Saturday, February 14, 2015

Who dears to teach must never cease to learn

    The high developing technology changes our daily life as well as our education. As a 21st century teacher, what kind of challenges will we meet and what should we do to adjust ourselves to the changing world? To keep the traditional teaching method or to be creative?
    The video Educational change challenge summarizes what challenges all of us interested in education and how it is best accomplished today. Just as George Evans says:” Every student can learn, just not on the same day or the same way.” The young are more open faced with new technology so that many students are expert in Internet and show boundless enthusiasm about it. Thus, moving from a one-room schoolhouse to the one world school house is now a reality. The video come up with the question to the teachers:







   




    This video A vision of 21st Century Teachers gives us the answer to the teachers.


     In fact, we can take full advantage of this tool and create a platform, thus helping students to connect, communicate, collaborate, and create in an interactive technology-rich environment.We can encourage students to collaborate to create multimedia reports, such as posting their videos, soundtracks, photographs, essays in their study as well as in life. We can inspire students to interact in online projects with other students not only in our school but also across the country or even the world. We can build up their self-confidence so that even the shy ones can express their opinions freely. We can give students different experiences by providing different learning styles.
    To sum up, all of above not only takes us more time online to maintain a class website or research for learning resources but also requires us to do more with technology, critical thinking and so on. Even though we have started, we still have a lot to learn in the process of improving the efficiency of online teaching. 



2 comments:

  1. I really like the way you began your post with the question, "What kind of challenges will we meet and what should we do to adjust ourselves to the changing world?" The two videos you chose to review do give some good answers to that question!

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  2. I totally agree with you that technology provides students with a platform to communicate and collaborate, especially for some shy students. Through this platform, students all over the other are able to share their learning experience with others. Additionally, students are encouraged to build their self-confidence through their successful experience of using technology to develop their learning.

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