There is a vast amount of educational webpages and technological
tools available online that can enhance teaching and learning, and they all
look exciting and interesting. However,
after this week’s experience, I think finding an appropriate webpage that suits
the class may not be that easy. One has
to put in a lot of considerations before adopting a certain technological
element into his or her lessons.
The reading “Tips and Advice from your Webskills Team: How to Write
a Technology Enhanced Lesson Plan” reminds me of a case study I did before on how
multimedia was used in a primary school, and the result was that technology was
used more like a “gimmick” than an educational tool to enhance teaching and
learning.
In fact, every now and then, I will question myself why I am using a
particular software or website for class.
Is it just for fun or to make the class seems more interesting? According to the article, technology used in
class should aid in achieving the language objective, but not letting the
technology drive the lesson. I totally
agree with that. However, sometimes when
I find interesting websites and activities I will just plug them in the lesson
without thinking carefully how learning can be enhanced with the use of
technology. When I started to write the
ABCD objective for my technology-enhanced lesson plan, I realized that the learning
objectives I had before were not clear and some were not met. I started to understand why some students did
not find the technology-enhanced activity useful though they claimed that they
liked and enjoyed it very much.
The other issue that I overlooked
in the past is evaluation of the success of the technology being incorporated in
class. It is possible to do an informal
evaluation, but we may be subjective.
How can we evaluate the success in a more formal way?
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