Wednesday, April 25th 2018.
WEEK: 14
RANK: 2
WEEK: 14
RANK: 2
Based on the article "How to Use Technology to Provide Feedback" by Russel Stannard.
Different Ways to Check Assignments.
After reading the article I have noticed how easy can be to check or to provide feeback with the use of technology. How come? Well, in this case the author is mentioning some ideas of how make use of technology whenever you want to give feedback to your students. I have always thought that screen captures are a good idea. In the case students have given a presentation about a specific topic, Russel Stannard says that you can write down ideas on a Word file, and then just add your voice explaining everything you have written. Sometimes is better oral explanations than a written one. Besides, something that really called my attention is the quote "It can make the feedback very personal, which is something that is frequently mentioned in the feedback from students"(Russel,2015). The most important part I think is "very personal" so probably if you are teaching a virtual subject(this means that you are not going to see your students very often) you can always provide the feedback with a video. This may create a better relationship between you and your students. They can feel more confident whenever they want to get in touch with you. Also, they need to know in which topics they are having problems, mistakes, etc. To conclude this weekly log, I think screen capture for feedback is versatile, it will not take a lot of time like writing comments about an assignment or a presentation. I believe in the near future technological feedback will become more famous in our ESL classrooms.In my opinion, I think is not a complicated way to provide feedback, it is easier and better to bond teacher-student.
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ResponderEliminarHello Pamela, I agree with you! The ideas that the author mentioned in the article are useful because you can provide feedback to your students in a form where they understand better the things, for example, in the case of writing a paragraph, as you said the teacher can record her or his voice in order to explain better the things that he or she point out about the paragraph, for example, the use of commas, the grammar or the spelling. The use of the screen of video or audio allows that between teacher and students create a connection in which the students understand better the explanations, and the teachers create a confidence with their students allowing an excellent communication.
ResponderEliminarHello Pamela, I agree with you. I really like the idea to make "very personal" the feedback because for students will be easier to understand what they made wrong or in which items they need to improve. Also, as you said oral explanations are better, and we can use this tool in different types of feedback, as Hilda said in writing paragraph, presentations, essays, and so on. Besides, not every students have the resources to watch the feedback, perhaps they don´t have computers or smartphones, so we have to see in what kind of environment we can apply this tool.
ResponderEliminarGreat job!