Within the field of instructed second language acquisition, there has been an increase in the amount of research reporting on task‐based language teaching (TBLT; Kim, ; Van den Branden, ). The pervasive use of technology has prompted researchers to examine the potential synergies between TBLT and technology‐mediated teaching (González‐Lloret & Ortega, ; Ziegler, ). The present study examines the perception of 20 learners of English as a second language toward the use of tasks across two modes: a traditional paper‐mediated (PM) information gap task and a technology‐mediated (TM) information gap task. For the PM task, learners used paper resources and worked individually to find information about three colleges, whereas for the technology‐mediated TM task learners turned to the computer to accomplish this procedure. Participants then completed a collaborative information exchange task. To measure their attitudes toward the tasks, the researchers had the learners answer questionnaires following the completion of each task, which included Likert‐type scale items and open‐ended questions. Findings suggest that a majority of the learners benefited from completing a TM information gap task; however, some minor concerns were raised by the learners. Pedagogical implications for a weak form of technology‐mediated TBLT are discussed.