Tuesday, 23 February 2016

Something I cannot stress enough about is that teachers are there to teach and be the best teachers they can be. Whether the learners are actually learning should be at the center of teaching instead of a sometimes unnecessary debate about how to teach. What is important is that the learners understand and grasp the content that is given to them and their teachers should make sure that the way it is conveyed is informative and educational seeing that teachers should inform and educate. Whether the teacher is using the black board and chalk or a YouTube video or any other digital technology to teach should not be more important then what you as the teacher expect from that learner to know at the end of the course. It is not something that one can deny that the internet and other digital tools are taking over the way teaching classes are presented. For some it is a very easy way of teaching which on the one hand can make you an out-of-touch educator, especially with the learners. Loading something online for everybody to learn from does not necessarily means that everybody is actually understanding it or learning something. For example, if you do not understand something you might not always have the time to wait for a correspondence from your lecture whom you have no interaction with and so one can suffer due to that. This becomes a problem for those educators who believe that learning should take place in the classroom with physical interaction between teacher and learner and learner and learner. Teaching online does not always take into consideration the context in which that person is receiving that teaching. The learners should be at the center when finding better ways of how to teach are on the agenda since they are the ones that is supposed to do the learning and understanding of relevant content. If the learners are placed at the center and be part of the decision making phase on how to present the teaching they might get more out of it. 

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