Tam
I am Tam. I am a teacher librarian. I will retire in September. I hope I will learn how to swim and ride bicycle before 50 years old. And my furure goal is to travel around the world.
Fiona
My name is Fiona. I teach Vocational English at IVE(ST). I enrol this course because I would like to learn how to integrate ICT into teaching and curriculum development.
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My name is Vivian. I am a primary school teacher. I teach English and Computer Studies. I take this course because I need to intergrate IT in my teaching.
Stella's introduction
My name is Stella Im. I work as a teacher in a primary school. I take this course hoping that the completion of the degree will help me manage the IT department for my school. I enjoy reading, filming, watching TV, listening music and travelling with lot of money.
3 comments:
A very clear and good summary of the study. A few more points may be raised here:
Re: What procedures did the experimenter use for the study?
Would be good if some more background info can be provided here. The study covers literature review on the techniques to aid and improve children’ reading skills, such as the writings by Reinking (1987), Ambrose (1991), Torgessen (1986), Cain and Bryant (2003) were discussed and previous research such as Greenlee-Moore and Smith”s (1996) US study was examined in this study.
This study also attempts to address some of the shortcomings of previous research and find the appropriate ways of measure the learning gains which involve variables and devising reliable tests for concepts that are difficult to define.
Re: Introduction of study
It will be clearer if the ppt will also tell us in what kinds of medium the storybooks were, i.e. two different storybooks were used, the first book was in electronic version with an online dictionary and a printed version with a separate printed dictionary. The second book was in electronic version with or without narration and in printed version.
Re: Major conclusion
The analysis also showed that there was a significantly greater usage of the electronic dictionary compared with that of the printed dictionary. But the dictionary usage did not produce a significant increase in the comprehension scores. On the other hand, narration benefited the children’s ability to both retrieve information directly and to make inferences form the text.
Furthermore, the children generally took longer to read an electronic version than a printed version. However, there was no significant difference in the children’s comprehension scores.
Finally, this study pointed out the recent research entitled “Interactive leaning fails reading test” (Henry & Jones, 2006), criticizing that research failed to differentiate between different types of electronic books and only categorize those electronic books of more “edutainment” type may motive children to read. This kind of saying will limit the use of a valuable resource for both teaching and learning.
irene
from the group "four seasons"
The structure is really clear. Answer the questions step by step. It would be more vivid if you add some images or veidos in it.
This should be an experimental research instead.
(just copying what I've said in the class :P)
But this is an interesting research, I would like to read it when I have time. Thank you.
By Andrew, Infocycle group
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