Its amazing yet frightening how technology has silently but swiftly creeped its way into our classrooms, making itself indispencible and us 'crippled' without it. Admittedly, its sometimes scary when students know more about digital stuffs than we do. The term digital immigrant have been aptly coined to describe people like us. Most of us struggled having to adapt, conform and teach using the various forms of technology, especilally IT, to students who makes up the digital communities. As educators, how do we resolve this tension? How do we try to catch up with these net generations so as not to make ourselves ancient and unreliable source of information?
I view the feeling of incompetence, reluctance and discomfort of leveraging on technology in our classrooms as a desease that hinder students from learning well. I strongly believe that everyone, especially teachers, should embrace technology into their classrooms gracefully. Since our charges are digital natives who live, learn and surrounded by technology constantly, we educators have the advantage to use technology as a tool to help us drive learning effectively. With a press of a button or a flick of a switch, students' learning lands itself beyond what is scribed in the syllabus, making learning bounderless with the world its classroom, especially in the world of the internet. The only contention that I have is how do we teachers guide students' learning to what is relevant and required to complete a task, knowing that abundance of information is uploaded on the web daily
I view the feeling of incompetence, reluctance and discomfort of leveraging on technology in our classrooms as a desease that hinder students from learning well. I strongly believe that everyone, especially teachers, should embrace technology into their classrooms gracefully. Since our charges are digital natives who live, learn and surrounded by technology constantly, we educators have the advantage to use technology as a tool to help us drive learning effectively. With a press of a button or a flick of a switch, students' learning lands itself beyond what is scribed in the syllabus, making learning bounderless with the world its classroom, especially in the world of the internet. The only contention that I have is how do we teachers guide students' learning to what is relevant and required to complete a task, knowing that abundance of information is uploaded on the web daily
As educators, teaching anything else apart from reading textbooks capture the interest of our students. Agreeing with what was shared by Prof Smith and her colleagues on the use of technology in transforming their teaching and leaning practices, the use of technology do admittedly impact student's motivation and learning. Moreover,using technology to get a project through allows students the platform to work collaboratively and teach them to look at the perspectives of others. These life skills are a bonus which we rarely get from dispencing information from textbooks. The question is, since we know the benefits of using technology in teaching and learning, why then a number of us teachers are still resisting it?
