Teaching with Technology ~ A Philosophy Statement
Hello everyone, this is a
new post about teaching with technology. I am supposed to write a philosophy
statement for a task for my Instrucional
Technologies and Materials Design in ELT course.
We
are in the 21st century and we are surrounded by technologic
devices; such as telephones, TVs, tablets and most importantly, computers. Most
people benefit from these devices for knowledge, when they need information, or
they follow the news from all over the world. Some people prefer playing games,
and some prefer reading books online. To sum up, technology has a lot of uses
for every person and every age group.
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Since
technology is very beneficial, it should be used for educational purposes in
schools too. Its most useful benefit is that, technology can provide many
teaching methods. For example, using slides in the classroom or playing online
games related to the topic of the lesson could make the lesson more enjoyable.
When a student is enjoying the lesson, he/she would be willing to participate
more often and thus his/her knowledge about the lesson could be more permanent.
Making the students understand the topics and providing them with permanent
knowledge is crucial for education.
However,
technology has disadvantages too. The
most important one is being guided by false information. After all not every
kind of information on the Internet is completely true, and students,
especially young learners, may be affected adversely by it.
Another
disadvantage is making students disconnect from the real world. It is known
that when children are exposed to Internet or technologic devices too much,
they lose connection with things or events around them. Teachers and parents
must be careful while using technology as an education device.
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About
seeing myself as a 21st century teacher, well, I hardly do. I am not
very good at using technologic devices, I only know about basic things. But I
am trying to improve myself and I think I will manage to use many tools while
teaching in the future. I will be definitely using technology in my classes,
because although it has shortcomings, I think technology is a necessity, even
in schools.
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