One of my favourite things that Jabiz wrote was “I see effectively using technology as a way to help students experiment with new tools to help them discover how to access, interpret, and use information not only from static web-based sources, but from interactive student-created networks”. I agree completely, I do not believe that we as teachers should integrate technology into our teaching just for the sake of it. It should apart of us, something we do automatically, something that helps us not inhibits us. Empowering our students to use the technology is a must.
I love the fact that here is a teacher that is not afraid of the technology and actively goes about his life incorporating it into his teaching and doesn’t view it as a hassle but as an advantage, a guide, something to help him. He repeats what another blogger says and quotes him along with many other blogger. It shows that he not only creates his own blog but he is well read and actively searches other bloggers out and reads what they have to say. He quotes Ewan and write; “It’s more about helping learners become more world-aware, more communicative, learning from each other, understanding first hand what makes the world go around.”
This I believe is the core idea to using technology in our teaching. The internet surrounds the leaner with different cultures, different portals to different worlds. Places they can visit online that they wouldn’t normally be able to visit at school. They can connect with many different people of many different language of different countries. It opens up avenues that weren’t thought possible. I believe that incorporating technology into our teaching is a must and the more you know the better you are at teaching your students the technologies they already have a grasp on. It is what makes the world goes round, it is our world, we need to keep up or be forced to the bottom of the pile, seen to be inferior in our knowledge when compared to the computer savy teens we are teaching.
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August 19th, 2008 at 7:32 pm
Thank you for taking the time to read my blog, and more importantly to review my words on your blog. I am glad you found something meaningful in what I had to say. I hope you will remain a regular reader, and I will stay in touch with your growth as a blogger as well.
October 13th, 2008 at 9:38 am
[...] is a reaction to Jabiz found through KayIa’s blog. I hear this ‘death by PowerPoint’ slogan a lot (Jabiz) and I wince, because I think [...]