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Friday, June 11, 2010

Technology in education_My advice

We might have constraints in our job. We might sometimes think that our situation is the worst in the world. We might like to try something new in our classes but we would let it down because of either physical constraints or lack of necessary competencies. We might suffer from the lack of our motivation and that of our students. We might even give uninteresting lessons… Technology can solve all these problems and many others. It is making a invasion all over the world. There is no place in the world where you can’t find a piece of technology like TV, CD player, mp3, computers.... Whether we like it or not, our students are strongly attracted these gadgets. If they are bound to use it, why not using it for something good. Then these have plenty of advantages. All we need is to think of good ways to integrate them into our classes so as to bring liveliness, interest and motivation. It is not always necessary to pay to use things; there are plenty of materials we can get for free. It is not always necessary to pay to learn; there are plenty of free resources from which you can learn what and how to use. You should only believe in the potentiality of technology and the change it can make in education if used properly. Don’t use it per se or because it is the tendency, but use it because you are certain make help you attain you lessons’ objective more effectively.

Yours,

Hamid

2 comments:

  1. Dear Hamid,

    in this post you underlined one major problem: teachers' lack of motivation. And there are millions, everywhere in the world. It's hard to make them start, it's hard to try to motivate them. They would invoke thousands of reasons: lack of time, uninterested and uninteresting students, low salaries and so on. Maybe, it's better to start motivating them by giving ourselves as examples.

    I have always invited teachers to attend my classes and watch. Then, I explained why I did or did not do some activities. Then, I attended their classes and I provided them feed-back. Some of them were laughing at me, some others started to apply what I suggested - and that's the point.

    We can do many things to motivate them and start using technology in their classes, even if it's a simple CD player. It's a start!

    Nadina

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  2. Thank you Nadina for you insightful comments. It alsways needs motivated teachers to motivate students. But I personally think whatever our working conditions are, we have to do our job appropriately and constantly do our best since we accept to be teachers. Learners are innocent and have nothing to do with our working conditions. We therefore have to do our best to motivate them and make them learn for their best an d the best of our nations.
    Yours,
    Hamid

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