USE IT OR LOSE IT?
"In education the use it or lose it may mean, if you don't use technology for learning, you may lose relevance. An educator must be relevant." The words are from the video Educational Change Challenge, which impressed me a lot. Indeed, nowadays, education cannot be carried out without technology. Like teachers use Powerpoint, projector to lecture, students send their homework by emails, and both teachers and students use all kinds of technology tools in their teaching and studying, such as Microsoft Word, Excel, Endnote, Photoshop,etc. Also, we search information from the internet, google, Wikipedia, Youtube, etc. Take this online course as an example, we do everything through computer. Therefore, I cannot image the education without technology in modern time.
Classroom of tomorrow： The video shows us some common technology tools we use in our class, like iPad, smartphone, tablets. However, this phenomenon may only appears in advanced areas, I mean in most rural areas or poor areas, teachers and students don't have much access to these technology tools. However, we know, realizing IT-enabled classroom is the trend of education development. Therefore, I believe, classroom of tomorrow should be IT-enabled, which means teachers and students fully make use of information and technology to have classes.
I really agree with what you mentioned in the first paragraph. Nowadays, teachers who don't use technology tools in their classes will be regarded as unfashionable and inflexible instructors. Students are more likely to accept knowledge in an advanced way not the traditional way. What's more, popularization of technology in rural areas is really a problem. But I believe development and support from government will solve it gradually. Now we've seen the huge change of in our country!
ReplyDeleteI'm glad that you pointed out that in many areas of the world modern technology is not available. What matters most for all teaching is good pedagogy - good methodology. The teacher must think about what the objectives are and how best to meet them with the particular students he or she is teaching. However, where possible, technology allows teachers and learners to do learning tasks which would not be possible without the internet.
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