I followed Abdullah’s week 3 blog and selected his pros and cons about using computer assisted teaching-learning programs, I found it very interesting from my own perspective. Yes, Abdullah, I agree 100% with what you say in your post. Even though I have not been familiarized with high tech communicating tools, however, such technology can save precious time in obtaining speedy information from a great variety of sources, as well as the sending of it.
High technology can also cause drawbacks; for example, a group of students (level three of English – age 24) use to get Spanish printed matter for their English classes from the internet, they ask the computer to translate the Spanish sheets into English, the result is a very poor job, such English type is unintelligible; therefore, let me say that this is a constraint towards learning because the computer is not capable of competing with the human intelligence.
Hi Holguer,
ResponderEliminarYou have created a nice blog and you present very thoughtful ideas. Thanks.
It's sad that even adults insist on trying the easy way although the result is going to be unsatisfactory. What's your solution to encouraging people to try the hard-way which will yield better results for them?