Teaching with Technology

 Today’s subject is teaching with the technology. So, you will read my opinions related to this subject on this post. 

 Before I reflect my ideas, I want to talk about my learning journey with the computers, telephones, smart boards, projections and other stuffs that educational technology offers us. I was born into technology. Before I started the primary school, the internet was avaliable at my home. Thus, it was inevitable for me to utilize the all the technological sources I was able to reach at that time but I was supposed to abstain from them and head towards to the sources which I had better to find at the library. These are what I was expected to do according to my teachers’ perspectives. 

 Now that it is my case, I think over and over to figure out why my teachers treated me like this. It is probably because of the poverty of the technology they were exposed to. They thought it was harmful and not useful. But actually it really is when it does not used properly. 

 As a candidate teachers of the future, we should not escape from the tech but embrace it. It is stated that “educational technology involves applying ideas from various sources to create the best learning environments possible for students. Educational technologists also ask questions such as how a classroom might change or adapt when a computer is integrated into the curriculum” (Hooper & Rieber, 1995, p. 155).

 If we teach the students the way we used to be teached, there will be a problem. Because it is a fact that the effects of the tech is not avoidable and we should learn to mix it up with our teaching methods. When we do so, our educational environment will be healtier, more efficient an even funnier.

References: 

Hooper, S., & Rieber, L. P. (1995). Teaching with technology. In A. C. Ornstein(Ed.), Teaching: Theory into practice, (pp. 154-170). Needham Heights, MA: Allynand Bacon.