Tuesday 15 September 2015

A changing education landscape 4.1.4


  • I have observed and learned that modern teachers need to know that learners have a divergent mind when it comes to the use of technology. It remains the duty of the teacher to guide his learners in order to become responsible digital citizens.
  • This module shows how poisonous the Internet can be to society and can create renegades instead of useful professionals. The Internet is portrayed as a tool to disseminate harmful information to the public. The most interesting of all is that students only or more often look for where they can cause danger in order to express their notoriety.
  • Teacher need to put monitoring means within the school technology structure in order to monitor the reckless learners. Also to relentlessly talk to student to be good digital citizens. Use of Wordles can make students’ write-ups interesting and boost up their studies instead of misusing the various media tools at their disposal.
  • Guidance and mentoring is as well vital to the learners. Some learners went to school because their parents wanted them to be at school. Such learners are the ones who may think in future that going through a university is enough no matter what they learned from there; such learners can never have a divergent thinking and would find it too difficult to fit in the modern challenging world which demands for creativity as opposed to the era of the industrial revolution when one would only do a job that he studied and qualified for. Education and technology requires teachers to prepare learners to be ‘Donkeys of all walks’.

4 comments:

  1. Good observations Sula. In addition to that learning needs to be in tandem with the individual learner intetest so that it can draw out the best in them.

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  2. Hallo Sula, it's true Wordle makes the students learning more interesting as well as colourful.

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  3. True Sula. The internet has its own challenges and we therefore need to watch out for our learners as we also encourage them to carry out academic research.

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