Reflection of day 5 (1 June 2012)

1. Reflect what you learned in class

Today, I learnt a new approach in student’s performance appraisal. This approach is different from what I have practiced before. Traditionally, student’s performance is assessed by examination, quizzes and exercises.  This new approach evaluates student performance from multiple dimensions.

The most interesting for me is in this new approach, we can use “ill-defined” performance appraisal. This ill-defined method provides a huge room for student innovation in their works – thus, students are not confined by the list of instructions on their works. However, in my class case, if I use this method, the students may have a “shock” and don’t know what to do. They will ask a lot of questions to ensure that their works are clearly defined! Nevertheless, I personally believe ill-defined method is a good method.

Today, I was working on my Prezi presentation, but in the middle of my work, the internet connection is not stable. My works were discontinues for many time! Indeed, some slides that I worked on are disappeared and this makes me sad (until now). This shows that internet tools are useful. However, we need to ensure that our internet connection is supportive!

2. 這樣的訓練課程, 有關培養反思科技運用在教學的能力,你認為自己到什麼程度?

(1-無,      2,      3,       4,       5,       6,      7-最大程度)

Answer: 6

This five day intensive course has introduced to me a lot of internet tools which are useful and facilitate student learning and teaching process. The tools open my eyes. Before this, I always believe no free lunch, but to my surprise, all these useful tools are free! What a beautiful life in internet!

While I am learning to use the tools, I always think on how to use these tools in my teaching of mathematics knowledge to students.