Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Individual Research Plan (So Pui Kwan Fiona 2003911822)
Title
A study on the implementation of ICT for teaching and learning in the English modules for Higher Diploma students
Research Question
What technology is available in the English modules?
What are the effect of the implementation of the use if ICT.
Participants
Higher Diploma students taking the English module
Teachers
Why is this important topic to study
The use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is increasing dramatically in teaching and learning. It makes great influence on the teaching pedagogy.
The development of Information and Communication Technology is linked to the course planning, assessment scheme and delivery of teaching and learning materials.
The study aims to evaluate the use of Information and Communication Technology in the English modules offered to Higher Diploma students, and make recommendations for future development accordingly.
How will data be collected and analyzed
The data of this case study will be collected and analyzed through the following:
Questionnaire
Interview
Observation
A study on the implementation of ICT for teaching and learning in the English modules for Higher Diploma students
Research Question
What technology is available in the English modules?
What are the effect of the implementation of the use if ICT.
Participants
Higher Diploma students taking the English module
Teachers
Why is this important topic to study
The use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is increasing dramatically in teaching and learning. It makes great influence on the teaching pedagogy.
The development of Information and Communication Technology is linked to the course planning, assessment scheme and delivery of teaching and learning materials.
The study aims to evaluate the use of Information and Communication Technology in the English modules offered to Higher Diploma students, and make recommendations for future development accordingly.
How will data be collected and analyzed
The data of this case study will be collected and analyzed through the following:
Questionnaire
Interview
Observation
Sunday, July 13, 2008
Individual Research Plan - Stella IM Ka Yin
MITE 6025 Methods of Research and Enquiry (IM Ka Yin, Stella)
Title
A study of students’ IT skills related to their reading ability.
Research Question
Explore students’ habit of using IT in their daily life.
How IT effect reading their reading ability?
Study participants
All primary 4 students in researcher’s school. (60 people)
They are selected because most of them have their own cell phone and they are able to use IT in their daily life. Also, their reading ability is still developing.
Why is this important topic to study?
I choose this topic because as we all know EDB is promoting to use IT to help in learning for these years, but some days ago, I read a news which shown only 24% of primary 4 students meet the basic Chinese reading skill requirement. The reason is students always use informal language to communicate with their friends using MSN or SMS. I just wonder is the technology helping for teaching?
Also, PowerPoint, graphic, animation are mostly used by teacher in their lesson. These IT tools usually don’t have many words but pictures. (a picture means thousand words) The picture definitely should help the students to know the concept of the topic easily, but they read less word and their language skill cannot be improved.
For the reasons above, I am planning for this research project since I believe that IT can help in teaching. The problem is how to use IT in teaching. I would like to find out this question in order to keep education in a correct direction.
How will data be collected and analyzed
I choose Chinese language to be exanimate subject since children are learning Chinese in lesson but they are using Cantonese in technology world. Also, these two languages are so similar. Students are easily to get confuse.
I select two class. Each class will use different teaching tools in their lesson. One will use IT graphic tools and the other use non graphic tools, for example blackboard.
In each class, the students will be separate into groups. One group is good at using informal language all the time, especially when they are using MSN and SMS. The other group can only use formal language.
The data this research will uses are the following:
Chinese term test result.
The speed of typing a Chinese speech.
Students will listen to a speech and they need to use MSN to
type the message in the speech. The time spend will be recorded.
Title
A study of students’ IT skills related to their reading ability.
Research Question
Explore students’ habit of using IT in their daily life.
How IT effect reading their reading ability?
Study participants
All primary 4 students in researcher’s school. (60 people)
They are selected because most of them have their own cell phone and they are able to use IT in their daily life. Also, their reading ability is still developing.
Why is this important topic to study?
I choose this topic because as we all know EDB is promoting to use IT to help in learning for these years, but some days ago, I read a news which shown only 24% of primary 4 students meet the basic Chinese reading skill requirement. The reason is students always use informal language to communicate with their friends using MSN or SMS. I just wonder is the technology helping for teaching?
