The future of teaching starts from introducing of
technology. As what I see from the video “
Educational Change Challenge” and “
The Future Starts Now-2012 edition”, the import of technology becomes a
trend in future teaching.
Every student can learn, but they learn differently. For a
long time, the greatest hurdle of education reform is that society does not
have a clear image of what school is for. People view school as a place where
children can learn things, however, how can school guarantee how much children
can learn or how educators mediate students? One thing inspires me in “ Educational Change Challenge” is that
“In education, if you don’t use technology for learning, you may lose relevant.
Educators must be relevant.” We, as future teachers, must take advantage of
technology in future teaching if we want to be a “relevant” teacher. We can use
computer to find materials, or we can use blog to connect with students after
class. It is not a simple way to conduct a new thing in teaching, but at least
we should try it and may it be useful in teaching.
“ The Future Starts
Now-2012 edition” reminds me of students who use smart phone in Chinese
class. This is quite a common thing happened in Chinese classroom because most of
them are trying hard to learn Chinese, and they encounter problems that they
need to figure out. For example, they use smart phone to check unknown words
they hear from the instructor or sometimes, they use it to google relevant
knowledge to the topic they discussed. The ICT (Information and Communication
Technology) should not ban during class time because our students need it and
they think it would help them to learn better. The problem is how can we use
ICT smartly to improve learning and why ICT is so important in learning? As far
as I am concerned, the use of ICT in teaching or learning may benefit both
teachers and students. For students who live in rural area, they can
communicate with teachers by log in the Internet, they can click on the lesson they
want to learn or they assign to learn, so that they share the same opportunity
with students who have class at school. The cost of learning reduced because
they don’t need to travel in a long distance. Moreover, computers help students
to learn differently and think differently. There are plenty of source in the
Internet that students can search it, read it and react to it. Article they
read could be the same, but reaction or thinking might be different due to
different sources, and students need to distinguish what is right and what is
wrong from what they read online.
The future of teaching starts from the implement of
technology, we, as teachers, can not ignore what is happening now, but we need
to accept new trend of teaching is coming, get ready for it!
Thanks for you illustration of how some students in Chinese class use their smart phones. They use smart phone to check unknown words they hear from the instructor or sometimes, they use it to google relevant knowledge to the topic they discussed. That's a very good example.
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