On Jan. 9, Kim Ruggiero and Monica Santaly, Languages Other Than English (LOTE) teachers from Walter G. O’Connell Copiague High School, were honored for their use of technology in classroom instruction by the Association of Suffolk Supervisors of Technology in Education (ASSET) at the organization’s annual Bright Lights Awards Luncheon. “Incorporating technology is vital to our students’ learning styles,” said Ms. Santaly. “Not every student learns the same way, and by incorporating technology into each lesson, you can help a student understand topics in different ways. This makes a lesson interactive for the hands-on learners and visually interesting for the more visual learners.” Added Ms. Ruggiero, “It’s important to be able to connect with the ever-changing generation of technology.”
Both teachers use SmartBoards to enhance their lessons, as well as document cameras and video cameras, which are used to create cooking shows, music videos and soap operas for the students to work on their vocabulary and grammar.
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