Week 2: Discussion questions
1)Which visual elements do you think are important for your learners?
colorful pictures & images
tables & graphic organizers & flow charts
2)What are your thoughts about the future of textbooks?
I agree with the idea that they will be more prevalent.In my institution we are using a coursebook supplemented by an itool and most days I teach with the itool without referring to the printed book (even though I am a traditional reader who adore the touch and smell of paper :)) But the itool eases my life in the class extraordinarily- no more file opennigs to search for a track, just one click for an answer key or scripts) I believe in the near future students will be buying those itools but not the books. Once in my classroom, a student had forgotten to bring one of his books that day, he just took the picture of certain pages from his friend's book with his smart phone and read from his phone and did all the task.Nothing is impossible for them :) I couldn't even get angry for his irresponsibility as he was that creative :) lol
3)How do you believe digital textbooks should be designed to best match learner's needs?
I believe everyone can benefit a lot from etextbooks if they ......
*are user friendly (not all the learners are digital natives)
*have simple icons to lead through the pages
*have direct links to appropriate websites (be it an online dictionary, wikipedia or any relevant website)
*direct links to audio/ audio-visual materials (difficult to search through a huge list of tracks)
*downloadable
*have interactive exercises for self-study
*enable students to communicate with the instructor via instant messaging or emailing
*allow file sharing (for writing/speaking assignments) and feedback
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