The project mentioned was about developing a courseware with multimedia. It was an old project (implementated in 1991) when Windows 3.1 was still common. At that time, multimedia or even computer was not popular. The author/researcher put a lot of time and labor in developing the courseware. In addition to the film, background information, vocabulary, online help, instruction and exericses were provided. The author saw the projecct as an individualized instruction system which can be used for cooperative learning. He also claimed that the project was not only a stand alone activity outside the regular classroom activities but can be intergrated into classrooms. However, I wonder whether it is practical to intergrate a whole film into classrooms.
When I was a secondary student, I remembered that my English teacher played a film to us. I forgot the name of that film. It was about aeroplanes and airport. I remembered that the main characters fell asleep on a plane. After they woke up, they arrived at an airport but there're no one there. The airport was attracked by some strange insects and the characters tried their best to go back to the real world. It took a long time for us to finish the film. We spent a week watching the film. It seemed to me that my teacher was trying to teach language with the film but I can't remember what he taught. I can remember the film but I can't remember what I learn. So is it sucessful or not?
Recently, when I was teaching Present Perfect Tense to my Primary 5 class. I played a short movie to them. It is a short subject of a recent teleplay. I used the movie to arouse my students' motivation. I asked them to listen to what Kevin Cheng said and tried to write the sentence (Have you seen this girl before?) from memory. They were excited to do this.
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I think it's good to use audio or video to arounse students' interest. especially the programs that they like.
Yet, we may have to be very familiar with different programmes. Otherwise, it's quite hard for us to choose!
Thanks for sharing these thoughts and the lesson idea. Do you have any suggestions about how to find materials that you feel your students will be interested in? To what extent do you think that your students can take responsibility for this?
I watched that teleplay so I knew that there's somethings suitable and interested my students.
I don't think my primary school students can't take ersponsibility for this, since they're too young.
I think you should trust your feelings about your students, though I do wonder whether they are really too young, so let me rephrase the question:
Would they be too young to tell you about the kinds of things they like? Too young to find examples of the things they like? If so, is that because of language barriers, cultural barriers or technology access/literacy?
I just saw my five year-old locate a web site full of spiderman games, using Google. No-one taught her to do this as far as I know, but she is definitely capable of knowing what she wants and locating it on the web. Quite a surprise for me: it's time for me to start worrying about cyber safety!
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