QUESTION:
How do teacher's personal, professional and cultural values affect the way they teach and their perception of ICT's? How are ICT's challenging these beliefs and how does this explain why some teachers are resisors of change while others are the pioneers of change?
SOURCES:
No child left untabletd
Success Stories of Technology Integration in the Classroom
Microsoft in Education
24 Piece iPad Performance In School
iPads in the classroom
1. How do teacher's personal, professional and cultural values affect the way they teach and their perception of ICT's?
After we read the articles and watch some video about the ICT. We just see that teachers have different reflections about it, positive and negative according to their own situation.
Some teachers said, "I don't want this thing to take over my classroon." and some said, "I just don't like the idea of looking at a screen and not at the students." In terms of what these teachers said, we know that they always think they are Luddites and the classroom should be a teacher-centred place. Teacher ought to be an absolutely leader that control everything in the class. They may think, it will not be at risk for their student to learn something. As a information giver, they will never lose the statu by the technology.
Some teachers said,"If you just stick a kid in front of a screen for eight hours and hope it works, it's not going to work." He means that the success of technology in education depends above all on how teachers exploit it. Like these teacher who think the technology in education just a tool for them to improve their teaching instead of for students to create a learning environment to connect all the things around them.
Others said, "Good teachers already get the 'data' that matter just by paying attention to their students, and they reach children with all kinds of learning styles. And they realized that if they don't get with this, it's going to leave them behind." As these teachers, they think the environment of classroom should be student-centred instead of teacher-centred. They instill the knowledge to the students and they want their students learn more by themselves through the ICT and also they hope meets each student where they are.
2. How are ICT's challenging these beliefs and how does this explain why some teachers are resisors of change while others are the pioneers of change?
In terms of this question, we think it relate to the culture and personal value. What's the job of teacher? Some teachers may say the school pay them money, they should do something for the school as reward. So these teacher want to control the students as the school and students are benefit from them. Then they do not want change, especially the technology sometime looks like could represent a teacher.
Others really know the teachers are not to dispense knowledge now. It's to facilitate learning. No longer is the teacher the battleneck between student and knowledge. They know the tend of the education and it is better for the students. They know their job is more architects the environment in the classroom than just represent the information. They like change, because they know the meaning of change, no change on improvement and no fail no success.
I think the traditional values is a key problem when teachers use ICT in their teaching. In Mainland China, especially in big cities, such as Guangzhou, Shenzhen, many schools have the expensive ICT equipment, however teachers don't like to use them, because teachers always consider these thinks are useless, they only want to teach their students in traditional way, at the same time, teachers would not let their students to learn through new technology.
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