Week 2 Question #3

My synthesized view of teaching, learning, and technology.

I believe that teaching must always be evolving, evaluating, and energetic to engage students. What I mean by those 4 E’s is that an educator must be ready to change “evolve”, must always be assessing “evaluating” what the student is learning and ready to adapt the way they are teaching. Last but not least the educator must be energetic to captivate the students on an everyday basis. I truly believe that an educator must incorporate more than lecture into their classroom for the students to learn. It has been proven that different students learn different ways. An educator must have a huge briefcase full of tricks to be ready to overcome every obstacle that he or she might face. Some students learn better by visual aids, while others need hands on instruction.

The educator has to be ready to adapt their classroom setting by evaluating how much and how the student is learning. When the educator is aware of how each student learns then they can truly begin to teach the material. Advanced material truly needs to be distributed in different ways to further their understanding of the matter. So many different things must be taken into account when dealing with students and styles of learning. Home life is a big factor in the student’s preparedness at school and eagerness to learn. An educator is not going to be able to reach the student with energy or visual aids when that student is hungry. If the student comes to school after being abused it is going to be hard for an educator to get through to the student. An educator’s responsibility reaches further than just educating we become responsible for the student’s well being so that they can become educated.

Technology in this day in age is a must in the classroom. In the “Information Age” students must be more knowledgeable in technology to succeed in the work place. Student’s need understand the importance of technology and what it can do for them as students and future entrepreneurs. The earlier technology can be introduced to a student the better. The intranet has so much to offer to students for research purposes. Students are now able to do quick and easy research on the intranet and develop their research into reports and displays. Students are able to learn and present knowledge in so many different ways when technology is present. Teachers must be ready to incorporate technology into the curriculum no matter what subject so that students have the option to learn in a variety of ways.