chats with her friends rather than speaking to them on the phone. I suspect that most of my students feel the same way, so I'm beginning to harness their skill at chatting to take our academic game to a higher level. So many of our students excel at keeping focused on videos while simultaneously chatting with a friend or two, so why not use this skill in the classroom as a communication tool?
I will show you how Today's Meet can facilitate intelligent dialogue, thoughtful questions, and creative connections the next time you show a video, play a song, or have read-alouds. In one of my ENG 10 classes, I have seen one of my quietest students, who has real challenges with the language, go from zero to sixty with the "Power of the Chat," becoming something of a class leader whenever we do this.
Please go to the following chatroom I prepared, and we will use the power of chat to enable our students to become better oral readers and critical thinkers: http://todaysmeet.com/teacherchat
