The interactive videodisc courseware sounds very useful to English learners, as visual support is always a good aid to wearker students. From the article, the author mentioned something about "Viewing of the film", it looks very interesting and useful to secondary 4 and 5 students as in their new HKCEE syllabus, they are required to read some books and watch some movies as a kind of assessment which is based on the school judgement--School based Assessment (SBA). To most of the students they may not be able to watch the movie with no understanding problem. The aim of watching movies is also to learn English. I guess this can help students, especially those weaker ones. As their marks will be sent to the Exam Authority which will affect their final results (starting from 2008), so with the help of such software, maybe students can understand better about the choosen material and give better and more insightful ideas during the discussion.
I know that maybe such kind of function is not the most advanced one at the moment. But if we, languange teachers, have to equip ourselves with the most up-to-the-minute knowledge, we will be exhausted. To me, enough is good, we are not going to explore new technologies to change the whole world or to reform our teaching methodologies. I'm sorry that I'm not so enthusiastic in carrying out changes on how to teach in the best way with IT, sometimes we are restricted by our syllabus and policies; and most importantly, I am not a revolutionary.
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Hi Sherlock,
Thanks for the reflection. It seems to me that new technologies pose fundamental challenges to the way we go about education - especially if we consider that our students are adopting new technologies in ways that are completely foreign to many of us.
Your comment reminds me of a post I read a while ago, which won't change your mind but could offer another perspective.
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