Tech Toolkit #2

Tech Toolkit #2

The tech I would want my students to use in my classroom is called “Goodreads”

Goodreads is one of my favorite website of all time, basically what Goodreads is a website that allows readers to freely search a book, read critical responses about a book, see Goodreads extensive user populated database of a book. Readers can sign up and register with their Facebook or Google Email to generate library catalogs a reading list, they can create their own groups of book discussions and suggestions. Goodreads gives readers suggestions for future reading choices based on the books they’ve viewed or comment on. Readers can save the books they want to read in shelves, they also can save the books they’ve already read to remember and have a count of how many books they are reading every year. How many times have you wished to know people who have read your favorite book, or you wished to share with the world your thoughts about a book you read? Well Goodreads gives you the opportunity to do so. I want my students to share their critical thoughts, response about the books they read, in order for them to remember latter what the book was about and what was their thoughts on it. I want them to see what other people from across the world think about the same book we read at school. Through Goodreads students can look at books from different perspectives, and learn that not all readers see the same book from one view. Students can read the book at home and write their discussions publish it in Goodreads, and rate the book. Goodreads gives you the ability to see what other people are reading, people like your teacher’s friends, and your favorite authors. Me as a teacher can create class discussion based on the books my students are reading in class, and grade their critical thinking that they published.