Q:
What do you need to work on? Part of becoming a better technology using teaching is doing a self assessment of your skills.. what are some areas that you need to work on to make more meaningful use of technology in your job. If you are not sure how to answer this.. ask your coworkers or fellow students - they might be able to tell you..Make sure to tell me, why it limits you, or your teaching..
A:
Technology is definitely one of the sweet-bitter human inventions in the world. Sweet is because it has changed our life so drastically. Just by pressing the buttons we can converse with the people millions miles away; Just by pressing the buttons we can see the latest news happened around the world; Just by pressing the buttons we can purchase anything we want. How magical the technology is. What is more important, the change that the technology brings to us is way beyond our expectation, and it will continue to change our life in a substantial better way. Bitter is due to its side-effects it has had on people. More and more people are turning to couch-potatoes; More and more people cast the books away by killing time online; More and more people tend to think their lives are living without the technology. It seems we are technologically confined.
As a teacher with three years' teaching experience, I have to confess that I have a hate and love affection towards technology as well. Loving it is because technology opens a brand-new door in the realm of modern education. Technology inspires us and motivates us to break the traditional methodology by incorporating both technological skills and products into teaching. That is why I would like to use computer-assisted classroom to carry out my instruction, for the sake of the diversity that the computers offer. What is more, I love it is because technology can surpass the limitations of time and space. For example, via Skype, I can teach American kids Mandarin wherever I am. Hating it is due to the fact that there are numerous new technology emerging now and then, which put teachers in a dilemma. Which technology is better for classroom instruction; which technology may have some side-effects on students; which technology is definitely harmful to students; etc. Moreover, as teaching is more technologicalized, teachers are under huge pressure too, such as curriculum redesign, textbook adaptation, technology evaluation, and so on concerning applying technology into teaching. It seems technology is a burden to teachers.
As to the question, what do i need to work on? I believe I should try to be more innovative and observant. Nowadays, what we lack is not about the ideas of creating new fancy stuff, but truly what we are lacking of is the way how to put the new technology into application, and how to invent more educationally orientated technology to assist education. Therefore, as a teaching not majored in science, what i can do now is to take the advantage of the current technology and try to blend it into my foreign language teaching. In addition to that, I must do more cross-discipline classroom observations and learn from teachers in different disciplines. Last but least, teaching evaluation. Not only should I do evaluation by myself, but also I should invite other teachers to observe and evaluate my class. In this way, I will learning he shortcomings that i might not be able to notice by myself.
As to the question, what do i need to work on? I believe I should try to be more innovative and observant. Nowadays, what we lack is not about the ideas of creating new fancy stuff, but truly what we are lacking of is the way how to put the new technology into application, and how to invent more educationally orientated technology to assist education. Therefore, as a teaching not majored in science, what i can do now is to take the advantage of the current technology and try to blend it into my foreign language teaching. In addition to that, I must do more cross-discipline classroom observations and learn from teachers in different disciplines. Last but least, teaching evaluation. Not only should I do evaluation by myself, but also I should invite other teachers to observe and evaluate my class. In this way, I will learning he shortcomings that i might not be able to notice by myself.
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