How Does Technology Answer Teaching Purpose?

How to Apply Technology to Engage Today's Students

 

                          It's millenium, guys, technology is ever-improving. 

We are daily introduced a kaleidoscope of breathtaking technological innovations. Brain does change, for the positive or negative. And any teacher must be aware of the shift. How can we foster this change to our learners' advantage?

 

There are more questions than answers. Personally, I have searched through most of the bookshelves at major bookstores. And I would appreciate if you share online resourses you find working.

Those are the questions that make me puzzed and the sources I have found.

1. What kind of learners do we meet today in the classroom?

Chances are as a teacher you have come across the following challenges:
- their impared motivation,
- troubleshooting mode of studies, lack of continuity,
- their mental withdrawal,
- failing to recognize the relevancy of the taught content to match their lives
- health complications, behaviour disorders, ADD

Sure enough, a lot of money circulates in this controversial market of artificial stimulants and pharmaceutical industry has armoured to "get our kids straightened".

Read here to know why Europe has been slower to adopt drugs to keep children focused.

This is the other pole of the technological era side-effects which, IMHO, we need to address like homeopaths wisely introducing technological baiths to fight common attention deficit, caused by overuse of devices.

2. How a teacher can keep from becoming a fossil? Educator's fitness program.

3. Edutainment. How not to slip into either education solely and gloomy nor to entertainment with no educational gain.

 

4. Make students hoot with laughter! Education can be fun, games in class.

 

 
Implementing the above findings daily can contribute to both parties of the learning-teaching process to grow emotionally, academically and metacognitively through the effective use of common sense and digital resourses.