That although I'm not quite a stick-in-the-mud and am fairly updated with the world's technology, I'm still not fast enough to be able to keep up with my students and what they'd be doing on the Net. I used to be a pioneer in Net language, jumped on every bandwagon - now I scratch my head at what the kids are doing. For example, I used to use Friendster (now I'm on Facebook) and I thought that Friendster was over; then I found out that Friendster's become the Singaporean Myspace and that my kids are running rampant all over it. I feel old :/
I want to understand the best ways to integrate ICT/SCL (what's with more acronyms!) into my lessons; because technology can definitely improve classes. What I don't want to do is become too reliant on technology. You know, I kinda miss the good old chalkboard and the OHP. Now we've got whiteboards and visualizers - they're all very well and good for progress of course, but I'm just a tad wistful for what's literally OLD SCHOOL.
Yup, definitely getting old.
- L: What I LEARNED this week
That the Classroom of the Future is a bit intimidating! Yet there are some things that look so incredibly fun, like the smart board.
- Q: What QUESTIONS I still have
What about schools that don't have the budget for such programs? The school I was teaching in already had quite few resources, less than I used to have in my secondary school. Would the lack of budget be disadvantageous for these kids? It's like the economic divide in that case - the rich become richer and the poor become poorer. How can we help?
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