We've assigned the designated task to respective members in our group. As I am especially interested in the part of "role of teachers", I just downloaded some views regarding this, which I consider representative.
ROLE OF TEACHERS
The role of the teacher changes from being the “sage on the stage” to “the guide on the side”.
http://books.google.com.sg
teachers will be in due course be compelled to become competent IT users as productivity tools and to act as facilitators of learning in order to enhance the learning of their students and to assimilate and accommodate new strategies and use of media into the subject they teach.
http://eprints.qut.edu.au
An important job for all educators is to enable learners to author using the media of their time. It is not enough to teach today's children in ways we were taught because they live in a different age. Rushkoff (1996) calls them Screenagers: today's children have been "born into a culture mediated by the television and the computer" (p. 3). Screenagers participate fluidly in online, interactive digital environments and virtual spaces--the rapid-fire, nonlinear, chaotic, multisensory world of digital media. Screenagers invent uses for computers and networks that adults often do not anticipate and frequently misunderstand. What educators first assumed children needed from us--careful instruction, step-by-step activities, and computer lessons developed with a close eye to scope-and-sequence--is often exactly what gets in their way (Clifford, Friesen, & Jacobsen, 1998). At home, much like the adult work experience, today's children are multitasking and exchanging documents for social purposes using wireless networks, personal data assistants, digital video and audio devices, and distributed gaming environments. We must examine the implications of these daily interactions with technologies for schooling and for Faculties of Education. How are student teachers taught to leverage today's digital technologies for their own, and for children's, learning and collaboration needs?
http://www.questia.com
ROLE OF TEACHERS
The role of the teacher changes from being the “sage on the stage” to “the guide on the side”.
http://books.google.com.sg
teachers will be in due course be compelled to become competent IT users as productivity tools and to act as facilitators of learning in order to enhance the learning of their students and to assimilate and accommodate new strategies and use of media into the subject they teach.
http://eprints.qut.edu.au
An important job for all educators is to enable learners to author using the media of their time. It is not enough to teach today's children in ways we were taught because they live in a different age. Rushkoff (1996) calls them Screenagers: today's children have been "born into a culture mediated by the television and the computer" (p. 3). Screenagers participate fluidly in online, interactive digital environments and virtual spaces--the rapid-fire, nonlinear, chaotic, multisensory world of digital media. Screenagers invent uses for computers and networks that adults often do not anticipate and frequently misunderstand. What educators first assumed children needed from us--careful instruction, step-by-step activities, and computer lessons developed with a close eye to scope-and-sequence--is often exactly what gets in their way (Clifford, Friesen, & Jacobsen, 1998). At home, much like the adult work experience, today's children are multitasking and exchanging documents for social purposes using wireless networks, personal data assistants, digital video and audio devices, and distributed gaming environments. We must examine the implications of these daily interactions with technologies for schooling and for Faculties of Education. How are student teachers taught to leverage today's digital technologies for their own, and for children's, learning and collaboration needs?
http://www.questia.com
2 comments:
How amazing it is to say that we teachers have changed from yesterday's "sage on the stage" to today's "guide on the side"! Yes, with the increasing use of information technology in the educational course, we teachers are learning to adapt and change. IT has brought about some changes and will bring more. It's always challenging and demanding to do a good job as a teacher(or a director, facilitator, guide?). Live and learn! Let's do it!
I am deeply impressed by the expression of teachers' role from "sage on the stage" to "the guide on the side". Actually, teachers roles have changed from controllers of the classroom to monitors and facilitors.
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