- What does your user value as a learner? Examples: Your student might value incorporating art into projects, or they might value using technology. What are some complaints that they currently have about their classroom experience?
- Does your user have any ideas or preconceptions about the content you've chosen? Examples: You might find out that your student feels intimidated when asked to generate several ideas in response to a assignment prompt.
- What about opportunities and constraints? Examples: What is your student's reading level? Does the classroom have lab equipment? Is it a small class of students or a large one? Does every student have a laptop or tablet device?
- four females (one class)
- three males (other class)
BRAINSTORMING - INTERVIEW QUESTIONS
Learning English
Learning English
- What makes learning English in the classroom most difficult?
- What do you constantly struggle with when learning English?
- What mode of english is most difficult - reading, writing, listening, speaking
- What do you do to study outside of class
- What do you wish you had more of / less of to help you study and improve your English
The lesson plan concept
- What was your reaction the first time you saw the digital lesson plan
- How often do you use it
- When do you use it outside of class
- Where do you use it outside of class - on phone .. on computer .. with friends .. with family?
- Why do you use it .. most of the time
- What is most useful about it
- What do you wish could be there but isn’t
The design format
- Is it clear
- What do you like or appreciate about it
- What could be done to make it clearer to you
- How could it be improved to help you with your studies
- Links to other resources
The content
Links to attendance, assessment sheets, listening resources
- How often do you use them
- How useful are they
- What.. do you wish could be there but isn’t
INTERVIEW PROCESS - RESPONSES
- Focus group with 4 female students in one of my classes - 19 April 2017
- What do you wish you had more of / less of to help you study and improve your English
- Practice with Vocabulary word forms - these are difficult to learn / know
- Writing - so many elements to do at the same time
- Read and speak more
- Review the grammar more often
- Include exercises .. and then links to answers (self directed studies)
- What was your reaction the first time you saw the digital lesson plan
- At first we did not understand what it means or what it was used for
- Completely new to them
- Good idea
- Helps remind us of what we do or did in class
- When do you use it outside of class
- Yes
- How? To refer to it for (Study Skills / Research) Project
- reminds us of what we need to do (many details) & how
- practice new vocabulary
- Using it mostly on the phone (during and outside of class)
- Sometimes on computer
- Can be used on the phone (no hesitation in response)
- Often copying the link(s) and sending / sharing them with friends in other classes (unsolicited response)
- Which parts of the digital lesson plan do you use the most?
- Announcements (immediate response, without hesitation)
- What do we need to do today
- What might we forget to do .. and it reminds us
- Writing class
- References to grammar
- Request for more
- Examples
- Rules
- Is there anything else that you would like to see there but is not there now?
- links to practice exercises
- Video
- Could be used to introduce a reading / writing topic
- Games between boys and girls
- Competition (yet cultural issues here; needs clarification)
- With technology “we” can work in groups (needs to be clarified - examples .. past experience of the girls? But I sense it refers to them being divided into groups based on gender (permissable)
Overall tone of students?
- Very positive, very supportive
- Realized once again of the importance of creating a supportive, non threatening environment, that encourages students to open up. Quality of feedback reflects this.
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