Hannah's Fifth Week of the Webskills Course

The half of the course has been almost finished. Now, my research on the final project seems to be narrowing down to the two main points. One is how to narrow the educational gap between the poor and rich with the help of using technologies. And the other is how to ensure scoring reliability for speaking and writing assessment since it is the time when the National English Ability Test strongly focusing on enhancing Korean students’ communicative competence in English is about to be implemented in Korea. Now these two things are my biggest concern in terms of developing and planning smart educational contents for the classroom usage.

In this era of Smart Learning, how we can best help teachers and students to learn English through technologies and Internet tools like Rubistar, I was very impressed after trying it. What additional skills do teachers need to deal with students who are proficient in smart media. Many people are concerned about students immersed in or even addicted to smart media and exposed to so-called “Internet Pollution”. However, in this era of multimedia, I believe using technologies for foreign language teaching and learning seems to be inevitable and necessary at the same time. So the question arises how to make the best use of multi-media or new technologies?  I hope I will be able to answer the question as this course is coming to an end by sharing and exchanging great ideas and experiences with the class.