Technology in Teaching

In this contemporary world, technology has completely changed the mankind in numerous ways.

Everything we do is somehow connected with technology thus it is becoming a huge part of our day to daily life activities. Technology has variety of scope which mostly focuses to teaching and learning process.  Today, using technology as a supplementary teaching device in the classroom as an instruction is significance in most school since it avail students not only to depend on teachers teaching but also to explore from different reliable sources. Technology should be integrated as a tool to promote and expand students learning basically creativity, problem solving skill, research, collaborate and interact globally.

When people hear the term technology, everybody directly think about computers but we should bear

in mind that there are many other technologies that can be used to improve students’ learning such as ipad, laptop and smart phones. Computers in the classroom help both the teachers and students to make more interactive and it also used to educate the smarter students who easily get bored in a traditional classroom. The use of computer, laptop, mobile phone, projector and other technologies in the classroom helps student’s better understanding and improve in learning language. When I was in teaching practice, every week I took students in the school IT lab in which they can browse internet to get more information related to the topic I taught. From there, they tend to asked many questions related

to the topic which symbolize computer benefit them in learning.

Mobile Phone

Many students find school tiresome and technology gains the attention of students leading to a higher degree of motivation. When student’s daily activities are so repetitive, technology recaptures their interest and pulls them back into learning in a livelier manner. For instance; if a teacher teaches every day in traditional method, then students may feel bored and may bunk from the class whereas if teacher teach using computer then students will definitely boost their interest. If I relate with our present college life, when some

lecturers taught continuously by using chalk and board, we feel bore and when teacher asked to use mobile and browse about the particular topic then everybody became so active.

 

To integrate the computer in the classroom, I designed activity based on collaboration by using the computer and watching a short story of 5-10 minutes. I let my student to watch attentively and then individually they have to write about the story using computer. The students have to listen twice and finish their missing words or the words they could not catch up in the first place. After that, all of them got the opportunity to reorganize the story comparing and organizing among them. This activity not only builds collaboration learning using technology but also they learned about the language, pronunciation and way of writing short story.