Saturday, July 12, 2008

What to expect from technology...

1. How technology is going to affect how your students are going to be learning

From my very own point of view, i think technology will give super-extra access to students, without considering the age. They will no longer depends on teachers and discussions in the classroom. Students are free to find almost anything via the net (one of the most familiar technology nowadays), either educational or non-educational, 24/7. One day, it is not impossible if we find that there are a big gaps on students performance in education. Why did i said so? I do believe if students are given freedom to learn on their own, they will show different achievement, all depends on their own efforts towards self-learning. Vice versa, we could also see an increasing number of those who success in education sector as they gain more informations in the net. After all, it is not fully depends on how much the students use the net, but how they use the informations in the net to help them in their learning.
Besides, all the gadgets that are prepared by educational institutions will really makes the learning process less boring and meaningless. The present of those stuffs would really motivate students, not only young learners but also adult learners, in improving themselves in terms of education achievement. Until now, I could only see the advantages of these gadgets, and hope no serious impacts will occur in the future as the technology become more advanced.
The most important thing to be considered as dealing with the technology is a good skill of monitoring the learners.As for now, what we can do is... only wait and see, what will happen as time goes by... hoping that more advantages will be gain from the technology
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2. How you as a teacher will be learning

'Teachers' are also 'students', in their own way. So, there are not so much different with other learners except for their maturity and priority, perhaps. I could say that the technology will helps teachers in terms of preparing the teaching aids and give them more ideas on constructing more fun activities for their students, as what we already know. I could say teachers are providing, not really learning in this case. Agree?
Actually, I am not sure whether the technology will help or burden the teachers, as they compete with each other to provide useful and interesting material. Sure it is not a burden for the techno freaks. How about the technophobia? This is when the term 'learning' applied. Considering this situation, do teachers successful in guiding their students while they themselves are still learning...?

4 comments:

Miss Agu said...

wow..! cant believe u r following the format to writing this blog.

jz drop by to leave my opinion:

independent learners are what needed in schools or in any other educational institutions right now. and thanx to techno and wireless and that techno thingy things- learning has become a lot easier nowadays. fun, impressive and more towards 2ways interactive kind of learning- so much differ from the last time. i guess kids nowadays have become luckier and luckier. dont u think so?

Encik Syazwan said...

hye jez! its time for a CHANGE rite? d platform is already thr(technology)..y dun we use it? bck den hw i wish i could hv d say to wut n hw i was about to learn. hw i wish i could tell my teachers dat i could learn best dis way..x dat way..wif technology..we r blessed wif lots of possible alternatives to add more colours..to spruce up d ways of learning of our children. dey r given options to hw dey r going to learn.

Kyrel Biomehanika said...

hhuhu..technology had a great impact on u..if things make our life easier..why dont we make a full use of it?rite hun?

Anonymous said...

You write very well.