Even if this week tried to squeeze and trouble me a lot, I could manage to read the articles and post for the discussions, in the meantime, design a lesson for one-computer classroom. What I found is CALL and learner autonomy are interrelated. And the most plausible point to me is 'prepare children to learn rather than teaching them'. It is what I have understood this week.
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| Children observing their autonomy in the basketball court |
Learner autonomy is capacity for detachment, critical reflection, decision-making, and independent action' (Little, 1991: 4). Our job is to assist the children to have such capacity. It is possible through CALL. And I am really interested to use it different ways.
Finally I could design a lesson for one computer classroom. It is to enhance their listening skill at the same time to develop vocabulary. I made it different than the usual way of conducting listening activity. In this activity, they are engaging tremendously themselves. They peer assess their answers and use computer for the inference of the answer. It seems interesting to me. Let me check how far it works.
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Hi Sagun,
ReplyDeleteYour reflection is really true! It´s about preparing them to learn rather than teaching. Although it is not easy. We have different students that think differently. So, we should be prepared to what it is to handle too many individuals into having independent thinking and decision making to learn.
Regards,
Yohimar
Hello Yohimar
DeleteOf course, it is certainly difficult to handle students who are naturally different and it is what the challenge that we need to confront as a teacher. Multiple intelligence is another fact we need to consider and yes, since we are different we can act differently to handle this issue.
sagun
Hi Sagun.
ReplyDeleteI like your photos and your reflection, and I'm agree if we can act differently with student with different potencialities and mood, emotions amd affection, as teaches we are really smart to get a final goal using teaching strategies in class and focus on each individual to develop their own learner autonomy, in their reakl kife and their learning process.
Yohimar commented a real thruth "it is not an easy labor" but we have the nucleus to encourage the change...
Regards
Orquidia
Thanks Orquidia for your kind words. Indeed you are right in saying we have the nucleus to encourage change.
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