Reading Post #6

A good activity mentioned in this articles is the one about "researching your comunity", such as the weather, geographical location, physical description, population, time zone, points of interest, and you can add much more. The students can use technology tools such as the Internet, local newscast, and a software program such as Kidzpiration to gather and organize their findings. This would be a great group project. For inquiry and proble solving, the students would pretty much be learning English as they learned their fisrt language. That is by trial and error, making comparisons, making obserbations while using metacogniytive skills. These activities support language learning in so many ways. First of all, they can apply the strategies to every day situations outside the classroom where they make important questions, recognize patterns, reflect, and make conclusions. Podcasting could be used within the inquiry and problem solving process because this multimedia tool allows for recording and publishing their research findings, such as interviews,oral history projects, storytelling,and so much more. This offers the opportunity for students to hear other students' native-like voices all around the world. -Rosario