Teaching is to offer the best possible education to all children and young people. Because some fundamental human values are unchanging, there are aspects of school life and learning that remain the same from generation to generation. On the other hand, the world in which children and young people are growing up is constantly changing, creating challenges for each new generation. As such, aspect of teaching in the today’s classroom is subject to change in response to such new challenges. We as an educator must carry out this task “Using Technology for Teaching” and must move forward – preserving the good of the past, while meeting the Challenges of changing times!
We as an educator must seize this opportunity.
Thanks
Jigme Norbu
In our school, We are going back to fundamentals, that is, to enhance our core values we, as humans beings, possess. Without them, we are doomed.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you when you say we have to preserve the past eventhough technology and fast living may drag us with them.
Let´s keep that in mind not only in our classes but in our personal and social lives.
Hello Jigme.
ReplyDeleteI couldn't agree more with what you stated in your post. The increasing investment in computer and information technologies does not automatically guarantee learning, far from it. It can never substitute methodology or good instinct. As I quoted Chris Yapp in my introduction, 'Smart technologies need smart (and good, I would add) people, they do not replace them'. And I absolutely agree with you that fundamental human values should never ever change no matter what approach or pedagogy we decide to use in education. Technology should be yet one of the tools we deploy purposefully, functionally and creatively to enhance our teaching.
Looking forward to your following posts,
Nada
Hi Jigme
ReplyDeleteI agree heartily with Nada. Technology is a tool, that can be used or misused. It must be used wisely, and that is what I hope to emphasize in this class. We should let the curriculum and the needs dictate the technology we use, and not the other way around.
Robert