”Traveling broadens the mind” has been true in my life so far. Yet, it is a bit difficult travel in cyberspace. Thanks to my instructors and colleagues, I have come to see so many great sites for instructors and learners, but my progress to become an E-teacher is still slow. Not being able to have my homework done properly makes me nervous.
However, there is a big change in me now. Taking the web-learning course has been changing my method of teaching drastically. I occasionally printed out web-materials and used them in the classroom and also had students research for the related articles before, but never have I used a website as a tutorial tool. This week I was exposed to several articles and many websites that are used as tutors such as “ESL Independent Study Lab,”(http://legacy.lclark.edu/~krauss/toppicks/toppicks.html) or ”Grammar Blast”, http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hme/k_5/quizzes/.
The direction of future education is going toward learner-centered approaches vice teacher-centered. I realized the methods I have been taking so far are very much teacher-centered. I had a lot of control over them. With the use of technology, it is time to give students a little more autonomy to learn. Each student has a different method to learn and we teachers need different tools to tackle the diversity of students at school and it helps them enjoy their work.
“Variety is the spice of life”
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Dear kazumi,
ReplyDeleteThe centre is shifting. In traditional class, Teacher is/was at the centre. Now students are at the centre. Teacher is moving towards peripheri. Web-tools is emerging as strong link between student and teacher.
Learne Autonomy is an imprtant thing. It is proven by research as well as experience that most things which we do not forget are learnt when we were given autonomy to learn.
Dilip (India)