Expectation Beyond Technology

Peter Blake once said, "New technology is common, new thinking is rare".

     Presenting reports through powerpoint with moving letters, pictures and other images, easier way of getting information to a particular lesson and giving emphasis in a magnified view are just some of the trends that the educators of today's generation are using inside the four-cornered classroom. Moreover, these are the bearings that the learners are exposed with. The above mentioned highlighted the disparity from yesteryear's ways of teaching in which, the students were befriended with their textbooks from the beginning to the end of the school year and circling around only on paper-pencil tests. As a facilitator and administrator of learning, I , more than anyone else should be well-rounded to the holistic development of the students especially in their academic standings through moving some steps forward in dealing with technology as a tool to improve their competencies without of course looking behind the contributions and  ideas of the traditional way of teaching. Upon taking EdTech2 as one of my subjects, I'm pretty sure enough that it will talk about computers, gadgets and other tools as a helping instrument in the field of teaching. However, instead of letting my mind be bounded with the common views about technology, I moved beyond its context to give rise  to the thought that it will be a spring board for the learners to 'level-up' their capacity to learn. With this subject, it will help me find for some resources to boost the students' interest to learn and resort to the application and longer sustainability oftheir learning. 

     It is an inevitable thought that we need technology in every classroom,in every student and teacher's hand, because it is the pen and paper of our time, and it is the lens through which we experience much of our world that will unfold innovative thinking throughout all walks of life. #