I'm relieved that this week’s tasks are all done in the midst of picnics!
The readings were interesting as they were varied. Jarek
Krajka’s article was very practical as teaching different genres of
writing was addressed through the Internet, Mei-Ya Liang’s article
showed the importance of learners’ autonomy and how this is related to
motivation in the learning process, and Chao-chih Liao’s
article showed how using emailing project under CPAW program worked wonders for
students in Taiwan. I never knew key pals exist!
As my Nicenet
classmates provided wonderful reading, writing and vocabulary tasks with the
help of technology and as I kept adding useful links to my Delicious page,
another week came to an end. Technology or not, I try to incorporate critical
thinking into my lessons whenever possible, and I congratulate my classmates
like Hector for his idea of making students write a
letter being Charlie (a character) and Izela asking students write a different
version of the story in their proposed lessons. It’s interesting to see how
teachers in different parts of the world are striving to create an ‘educated’
generation.
I browsed lot of new sites, shared quite a few with my colleagues at my
work place, thought of ways to include technology in lessons and finally
prepared a technology-enhanced lesson plan with the use of Google doc.
On
the whole, this week’s message to me is – the lesson and its objective are
primary, technology should be thought of as a tool to assist us in implementing
the lesson and ensuring that learning takes place. Technology shouldn't be used
in an overtly dependent manner by us. We should be able to teach even without
the presence of technology. In addition, I'm looking forward to the project work by which I hope to solve problems with the help of technology!
Dear Tahsina,
ReplyDeleteI would like to hear your opinio about emailing project. Do you think it could be useful nowadays?
Dear Jurgita,
ReplyDeleteI think you are asking the importance of using email in the classroom. Use of email is far better if your students have good access of internet and Laptop or Computer at home. For the usefulness, firstly, as students have become more savvy at using technology, including social media websites and electronic mail accounts, teachers are better able to connect and communicate with students by sending them emails. Secondly, email makes it possible for teachers to send out important messages about topics, such as breaks, changes in assignments and class cancellations, to large groups of students at once, saving the teacher's time. This is especially helpful if last-minute changes have to be made as well as teachers or students receive documents or messages from each other that others may want to share with others, they can use the forward feature within most email accounts to send the info on to other.
Likewise, there are many other usefulness of email. That's why it is very useful nowadays.
Dear Jurgita
ReplyDeleteThe project, Computer Pals Across the World (CPAW ), made students of Taiwan get connected to students of Australia, Czech Republic, Germany, Ireland, Romania, and the United States. The instructor gave topics of discussion to the students for writing emails. The emails exchanged went through a moderation of the instructor and analysis in terms of structure, grammar and vocabulary.
I think the project can be useful now-a-days as it's guided writing, addresses language learning, makes students write to authentic readers, practice communication and makes them aware about other cultures.
Sharmila, thanks for adding up.
Tahsina