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. 

Fun education

Education should be about having fun while learning at the same time. The learners should be enthusiastic to attend a lecture instead of being bored out their skulls. How to go about teaching should not be about making it easier for the teacher, but the emphasis should be put on the students who are the ones that who should absorb the information. For a long time now, computers have taken over the classroom and at some instances make away with physical teaching. Computers are useful tools to present a lecture, but it should not take up the bulk of the teaching experience as students sometimes loose focus. On the other hand, students prefer in many instances not to too much readings for example, and therefore would prefer to just sit at the back of the class and listen to the lecture.

From a digital perspective, it is inevitable that computers and technology will take over the classroom and there will be no space for 'naked teaching'. Computers should not be regarded as the evil of education but rather as another tool to make teaching fun and easy for both lecture and student. Through the use of technology in the classroom, the teacher can make use of different tools to educate but not to the point where teaching with computers or any other technological tools are the only method of teaching. Computers and technology take away the fun of physical teaching as teachers sometimes put up a slide and just sit back and listen with the learners and do not do actual work as it used to be done in the past when computers was not yet introduced in the classroom.

Technology and physical old school teaching should be put together to get the most out of a given lecture as well as entertain the learners in an educational way. Many of the old teachers and the ones that is new to computer use in the classroom have the idea that teaching with technology take away the social aspect of learning which is an important part of the learning process. The main idea that should be get out of this is that education should be fun, educational and convey the message which is initially intended, which is that the learners should learn.

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