Teaching challenges - education and technology - Roles of teachers today
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By Silvia Sowa
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Teachers
• “Teachers’ decisions may affect the lives of students in many ways…of students in many ways…
• Trial and error can not be part of the developing professional field of an instructor…
• A teacher’s mind must be clear and student oriented enough for him to be student oriented enough for him to be able to understand his students.”
Silvia Sowa
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Are you teacher… accepting
the challenges of the new
digital era in education?digital era in education?
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• Teachers today have many questions.
• It is not an easy task to become part of • It is not an easy task to become part of
the changing educative contexts.
• When facing changes of today´s
education; we could say there might be
certain “postures” towards the immersion certain “postures” towards the immersion
of the new learning and teaching
environments.
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Teachers’ attitudes towards new education
Techno-phobic
Closed position
In between (no
preparation
Getting
involved preparation
Middle of the
road position
involved
Open position
(instruction)
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• Teachers have taken a new role, now they
accompany, orient, and guide through the accompany, orient, and guide through the
new learning environments.
• They are immigrants in this techno-
social- knowledge era.
• They face many changes in their students • They face many changes in their students
attitudes, interests, and ways to learn.
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Challenges
• Native students characteristics:
• Multitask learners.• Multitask learners.
• Social and cooperative attitudes towards
learning.
• Ability to use technology and its
applications.applications.
• Global mind processes for solving problems.
• Digital skills.
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Native versus immigrant
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Teachers need to:
• Develop digital competence.
• Get training.• Get training.
• Learn and apply digital and technological resources.
• Learn to use searchers and resources.
• Become innovative and creative.
• Support each other, cooperate, • Support each other, cooperate, collaborate, learn together….
• Dare!
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Students need to:
• Learn the appropriate ways to use technology in their own preparation process.
• Get knowledge and awareness of the • Get knowledge and awareness of the Internet privacy and security.
• Organize time, value skills.
• Learn the ethical and legal use of social networks, material, sources, etc.
• Critical attitude, sense of cooperation.• Critical attitude, sense of cooperation.
• Control over content matter.
• Organize and apply methods for specific purposes.
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Recommendations
• Change and learning have to be engaged to unity and cooperation from institutions.unity and cooperation from institutions.
• Curriculum must be revised and planned.
• Resources have to be prepared, tested, and verified.
• Teachers training programs have to be organized. organized.
• Change should be structured and well-planned.
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• Sources:• Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants. Prensky, Marc. • Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants. Prensky, Marc.
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• Lifelong Learning. Redecker, Christine. 2008.
• Literacy and Numeracy Skills. Maher, Eleen. 2011
• The Changing Classroom. Article 2987 issue of THE Journal. 2012
• Silvia Sowa. 2012• Silvia Sowa. 2012
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