Also, PowerPoint, graphic, animation are mostly used by teacher in their lesson. These IT tools usually don’t have many words but pictures. (a picture means thousand words) The picture definitely should help the students to know the concept of the topic easily, but they read less word and their language skill cannot be improved.
For the reasons above, I am planning for this research project since I believe that IT can help in teaching. The problem is how to use IT in teaching. I would like to find out this question in order to keep education in a correct direction.
How will data be collected and analyzed
I choose Chinese language to be exanimate subject since children are learning Chinese in lesson but they are using Cantonese in technology world. Also, these two languages are so similar. Students are easily to get confuse.
I select two class. Each class will use different teaching tools in their lesson. One will use IT graphic tools and the other use non graphic tools, for example blackboard.
In each class, the students will be separate into groups. One group is good at using informal language all the time, especially when they are using MSN and SMS. The other group can only use formal language.
The data this research will uses are the following:
Chinese term test result.
The speed of typing a Chinese speech.
Students will listen to a speech and they need to use MSN to
type the message in the speech. The time spend will be recorded.
Iindividual Research Plan - Text version
Hi all,
I posted my ppt here days ago but I found that it takes quite a long time to wait for the ppt so I just post the text version here again.
(Vivian Leung Pui Shan)
Title
A Study of Using E-learning Platform in English Language Classrooms in Hong Kong Primary Schools
Research Question
Does the e-learning platform affect the English ability of primary school students?
Samples and Sampling Method
Two primary four classes of researcher’s school will be chosen. They are chosen since they will be taught by the same teacher in the coming school year. The students in these two classes have the best academic result in the form.
Why is this important topic to study?
- It allows the primary school teacher to make use of the effective methods in enhancing the English ability of students.
- Teachers can design or use the best teaching materials in their teaching of English
- It gives a direction to the other studies so that more representative researches and objectives results can be found in the future which help teaching and learning of English in primary schools.
- It gives ideas to the publishers or the suppliers in designing up-to-dated teaching materials in order to assist students’ learning in English.
How will data be collected and analyzed?
- An experimental design will be carried out.
- A pilot study will be carried out (Nov 2008) so problems can be found and amended.
- The study will be conducted from Jan to Jul.
- The result of first term English exam will be recorded as pre-test scores.
- Teacher use didactic teaching (chalk and talk) in class 4A and e-learning platform in class 4B to teach English in second term.
- The result of second term English exam will be recorded as post-test scores.
- T-test will be introduced to analyse the data collected.
- A grid will be used to record the data
I posted my ppt here days ago but I found that it takes quite a long time to wait for the ppt so I just post the text version here again.
(Vivian Leung Pui Shan)
Title
A Study of Using E-learning Platform in English Language Classrooms in Hong Kong Primary Schools
Research Question
Does the e-learning platform affect the English ability of primary school students?
Samples and Sampling Method
Two primary four classes of researcher’s school will be chosen. They are chosen since they will be taught by the same teacher in the coming school year. The students in these two classes have the best academic result in the form.
Why is this important topic to study?
- It allows the primary school teacher to make use of the effective methods in enhancing the English ability of students.
- Teachers can design or use the best teaching materials in their teaching of English
- It gives a direction to the other studies so that more representative researches and objectives results can be found in the future which help teaching and learning of English in primary schools.
- It gives ideas to the publishers or the suppliers in designing up-to-dated teaching materials in order to assist students’ learning in English.
How will data be collected and analyzed?
- An experimental design will be carried out.
- A pilot study will be carried out (Nov 2008) so problems can be found and amended.
- The study will be conducted from Jan to Jul.
- The result of first term English exam will be recorded as pre-test scores.
- Teacher use didactic teaching (chalk and talk) in class 4A and e-learning platform in class 4B to teach English in second term.
- The result of second term English exam will be recorded as post-test scores.
- T-test will be introduced to analyse the data collected.
- A grid will be used to record the data
Friday, July 11, 2008
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Individual Research Plan
Here is my individual research plan. Please give me some comments. Thanks a lot! (Leung Pui Shan, Vivian)
Friday, July 4, 2008
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