Education is changing

Education change challenge



I strongly agree about this video says: "Teachers need to exist in the spaces the students exist, understand their culture. You have no credibility if you are not where they are."

A good teacher should always think about what students think, what students want, and what students need. As the Cisco Systems said, "Moving from the one-room schoolhouse to the one-world schoolhouse is now a reality". With the changing and developing of the web and technology, we teachers should not only consider more about the tools and technology we use in the class, but also explore the most effective ways of teaching, always depending on students.

I dream to be "a good teacher" someday, who is loved by students inside their mind.

Technology and Web give a channel to Everyone

Every teacher should be aware of the strong importance and benefits of using technologies in the classrooms. As Blake J. Robert said that, “All language professionals need to become acquaint with the potential advantages of using technology in their programs. Without some general claims to success and media superiority, chairs, deans, and other decision-making bodies won’t understand or support new ways of teaching second languages with technology.”(page4) For example, with a class blog, the teacher can review students’ learning capacity so that adjust his teaching methods.

Students also can receive different kinds of advantages through using technologies such as webs. “It is misleading to talk about technology as if one were dealing with just a single, homogeneous tool; different technologically based tools render different advantages for L2 learning.”(page4) With blogs, students can not only use discussion boards to discuss some questions and issues in the class, but also talk about interesting experiences and stories.

“More important, the web gives all peoples a channel to express their voice, promote their self-image, and legitimize their goals. This sense of authenticity provides endless topics for cross-cultural analysis and discussions in any content-driven classroom.”(page5) As Blake said, both teachers and students can be given a route to enforce their teaching and study.

Blake, Robert J. & Dorothy M. Chun. (2008). Brave New Digital Classroom: Technology and Foreign Language Learning. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press.