A fresh start?
One of my dearest friend Fatima Hachem wrote this article on implementing IT in teaching. Can it be beneficial for young students?
I found this article interesting, because the subject of implementing IT in teachings has been discussed over and over again. As the article states, a British survey done in 2002, showed schools that had a really good resource of IT, would result in 55% of students being above average in English, mathematics and sciences.
Unfortunately only 23% of students would be above average in schools that had a low resource of IT.
How do we take these numbers into consideration? Is it something that needs to be given extra attention to?
In my opinion I think that IT can be very beneficial during a lesson. It can help a lot of students who need things to be illustrated. I hope that IT will become a standard thing in the future - just like the book was / is.
interesting article Hassan. I completely agree with you that IT should be implemented in schools.
SvarSletIt's like blended learning, which shows the students also increase their learning pace because they find it so much more interesting and fun when you use technology in your teaching. And what's better than having a child say that they are having fun while learning? I really don't think that we can avoid technology in this modern world, even if some are against it. It's just something people have to accept i guess.
So the question isn't weather or not it should be used in classes, but rather what we do about schools that don't have the resources as you say yourself. To that question I can't stop thinking about the developing countries and their lack of resource! We have everything we need when we compare ourselves to those countries.
Like I said myself, I believe that the use of IT helps increase the students skills, so less skilled students in schools that don't have the resources, that I get, but it really amazes and shocks me that we in the western world, in this case in Britain, have only 23 % of students being above average! I don't get that!
The concept of blended learning, in which multiple learning environments and activities are combined, has existed for quite some time. Long before the advent of computers and social networks, teachers created blended learning experiences using simple technologies like paper and pencil.
SvarSletSo don't count out older technologies just because you are trying to be a "21st Century Educator. We just assume that all 'technology has to be digital but sometimes a dry erase marker and a wipe-off slate will do the job just fine.