I believe that everyone has had some experience with online assignments that are assigned by teachers via E-Learning portals. Right?
Today, I will be blogging about whether online assignments are helpful to us or not and my opinions on that.
In my Primary school days (which was just last year, haha), we were assigned online assignments/quizzes via the online LEAD learning portal. These assignments were of the practices sort, just either for our extra knowledge or E-learning day (apart from the lessons already in the portal).
So, when I was doing my language practices, such as English or Chinese cloze passages, (the kind where you have to fill in the blank with a suitable word) I was quite confident of my answers before hitting the 'Submit' button. However, to my horror, I found out that my mark was only JUST enough to pass! What happened, you may ask. Well, if I'm not wrong, according to my teachers, they only uploaded ONE or TWO answers and so the rest were, you guessed it, unaccepted. But some of my incorrect answers were actually synonymous with the answers accepted.
I was furious and talked to my teacher about this. She too, said that those exercises were not very accurate in terms of accepting answers. So this brings me back to my point.
My argument is that teachers TEACHING (not hinting anything) and marking students' work would be more beneficial in our learning. This will teach us that many answers can be accepted and will not limit us to particular answers. We will have a bigger vocabulary and would be able to use a wider range of words, enabling us to learn from one another. For me, I am able to learn better if a teacher teaches me face to face. Sometimes, the "human approach" may be better than learning via technology. But perhaps, in the next 10 years down the road, computers may be even more advanced than it already is today. Technology may even be used to replace teachers! What would that be like? What do YOU think? :)
What Jean has mentioned is very true indeed! Sometimes, e-learning restricts us to only the model answer! However, e-learning saves paper which is made of trees! Thus, I think that we can still use e-learning but only for MCQ questions or other question which only have 1 answer.
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