My concluding thought

{ June 15, 2008 @ 5:43 pm } · { Uncategorized }
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From the start of the year I wasn’t a confident with using technology. Each week I was taught something new, something interesting and something fun. I truly believe that as teachers we can make a better people and a better community with the aid of technology. I don’t believe we should fight for the ‘tradition’ ideas and methods. Yes they work and yes they’re beneficial, but we are quickly moving into a different world.
Just like the previous blog, we need to implement technology for our student’s sake. We are responsible for their future and we have to equip them with what they will need to survive this world.

The various software and hardware that I mentioned and researched over the past few months are tools that we should use to learn with and get to know. With this software does not mean we “stuff” the curriculum by using the computer in every lesson, it means we should all become confident and digital literate so that we properly use the software. When technology supports lessons, it will provide students’ with the skill and techniques that can enhance their learning process and provide a foundation to which they can build upon.
Also, we need to be aware and know these programs in order to supervise students’. We have learnt that with the good always comes the bad. There are many dangerous websites on the internet and we have to be careful and explain this to children.

We should obtain a constructivist approach when it comes to technology. The learning environments should support multiple perspectives or interpretations of reality, knowledge construction, context-rich, experience-based activities. “Children (and grown-ups) learn best when they actively engage in playful exploration in which, try ideas out and tinker with notions — their own and those of others.”
I want to be a teacher that is confident in all that I do and will be willing to learn and try new ideas. We are heading towards an ongoing battle what the students’ will need to know. What one day may be deemed important and then two years later it may be out of date.

We must have an open mind and enjoy teaching! I have learnt a lot this year and I will definitely be using it through all my years.

 

 

 

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