Kaytlin Czeslaw
In today’s diverse classroom, it has become more common to have classrooms with students who come from different language backgrounds. While this diversity helps enhance our learning environment, it may also serve as a challenge of communication in our classrooms. With Microsoft’s Translator Tool, it offers solutions to these issues and serves a great resource for students, educators, and more even outside of the classroom.
This tool can translate text, speech, and even conversation as it is happening in real time. The aspects of this tool make it a great resource for the classroom. Educators can use this in the classroom by translating lesson materials, ensuring that all students have an equal understanding of what they are learning. This also helps the students coming from different linguistic backgrounds keep up with their peers so they don’t feel like they are behind in any way.
As mentioned before, the conversation mode in Microsoft’s tool is really great to use in the classroom, especially for group work assignments. Because this tool allows the translation of conversation as it is happening in real time, it will help students communicate with other students. This tool proves to be a great way to include these students in collaboration. This tool may also be useful for parent-teacher meetings, to help ensure the educator and parents or guardians have an efficient ent way of communicating.
Using this tool in the classroom opens the door to opportunity and creates a more inclusive environment for students and families who speak different languages. The implementation of this tool is a great way to show how education is constantly adapting and finding new ways to connect with students so they feel safe in their environment. Microsoft’s Translator is an amazing tool that helps educators, students, and families thrive in a more diverse community.
For the student and teacher Microsoft Translator does a few things. First, the student will get a better understanding of what is being communicated. Second, the teacher will feel at ease that the student has a good understanding of what is being taught. Finally, the student will not feel lost of left out because of a language barrier more so included and cared for.