Effectiveness of the integration of ICT tools and activities to foster awareness as the first stage to reach learning autonomy.
The article talks about a method of teaching that mention the importance of allow students to make their own decisions for their learning. The article focus in two surveys that were administered to a group of students. One survey requires students to report the things they find useful, things they like the best and suggestions they have for the instructor. The second survey followed a semi structured format designed to specifically address the multidisiplinary experience. At the end students were asked to write a reflection to sum up about what the Project meant to them. Also, in the surveys they made, students considered some activities useful for their learning.
This article mentions about students that learn by making invetigations and also decisions by their own; I think that the learning process that they have is more meaningful for students. If they are responsables in what they are doing to learn a language, in this way they will find the knowledge that they are acquiring more fun or interesting because they have the opportunity to get information using technological tools.
furthermore, when the students have the opportunity to use technology for information to learn a new language they are more aware of the process of the learning they are having because they can see the progress in the knowledge they are having.
Also, the experiences they have to learn a language are differents because they can enjoy the learning when they make it dynamic. As we know the process that a teacher use is most of the time to receive information and sometimes students do not have the chance to look of use other materials to be better in their skills.
Moreover, it is important to know that teachers play an important role when students use this methodology. Teachers are the guide for students to provide information to use this method to have a better learning.
To sum up, students need to have the opportunity to make independent practice to develop the metacognitive process to learn a language using ICT tools. Using this tools or methodology students are going to have a positive effect on their performance.
I agree that teachers should guide students as you said "providing information to use this method to have a better learning." I consider that teachers should not only guide students, but also encourage and motivate them because each learner needs to find their own way to input the information (in this case a new language); there are some students that need a little motivational push to realize that they need to self-aware their weaknesses. This metacognition methodology may impact different on those students lacking confidence that will find in the moderator (teacher) the assurance or approval they need to become independent eventually.
ResponderEliminarHi Dalila!
ResponderEliminarI agree with your opinion, I truly believe that us as teacher should give our student a little bit of freedom so they can grow as individual but definitely we need to provide them with the guidelines so they can make an excellent work. Computers are a really good tool at the moment of learning a new language and if we teach them the right way to use them students will have an awesome time learning and being independent.