Thursday, March 26, 2009

Feedbacks on my learning module

Let me just write the comments down while they are still fresh so that I could refer to them later.

I like Chun's question the most which is summarised as 'How do I justify - what is so unique about the learning module to be available online when students could actually print them out and do the activities on papers'. I like her way of thinking since she looks at the possible flaw(black hat thinking). My response to her was when the lesson is done in a digital environment, students will be able to get immediate feedback. Besides, learning could still be carried out outside the class.

Then Lim brought up the question on moderation. Will the moderator ask the students to do the activities in sequence? Could the students jump to the next activity without doing the previous one? Dr Tee added, how are we going to give feedback immediately when it involves around 40 students. True, 6 hats time 3 activities each is 18. 18 activities times 40 students, would the moderator be able to monitor and give prompt feedbacks to 720 posts.

When I use lesson function on Moodle, students would not be able to see each other's answers. The drawback is students won't be able see what others have posted and not able to do peer correction. After discussing with Iza and listening to input from Lim, I think we are going to change activites 1 and 2 to objective types of activity where the feedback would be immediate and students would know their score. We would leave activity 3 in a subjective format. Probably we will use wiki function so that students could do peer correction within the group before they submit their response to the moderator. Or we will design all the activities to be objective format and let the assessment part be in an essay format.

Many thinks that the page is too long for the students to scroll down. Probably a different platform could be used. When I showed them the website we prepared on freewebs and the prototype that Iza had worked on PPT, they like the one on freewebs better since the layout is website like and students will be more motivated to explore. We might want to change our target learners. Instead of using form 5 students as target learners, we are thinking of using our classmates in the DE class to be our clients since the Moodle feature is more suitable to adult learners.

I remember Dr Tee has asked us a question that forced me and Iza to give it a thought but I can't remember. He asked us to give a thought about it and come up with possible solution. I'll continue writing once I am able to recall what it was.

1 comment:

  1. What a great summary of the discussion.

    Sorry, since I asked a bunch of questions, I don't quite remember what you are referring to in the last paragraph. :-) Were you able to recall?

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