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Monday, March 8, 2010
Monday, March 1, 2010
Response to Dr Hafner's post on the hotpotatoes
The hotpotatoes can be useful but we may get burned if it is too hot.
As a quiz-creating tool, the hotpotatoes is very user-friendly. Teachers do not need to be an IT expert to apply it. It is less time-consuming but more interesting since online multi-mode texts such as audio-visual materials can modified and integrated. In a way, the hotpotatoes makes teaching environmentally friendly, too, since paper can be saved by using e-learning materials. It is convenient for students, too. They can seek help online if they have difficulty while hints can be set with the hotpotatoes for the students who get the wrong answers so that students can get immediate feedback. Moreover, different quizzes can be presented in a tidy and systematic way so that students do not have to spend time filing the weeksheets and risk losing them. I think the hotpotatoes acts as great extended self-learning materials. The online quizzes serve as a good source of daily marks. But we can’t set heavy weighting because learners can cheat with the convenience of internet.
Although the hotpotatoes can assist classroom teaching, it is not perfect. I agree with Clair that most of the quizzes are drilling exercises, a type of behaviorist CALL. The exercises created by the hotpotatoes is not so interactive and authentic. Teachers should be not stuff learners with large amounts of online quizzes just for the sake of being technology-oriented. In fact, it goes back to the same view point that I have learned from the article by Mark Warschauer, all the technologies are not important in themselves but the way they are used to help with student-centred collaborative language teaching and learning.
As a quiz-creating tool, the hotpotatoes is very user-friendly. Teachers do not need to be an IT expert to apply it. It is less time-consuming but more interesting since online multi-mode texts such as audio-visual materials can modified and integrated. In a way, the hotpotatoes makes teaching environmentally friendly, too, since paper can be saved by using e-learning materials. It is convenient for students, too. They can seek help online if they have difficulty while hints can be set with the hotpotatoes for the students who get the wrong answers so that students can get immediate feedback. Moreover, different quizzes can be presented in a tidy and systematic way so that students do not have to spend time filing the weeksheets and risk losing them. I think the hotpotatoes acts as great extended self-learning materials. The online quizzes serve as a good source of daily marks. But we can’t set heavy weighting because learners can cheat with the convenience of internet.
Although the hotpotatoes can assist classroom teaching, it is not perfect. I agree with Clair that most of the quizzes are drilling exercises, a type of behaviorist CALL. The exercises created by the hotpotatoes is not so interactive and authentic. Teachers should be not stuff learners with large amounts of online quizzes just for the sake of being technology-oriented. In fact, it goes back to the same view point that I have learned from the article by Mark Warschauer, all the technologies are not important in themselves but the way they are used to help with student-centred collaborative language teaching and learning.
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