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Improving listening skills with Class Dojo

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For teachers, it is always important to be able to find quality material, above all it is essential to find the ideal component to deliver to students and implement in the classroom. With ClassDojo, we can find multiple ways to create activities including the active participation of EFL students so they can create, view and interact with the content that is created, we can even replicate the operation of known social networks so that the use is simpler.  As we get to know this platform better, we can focus on learning listening skills in English as a second language, describing the types of activities that are out of the ordinary (audios, videos).  The main objective is to improve the ability that allows students to obtain information over obtaining 100% correct answers in EFL conversations, this means, prepare them to be able to understand situations that they will encounter in real life, and not only in a formal context.  As students explore the Classdojo app, the...

Keep going with ClassDojo and the speaking skill 😄

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  To finish with this blog, we must remember what we talked about in the past entries, ClassDojo is a useful tool for students learning English, we can find different activities to carry out the main objective, which is to provide equal opportunities for everyone to learn in the same way and ensure that students take their respective times to perform the activities. ClassDojo helps students to understand and learn English in an entertaining and friendly way. This app is fundamental and relevant for the new generations as it teaches people who want to learn. It is worth noting that this application provides feedback to students and families, thus forming a stronger bond between the two groups as it gives them time to have a conversation about the mistakes or correct answers that the student achieved. This entry will focus on the skill of speaking, which is the oral interaction in which two or more people have a conversation about any topic, this skill is essential because it fac...

The benefits of ClassDojo for the reading skill development.

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As it has been talked about in the previous blog entrances, ClassDojo is an app that serves as helpful feedback to the students. It allows them to track their progress, as well as get rewards for good behavior and hard work. In this post, we will talk about what benefits there are in ClassDojo for the reading skill development, but first, it will go over what reading is and the importance of this skill. Reading is the ability to understand written or printed words by comprehending them with your brain. In other words, it means that you can decode a written text and make sense of what it means. This is an important skill because it helps you to understand the world around you. It helps your brain to learn from what you read. It is a very crucial skill that cannot be taken for granted. However, with the steady decline of reading skills as a global issue, many students do not know what this skill means and how important it is for their future development. One of ClassDojo's main go...

Let's write with ClassDojo !!

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ClassDojo is a beneficial platform in different areas for English as a second language. Utilizing their tools allows scholars to have a more varied type of class, and it could be suitable for each learning style. In this post, we want to emphasize writing skills. ClassDojo becomes a tool on which the teacher can rely because it is uncomplicated to understand and operate. The main objective to encourage EFL learners to acquire knowledge is to develop and promote students being responsible for their learning process. Through reflection, critical analysis, and synthesis of what they learn from the class. In this case, throughout writing experiences concerning what the students learned to encourage Social-emotional learning.  First, What is writing? It is a form of communication that consists of a process and stages, which aim to express ideas or emotions through writing skills. For learner s of a second language the writing process can be complicated or beneficial, but with the h...

What is ClassDojo?

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     ClassDojo is a digital platform that works to connect teachers, students and families inside and outside the classroom through a feed of photos and videos as well as messaging, it can be said that, this tool is similar to an instagram account, however it is not a social network to share your personal life, it is to monitor the teaching and learning process. ClassDojo is free, which allows teachers, students and the school community to access it. The most interesting thing is that this tool makes it possible to take the education of students beyond the classroom, involving families in their learning process.  One of the most used tools of class dojo is "Class Story ", which is the easiest way to share updates,  moments and notices to parents. How does ClassDojo work? ClassDojo works in such a way that a teacher can create several classrooms and incorporate their students, where they can check the attendance of students, upload content and tools that facili...