Technology has been taking great strides since the historical development of the industrial revolution for several hundreds of years now. Its pace has abnormally been great in the last decade or so. It is particularly because of conveniences in using the computers. They have transformed from the naggingly bulky desktops to the handheld smartphones. Moreover, with each passing year, their efficiency has increased by leaps and bounds.
Naturally, the technological transformation has not even spared the sphere of education, only for its betterment. Learners and the trainers, pupil and the teachers alike, have been largely enthralled and fascinated by its use in teaching. For instance, apps like Google Earth, Back in Time, Stack the Countries are greatly helpful for the pupils and teachers of social studies. Similarly, their biology counterparts like Internal Organs in 3D, Scientific Binomial Names, Touch Surgery etc. do it for the students and teachers of biology. Similar is the spell that tools like Brainscape, GeometryPad, Quick Graph etc. cast over the learners and trainers of math. You name the discipline and you have the related apps and tools smartly stored in the online app market. And, the topping of the cake is that most of them are absolutely free!
But the amenities provided above are the least that students, and particularly teachers, need to adapt to. There are various other spheres where the influences of technology over teachers (particularly!), get nurtured. These spheres have been listed below with proper explanations. Hence, its high time that teachers gear up for bracing the upcoming technological storms successfully.
Tips for the teachers to get ready for the upcoming technological transformation
Don’t let your mind overpower you with its refusal for adapting to the technological change. How can a person use all other amenities of modern times be selective for some and rejective for others? If you can use great speeding cars, why detest a smartphone or a laptop? The lesson for our dear teachers here stands out to be of adapting to the technological revolution. The revolution being the one brought in the field of communication by modern tools like smartphones, smart wearable devices etc.
Most of the modern tools of communication, teaching, research etc. are quite effortless to learn to work. Be them smartphones, laptops, tablets or the latest smart wearables, are designed to be user-friendly. It is simply a matter of time that you need to invest in them. You will be limitlessly happy that you tried it with an open heart. Spend an hour or two of relaxing for the initial few days. It won’t take you long to master the technological skills. Once successful, you will usefully get addicted to modern technology.
Teachers, did you know that the panacea to all the technological ills of yours lies within your classroom? It is your students! Your students, many of whom you don’t consider even to be the jack of all the subjects (leave them being the master of some), are your one-stop solution for all the worldly-cum-technological challenges that you face. So, avail their street-smart technological skills. And from now onwards, resolve never to think low about your students, of course, saying only jokingly! Hence, what about transferring the smartphone to your students and seeing what marvels they can do for you? (And, for the shyer teachers, there also is the option of asking their nephews, nieces, and children, in their family!)
Once you’ve begun on the journey to learn the technical know-how, please STICK TO IT! And if you are failing on this front, recall the scoldings that you have innumerably delivered to your little companions for not sticking to the scheduled revision of studies in their homes (again, only joking)! Actually, what the exercise of remaining unwaveringly on your pursue will return you, is the extremely gay gift of mastering the much needed technological skills.
There have been a few days since you resolved to go for the technological training, therefore, it would be wiser for you to approach the mastery of the skill steadily and slowly! Stop yourself from getting too much blown away by the wind of the great change that you are feeling! Prevent yourself from the trap of getting heavily entangled in the net of greed thrown by the lucre of Social Media apps like Facebook, WhatsApp, Twitter etc. The lesson lies in progressing slowly and steadily for your goal. Don’t bother, have patience! After all, it was you only who had earlier learned and used other technological marvels like cars, motorbikes, televisions etc. before the advent of mobile phones. If you could do it then, how come it isn’t possible again?
On writing on the ways to develop friendliness with the modern technology for teachers, we have tried to pacify fear of technology-shy teachers. With some of the honest efforts of yours and some of the courage by reading this article, we hope your cruise along the sea of technology will be extremely productive. It’s all over from us now. Many many thanks for a patient read. Happy learning teachers!
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