by Cristell Ramirez

When reading chapter 2 of Sail the & C’s, I learned about a lot of different tools and the importance of communication. Communication is key to everything in my opinion. Especially as educators, being able to communicate is one of the most important aspects of teaching. Being able to communicate with your students is important along with them being able to communicate with us. There sometimes can be language barriers and we need to learn/teach our students to communicate us. Personally I feel like every student should have the access to this tool and or any translator tool. I understand what it feels like to have a language barrier and not understand what is going on because of it so having this is essential to me.

Microsoft translator is a tool in which you can have live captioning and translation in the classroom. Schools are becoming more and more diverse. There can be students who don’t speak English and their families can’t speak it either. Being able to communicate with the family of your students is also essential since you want the family of the student to be in the known of what they are learning in school. Not just there being a language barrier that this tool can be used for, it can also be used with students who are hard of hearing. Since it has a live captioning option, it can be used for the student to read the lesson and still get all the information.

Microsoft translator can be used for many different situations. As you can see you can use the live translator. If you are having a conversation with someone who speaks another language you can translate in the moment and it even speaks for you. In an education setting, you can use this with students or with the family of them to translate in real time or even give you captions. It can be used for presentations/lectures and it can be used during work groups. Here’s a little video on how to use translator in school.

Information from: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/translator/education/

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