Heyyy.
Soo I am finally able to get back on the internet after our services where changing over from ADSL to NBN. The struggle has been realll! I have previously blogged about what it would be like to do life without ICT’s and I kind of found this out this week, haha it was great.
This reminded me of an article I read from matthewscheiwe blog, stating the 5 Pros and Cons of Using Technology in your Classroom: How Much Do you Agree?, written by Sophia Harris (2015).
Some of her pros included
- Independent learning for students: where the educator could assign students to work in a group and encourage them to complete a set task by using the technology and check out on the academic queries if they arise.
- Life skills via technology: Where educators could prepare students with the vital skills like as focusing on creating presentation, maintaining proper etiquette and writing emails which could be inculcated in the classroom’s ICT equipment.
While some of the cons could include:
- Forgetting the basic ways of studying where students focus more on enhancing their knowledge in the use of the technology for even the simple problems don’t use their minds at all like they would using books.
- Disconnection with Social Media, where students’ ability to verbally communicate ideas could decline unless creating assignments in the class which are using both technology tools and oral presentations like power-points.
And I guess another con is the one i experienced this week, when the power is down, it just ain’t gonna happen!
Harris, S. (2015), 5 Pros and Cons of Using Technology in your Classroom: How Much Do you Agree?. Retrieved March 10 from: http://edtechreview.in/trends-insights/insights/2064-pros-and-cons-of-technology-in-the-classroom
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