MY REFLECTIONS ON WEEK 7

Hello Robert and Other Participants,

This week, we have gone through “Learner Autonomy” and “One-Computer Classroom”.

After reading the documents provided, and from my own experience as an in-service teacher, I will argue that learner autonomy is very important – even indispensable in a learning process. And this learner autonomy can be promoted through active practice on the part of the learner, and by the means of activities such as pair work and group work. These kinds of activities will enable students to acquire more confidence and knowledge through self and peer assessments.

In this same week, we were taught what Wallwisher is, and how to create a wall for instance.

Another aspect of what I did in Week 7 is that, on Thursday February 21, I resumed the implementation of my technology change after the four-day holiday that was granted to students. In my Grade 10 class, I did a lesson on “Making Suggestions”. At the end of the lesson in class, I gave students a follow-up activity related to “Making suggestions”. It had to be performed out of the class, on Nicenet, in its “Conferencing” section.

Since it was the very first time my students would perform such an activity with the Web, I decided to conduct a survey, after the students had finished doing the activity. The survey was about the use of the Web, and especially Nicenet. The “rubric” for the survey had three (3) “dimensions”, namely “Satisfied”, “Not Satisfied” and “No Opinion”. In the end, 68% of the students were satisfied, 7% were not satisfied, and 25% had no opinion.

To put it in a nutshell, the vast majority of the students were satisfied with the technology change that was brought in. Even some of the students came to me, and asked for the day the next activity would take place. I noticed a certain satisfaction on their part, and a challenge they were willing to take up in order to become computer literate for using Web materials.

Best regards,

Dagnogo