Technology & Pedagogy

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                     I chose this particular lesson plan to work with because I really liked the idea that it involved so many different aspects! This lesson plan involves both the French language, and the French culture as well since it has to do with travel to Francophone countries. (French travel brochures, etc.) This lesson plan also includes the technology aspect as well since students will have to not only just research online to make the poster, but the poster they will make, is an online poster. This will allow them to work with the Internet, and also with brochure/poster making computer programs. The students will also be involved in video/audio listening/viewing for familiar words/phrases that they could use in their posters and presentations. I think that this lesson plan does a great job of filling in the gaps between the curriculum goals, teaching strategies and technology used. This lesson plan allowed for the teacher to have to teach the students vocabulary, as well as use technology as a supplementary source for the students to learn the essential vocab, and test their comprehension of it. As stated before, this lesson plan then allows the students to use the technology to present their online posters. The computer is essential to this project as the students need to watch/listen to videos online in order to learn more vocab and test their comprehension, and the computer is also needed for the oral part of the project which is the presentation.