In a teaching world, which is becoming unpredictable right now, how can we use technology without losing our teaching capacity? what in Spain is called not falling into technocracies and being more managers than mechanics
Technology is important and a helpful and useful tool. However, it should not and will never ever replace human power and human factors that are the main assets in the teaching/learning process. Technology when used appropriately, is very effective.
I am planning to encourage my students to use technology instead of me delivering the lesson using technology. Any teaching tool can be transformed into an assessment tool
Why do you assume working without technology at a time we are using technology and using technology by all means- online marketing, online shopping, online teaching, online medical counselling, etc. I am not sure what is the purpose of your question?
Driss Harrizi seems to respond to how can we use technology without losing our teaching ability? with a laconic "I don't think so". But Driss, we have to invent some strategy, right?
I appreciate Abdelkader Mohamed Elsayed's answer, but that does not answer the question, can we really not invent any strategy to avoid falling under the control of technology companies?
I appreciate the response from Mundher Alsaaidi منذر السعيدي when optimistically he says "I think so, but technology facilitates the learning process."
That makes it easier for all of us to know, but how to be teachers and not only serve technologies and their creators? Because it is very easy to believe that we innovate in the classroom and solve the problems that have arisen since Covid 19, letting ourselves be carried away with, for example, recordings, presentations, or traditional performances on You tube channels.
Thank you Hassan Izzeddin Sarsak for your answer that I share, although the question remains in the air: You say "Technology, when used properly, is very effective." Then, then, we will have to characterize that use. What would that intelligent use be and how do we characterize it?
Thanks Rachelle Roberthon I share that the question is doubtful. I am with you when you ask:
- Will all elementary students receive natural hand manipulatives to learn how to add and subtract?
- Does that mean that parents also earn income as teachers or replacement wages to now stay inside and also educate their children?
- What if someone can earn more than a traditional educator salary?
Let me smile at you "I guess that will have to be added to intellectual property in discussions too." We already want a court to order it like this !!!
You say, with a lot of sanity "Now we are adding more Internet and cybersecurity threats to violate more laws instead of realizing that technology made everyone visible. The goal now is to sit at home and fight like video games? Why?" Well that's part of the problem and, ... who benefits?
It is not about denying or not denying, the reality is there, the question is: how not to be dominated by the media and telematic resources ?, especially when everyone already talks about outbreaks of the famous virus soon and we will have a rare teaching the next course
You say that you are planning to encourage my students to use technology instead of you teaching the lesson using technology. Very commendable on your part, unless you achieve that with a mere algorithmic training of the telematic medium.
I share that it is better to train students in their powerful use than in making traditional-style displays, but that does not solve the question of how to educate them in the "good use" of them and, above all, in their use to learn our curricula.
I do not understand what you say about evaluation, of course, any source of information is usable so that a teacher with clear criteria, above the vulgar additive weighting of sections, is able to use these means to evaluate.
But, will this evaluation be formative? How are we going to get it? Will we bother to give feedback to all students (I have 70 + 70 + 22 + 33 in the faculty of education)? and if we dare to do it, when do we live? How long can our spare parts last us for 10 hours before the computer every day?
But when you say that "technology as mathematical communication is important to create active learning", you might ask yourself: is it the same for you physically and mentally active? Is an active teaching model the same as an activist?
And, suppose we agree to make the above answers more complex, but the question remains, how do we do it?
Samy, thanks for your rhetorical answer, although I think it was very seriously raised.
I would tell you that the fundamental purpose of the question is that you help me to know, define, characterize ... some good or expert teaching practices, with technology.
Well for me the problem is to discern how to allow these not to leave the student in the superficiality of learning. If you allow me the simile, as when it hurts us to repeat that using the algorithm is not equivalent to having a mathematical notion conceptualized (calculating limits or eliminating indeterminacies is not equivalent to understanding the epistemological evolution of the concept of limit), for talking about my field of work with future teachers of infant, primary, secondary and university.
For next academic year, more likely there will be a mix of online-only and hybrid teaching methods.
The hybrid approach includes both online and face-to face to different ratios for the delivery of contents.
However, if things get really bad because of Covid-19 health crisis, then faculty and students can switch completely to the online-only method of delivery.
Best regards
Prof. Dr. Mazin A. M. Al Janabi
Full Professor of Finance & Banking and Financial Engineering