The Kind of
Learners We Teach Today
Technology
has made the word to radically change without notice. It is technology that has
been driving much of the changes that we observe today. Many of us by the time when
we were school children; the sources of information for us were encyclopedia
and libraries. Today the internet is the major source of information for the
children we teach. With internet and the other technologies many questions can
be answered in just a matter of seconds with simple clicks. Learners today have
visited Google search engine much more often than the library. Hence it is certainly
true that more changes are yet to come. Therefore the educational system in
place must keep up with the ever changing world.
Preparing Learners for
Digital Society
I
will first consider what I need to teach and bets approach possible to organize
it into a learning experience to be shared. Like for us:
1.
The
teacher should among others use the strategy of teaching around the wheel which involves multiple modalities
throughout the digital lesson in an effort to present content using the
students' preferred approach.
2.
Use
the learning styles of visual-auditory-kinestetic which involves using multiple
intelligence data to help teach around the wheel. This method makes learning
easy and accessible.
For
the Schools:
The
learning process is now perceived nowadays as an ecological system that cuts
beyond the school i.e. it encompasses the whole environment of the student (mention:
school, family, society, networks, etc. hence the school should be able to
perform the following to succumb to this definition of the learning process.
1.
Creating
Institutional leadership by taking responsibility of leading the change of digital
technology
2. The schools should
introduce new ways of evaluation and assessment of learners since instructions
with ICT use different approaches and may not need to be evaluated using the
traditional methods.
3.
Promote
equality in digital technology by dispelling the myth of the digital native.
There should be no room created by the school for differences in children born in
digital homes or not.
Innovatives in Achieving
Digital Goals
A
major goal of digital education is for the learners to become fluent users.
Another major goal is for them to internalize digital knowledge and skills. Therefore
my essential elements for achieving these include:
1.
Finding
Out What Children Know: a sense of when and where to use the skills.
2. Instructional
Planning to Support Progress in Learning.
3.
Providing
the necessary skills so that they can use skills effortlessly and accurately.
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