I have been reading and searching about scaffolding struggling readers from various resources. I am planning to design a MOOC for in-service teachers so that they can help their struggling readers in class by using technology.
In this process of reading and seacrhing, I have noticed that there are many technological tools that teachers may use such as text-to-vocie, annotation, word definition, concept mapping tools; however, what is missing is that there is no comprehensive tool including all these "sub-tools". I mean learners need to use Google Docs for annotations, but e-books (epubs) for word definition. Therefore, I have decided to start bird by bird;)
I will design a tool including all useful scaffolding sub-tools by adapting one of my favorite games on the web. For now, I will not tell which game it is, keeping it as a suprise, but I am sure that learners would love it.
And, this tool will be one of the components of my MOOC (Here is the template). That is, MOOC will try to teach in-service teachers how to use those scaffolding sub-tools which will be included in my comprehensive tool.
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