Is Digital Material for Foreign Language Teaching Interactive Enough?

Špela Grum
spela.drmota@gmail.com
ŠCL, Srednja lesarska šola

Povzetek

Kot navdušena uporabnica i-table sem z velikim pričakovanjem začela uporabljati digitalno gradivo dobro poznanega učbenika, ki ga v slovenskih srednjih šolah uporabljamo za učenje angleščine. Zanimalo me je, ali je omenjeno gradivo res tako interaktivno, kot obljubljajo avtorji, ali gre zgolj za komercialno potezo in željo po dodatnem zaslužku. Po večmesečni uporabi sem pod drobnogled postavila različne tipe nalog, za katere avtorji trdijo, da povečujejo aktivnost dijakov pri pouku. Izpostavila sem prednosti in slabosti digitalnega gradiva glede na svoje izkušnje v razredu in ocenila njegovo didaktično vrednost.

Interaktivnost digitalnega gradiva sem še primerjala s konkurenčnim in lastnim avtorskim gradivom, narejenim s programsko opremo ene izmed i-tabel, ki sem ga pripravila za izboljšanje pouka.

Ključne besede: digitalno gradivo, interaktiven pouk, i-tabla.

Abstract

As an eager user of an interactive whiteboard (IWB), I started using digital material of a well-known textbook with great expectations. This textbook is used in Slovene secondary schools for teaching English as a foreign language. I really wondered if this resource is as interactive as its authors promise, or is it just a commercial move, striving for a financial profit. After using this digital material for several months, I decided to take a detailed look at various types of exercises for which the authors claim they raise the students' activity in class. I have pointed out the advantages and disadvantages of this digital material according to my experiences in the class and estimated its didactic value.

The interactivity of this digital material is compared to its competition and my own material which I make to improve my lessons and was made with the software of one of the IWBs.

Key words:. digital material, interactive lesson, interactive whiteboard