ØHow could ICT improve the efficiency and effectiveness of writing tasks in English Panels?
To expand: How, when and where can ICT be employed within the teaching-learning-assessment-feedback, etc. cycle of writing tasks (long tasks such as compositions in particular but it could be used for all text types) to improve learning outcomes and the efficiency of teachers.
Justification:
From first-hand observations and experience, there is a dire need!
To expand: How, when and where can ICT be employed within the teaching-learning-assessment-feedback, etc. cycle of writing tasks (long tasks such as compositions in particular but it could be used for all text types) to improve learning outcomes and the efficiency of teachers.
Justification:
From first-hand observations and experience, there is a dire need!
Totally agree with your justification. It seems that a lot of the local primary and secondary schools are only using ICT to enhance staff communication but not teaching and learning.
ReplyDeleteTwo things may be added, including students’ perceptions and learning behaviour, which makes the proposed research more process-oriented. Sometimes what students have gained (e.g. becoming more confident, using more learning strategies) may not be reflected in the learning outcome.
Btw, I am wondering how we should deal with ‘effectiveness’ and ‘efficiency’ in this research. Effectiveness means ‘doing the right thing’, whereas efficiency means ‘doing the thing right’. I think learners may really not do the right thing all the time when using ICT (i.e. not effective / there is off-task behaviour such as not talking about the writing topic but other topics), yet it is possible that it may enhance students’ social presence or sense of belonging and thus eventually make the students even more effective and then more efficient. IT-enhanced learning has been criticized by many as creating a socially-isolated environment and thus reducing learning motivation and hindering knowledge construction. The aforementioned ineffectiveness may actually (and sarcastically) be a possible solution for the problem.