Use technology in classroom, wisely
Technology facilitates teaching and always helps teacher in creating good classroom atmosphere. However, there is a point which should be noted – overuse of technology can diminish the positive role of a teacher and produce unexpected results.
When a teacher takes recourse to technology, the purpose is to create interest among the students and help them learn things easily and effectively. The strategy culminates into good results if one knows how to use technology wisely without circumscribing the positive role of a teacher in the class room.
Sometimes a teacher relies heavily on technology and diminishes a significant role that he can play to make the learning process more productive. A teacher along with the use of technological instruments in the class room must focus upon his teaching methodology, and skills that he has acquired after years of experience.
In order to throw more light on the issue I am presenting two examples.
In the first example there is a teacher who comes in the class room and straightforwardly opens up PowerPoint presentation in front of the students.
In his presentation of the PowerPoint slides he assumes that the students will enjoy and understand the topic easily. Once the presentation is over his job is done.
In the second example there is a teacher who comes in the class room, but before leading the students to the PowerPoint presentation he initiates the students’ interest and curiosity about the topic. During the time of presentation he puts his extra effort to explain the topic already prescribed in the presentation and maintains students’ interest in the topic as well as interacts with them to make the class lively. At the end of the presentation he checks the understanding of the student in relation to the topic by various tactics, i.e. brain storming.
Among these two examples we can see that in the first example the teacher is more complacent in his use of technology and hence the positive role of a teacher is missing. He substitutes his role with an insufficient use of technology.
Whereas, in the second example the teacher uses technology without compromising his positive role in the class room. In fact, he enriches his teaching skill with the use of technology.
Hence, it is most advisable that a teacher should use technology in the class room. But the care should be taken that he does not compromise with his own role in the class room 🙂