Sunday
So far today has been very relaxing, although I have thoroughly cleaned the bathrooms and washed the towels. Mr Cee has finished making his new garden shed between rain showers (forecast today 11C/52F and cloudy, but in fact rainy). We've been watching more of The Witcher which is almost as confusing as the first series.
Sir Mowsalot the lawnbot has been mowing the lawn the last few days as the warmer weather and the rain showers have made the grass start to grow.
Later there will be pizza for dinner - it's been a relaxing day which is what Sundays should be. Next week there will be exercise, lunch with friends, coffee with friends and an outing to London so that will be fun! I do like a busy week.
On to today's question: 13. How can technology improve education? Can it hurt education?
I'll try and keep this brief - but I was still teaching when technology started to be part of teaching and I know the pitfalls and the plusses. I love technology, but it's a tool, it should NEVER take over the whole of education. It should be there to enhance and not to stifle creativity and to enable the application of knowledge, not be there as a substitute.
At it's best you can use technology to help students understand things. I used to use it to show students how people with various impairments saw the world (there were some great programs to show them how someone with visual issues might see, or dyslexic learners saw words for example). At it's best people use the internet as a tool, and use valid and reliable information from it.
At it's worst students believe anything they read on the internet (and don't understand how to check their sources). At it's worst the powers that be think that just because you have technology in the classroom you will have students who succeed. This is very far from the truth, and it should never be used instead of good teaching at any stage of education. Unfortunately, there were a lot of people I dealt with who couldn't get their heads around that!
The rest of the questions are here.
Sir Mowsalot the lawnbot has been mowing the lawn the last few days as the warmer weather and the rain showers have made the grass start to grow.
Later there will be pizza for dinner - it's been a relaxing day which is what Sundays should be. Next week there will be exercise, lunch with friends, coffee with friends and an outing to London so that will be fun! I do like a busy week.
On to today's question: 13. How can technology improve education? Can it hurt education?
I'll try and keep this brief - but I was still teaching when technology started to be part of teaching and I know the pitfalls and the plusses. I love technology, but it's a tool, it should NEVER take over the whole of education. It should be there to enhance and not to stifle creativity and to enable the application of knowledge, not be there as a substitute.
At it's best you can use technology to help students understand things. I used to use it to show students how people with various impairments saw the world (there were some great programs to show them how someone with visual issues might see, or dyslexic learners saw words for example). At it's best people use the internet as a tool, and use valid and reliable information from it.
At it's worst students believe anything they read on the internet (and don't understand how to check their sources). At it's worst the powers that be think that just because you have technology in the classroom you will have students who succeed. This is very far from the truth, and it should never be used instead of good teaching at any stage of education. Unfortunately, there were a lot of people I dealt with who couldn't get their heads around that!
The rest of the questions are here.