Pay Attention!

After Watching the video Pay Attenyion!, I am considering the drawbacks  on  the quality of education if a teacher doesn’t know how to make a good  use of technology in teaching.

I had no idea on how serious the problem would be until I watched the data. Yes, indeed students range from young kids in elementary school to graduate students are engaging themselves in computer, the Internet, cell phone and i-pod. They are not only engaged with those technology. The majority of students actually indulge in them. Hence, there is no doubt that teachers should use the technology to engage and motivate students in learning and studying. I believe it’s each teacher’s dream that their students make as much efforts in learning as they do in playing video games and chatting with friends on line. Why not making the dream come true?

Another issue that the clip mentioned is the richness of information on line. Nowadays, the learning is no longer confined in a textbook, few pages of handouts or a classroom. Moving from a one room school house to a one world school house is the reality. Therefore, it is important for a teacher to remove the wall that restricted students learning. Due to the fact that students have different aptitudes, interests and ways of learning, it’s a teacher’s duty to enable students to learn with their own ways. And the variety in availability of resources enable both teachers and students to reach the highest effectiveness of learning and teaching.   

After watching this video, as a future educator, I swear that I would definitely cure my technology phobia and meanwhile, I would make huge efforts in polishing skills of using technology and resources on-line so as to benefit my future students.

There is another interesting and inspiring website : Transforming Teaching Through Technology related to the topic above.  There are much more information provided on how to integrate teaching and technology