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This presentation will examine the meeting of a technology and three teaching strategies for English language learners. The technology used here is the website Google Earth. The three strategies are from Herrell & Jordan's (2019) work on strategies for ELLs. Those strategies are; Choosing Technology Based on Student Needs: Advancing Progress in English Language and Content Learning, Culture Studies: Learning Research Skills and Valuing Home Cultures in One Project; and Integrated Curriculum Projects: Using Authentic Projects to Integrate Content Knowledge.
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Technology & ELL:
Virtual Excursions Using Google Earth

This presentation will examine the meeting of a technology and three teaching strategies for English language learners. The technology used here is the website Google Earth. The three strategies are from Herrell & Jordan's (2019) work on strategies for ELLs. Those strategies are; Choosing Technology Based on Student Needs: Advancing Progress in English Language and Content Learning, Culture Studies: Learning Research Skills and Valuing Home Cultures in One Project; and Integrated Curriculum Projects: Using Authentic Projects to Integrate Content Knowledge.
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TECHNOLOGY BENEFITS

  • Keeping pace with society
  • Access to limitless information
  • Adeptness at accessing and managing digital information and hardware
  • Closes the technology as well as linguistic gaps of ELLs
  • Provides ELLs opportunities in reading, writing, speaking, and listening
In our post-modern society, technology is ubiquitous, and this is true in teaching and learning as well (Herrell & Jordan, 2019, p. 63). The benefits of technology in teaching and learning is not an optional activity, and this is true for pragmatic as well as philosophical reasons. Some of those reasons are from The Partnership for 21st Century Learning's work, which offers "skills and themes students will be expected to acquire in order to participate successfully in the fast-paced digital age:"
content and 21st century themes, skills in learning, innovation, information, media, technology, life, and career skills. (Herrell & Jordan, 2019, p. 63).
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THE TECHNOLOGY: GOOGLE EARTH

  • Projects: design your own
  • Measuring: accurate distances and sizes
  • Fun: "I'm feeling lucky"
  • Voyager: targeted and structured exploration
Google Earth is accessible to ELLs who have resources to possess the necessary hardware and connections. It is also accessible in media centers, libraries, and schools. Google Earth offers four options at opening: making presentations and projects, measuring, the "lucky choice," and Voyager, which grants access to many prefabricated programs, and well as the ability to chart one's own course based on need or interest (Google Earth, n.d.) Voyager is the tool we will be emphasizing for use with ELLs.
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INSTRUCTIONS

  • Begin>Chrome>Earth> launch Earth>then...
  • Nature, Education, Travel, and Culture are options
  • Changing languages is easy
  • The help/search field can direct to specific interests
Once you are in Earth, there are many pre-configured lessons which could be accessed by English language students to use linguistic skills (especially reading) even as they explored geography, history, cultural opportunities (Google Earth, n.d.). Many of the lessons are accompanied by audio, which can aid in listening skills. In addition to the lessons, there are historical as well as just fun journeys (Google Earth, n.d.).
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INSTRUCTIONS

  • Begin>Chrome>Earth> launch Earth>then...
  • Nature, Education, Travel, and Culture are options
  • Changing languages is easy
  • The help/search field can direct to specific interests
Once you are in Earth, there are many pre-configured lessons which could be accessed by English language students to use linguistic skills (especially reading) even as they explored geography, history, cultural opportunities (Google Earth, n.d.). Many of the lessons are accompanied by audio, which can aid in listening skills. In addition to the lessons, there are historical as well as just fun journeys (Google Earth, n.d.).
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STRATEGIES 1 & 2:

  • Choosing technology (student needs/EL content)
  • Culture Studies (research and valuing culture)
These strategies are adaptable to any age, and could be done as individual, pair, or group work. Choosing technology involves making "technology choices to facilitate the learning of...individual students who are...acquiring English "Herrell & Jordan, 2019, p. 63). Choosing as a strategy is about the right choices for the right students, not just finding what is fun.
Culture studies can be about a student's "cultural history (Herrell &Jordan, 2019, p. 230). Culture studies can also involve the study of vastly different and new cultures, even the new culture of ELLs' current home. This strategy offers the support of "Many different language arts skills" (Herrell & Jordan, 2019, p. 230).
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Strategy #3

  • Integrated curriculum projects: Using authentic projects to integrate content knowledge
The use of Google Earth provides countless ways for "Learning by doing" (Herrell & Jordan, 2019, p. 254). If one of the goals is to integrate, say, science or social studies in a way that utilizes language arts and mathematics in order to "accomplish and authentic task" (Herrell & Jordan, 2019, p. 254), Google Earth offers such opportunities and much more. Integration of content areas is particularly useful for ELLs as it offers the chance to use English in a variety of ways. Add to the use of several areas the development of problem-solving, research, and planning, and the learning opportunities become ever larger.
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RESEARCH-BASED SUPPORT

  • Technology is necessary
  • It's use in education is ethical
  • The use of several strategies meets needs of educators
Research shows that "Combining strategies and scheduling time for differentiated instruction are major concerns for all teachers" Herrell & Jordan, 2019, p. 323). This is another strategy presented by Herrell & Jordan, (2019). This is complicated by the fact the ELLs not only need instruction in content areas, but they also require the formation of English language skills necessary to unlock the possibilities in those content areas. What is evident is that the strategies presented by Herrell & Jordan, 2019) are supported by research. Research shows the use of Google Earth along with the strategies in this presentation, could only add to the final goal: teaching that produces learning.
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MATCHING GOOGLE EARTH and the STRATEGIES

  • Technology that matches language and academic needs
  • Meeting standards
  • Authenticity leading to a learning experience
The steps to choosing technology for ELLs includes "Look for technology to match both the language levels and the academic needs of your students" and "Never use (technology) just because it is available" (Herrell & Jordan, 2019, p. 64). Common Core State Standards require the integration of "history and the social sciences with the study of reading, writing, speaking, and listening" (Herrell & Jordan, 2019, p. 230). All of these strategies result in "students...learning vocabulary and having experiences that demonstrate the need to use knowledge in multiple disciplines to complete real-life work" (Herrell & Jordan, 2019, p. 254).
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EXAMPLES

  • Social Studies: Columbus to ???
  • Science: The journey of diseases
  • Mathematics: Measuring population growth or decline
  • Art or Music: Evidence of geographic migration with immigration tides
  • The match (fit) is organic
These four examples are but a few, and these could be tied to the experiences and cultures of origin of some ELLs. Columbus's voyages could explain the beginning of Spanish language dominance in Central and South America. The migration of diseases followed the migration of people to the Americas. Population changes due to the arrival and departure of immigrant ELLs are a reality of the changing face of the English-speaking world today. Many great artists and musicians were famous ELLs in this land at one time (Picasso or Yo-Yo Ma for example). The possibilities to create interest in most content areas through connections and similarities exist in abundance.
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References
Herrell, A. L., & Jordan, M. (2019). 50 strategies for teaching English language learners (6th edi.). Boston: Pearson

Google Earth. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://earth.google.com/web/@18.48246001,12.18463963,438.51474359a,2517527...

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