Wednesday, April 27 2016

Week 14: Providing feedback using technology.

Rate: 5

Susana Constanza

The short reading for this final week was really interesting. I felt interested to know more about this topic. Firstly, I consider that using technology to provide feedback is a challenge; teachers tend to give assessment in a traditional way. In another hand, it is useful instead of spend hours with each student. Suddenly, educators of a foreign language are not trained about how to use technology because in our country is not used massively and explored, but it allow me to think about the challenge that we have as a future teachers and to be open to technologies as a resource of the new education and how it would work in term of to provide a formative assessment and assessment for learning.

Second, screen cast is a term that sounds familiar, but in the area of CALL I didn’t notice, but I found interesting. It is a great idea because it break the barriers between teacher-student, student –teacher and is a new way to give feedback. At the beginning it can appear complicated, so in my own opinion is would  be complicated because we are not adapted to use those tools or software or in order cases teachers prefer  not use it because is a challenge for them , but if we have the training how to do it : Why we can’t use it?. I want to conclude saying that assessment is important for students, in this subject Instructional Technology we tend to receive it on line most of the time and I notice that it works very well. Now, it is a guide for me to apply in the future with my future students.