I believe that Dr. Zhao has good ideas and brings up valid points in theory but it is very different to put them in place. Unfortunately the way that we teachers were educated to teach is becoming extinct. Teacher training needs to be upgraded and all of these digital methods need to be taught before the teacher leaves college. They should be walking out knowing this technology and knowing how to implement the digital resource methods within the classroom.
Current teachers were not educated this way and will have a very hard time “catching up”. It would be great to train teachers to use these methods to teach more affectively to students in the digital era. Our education system needs an overhaul and needs to stop requiring teachers to teach to all of these paper tests. Outcomes should be assessed in new ways if teaching needs to travel in new directions.
The changes need to not only happen at teacher level but also from national and state levels. Technology and collaborative methods of teaching need to become not only a focus, but a priority. Students need to be able to be responsible for more action in there learning and we need to stop spoon feeding them. The way students will learn best is through methods that they are not only familiar with but are already experts in!!!
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"Students need to be able to be responsible for more action in there learning and we need to stop spoon feeding them."
I agree with this statement strongly. I work with many students that can't think their way out of a box, in part because we haven't taught them to. One of my children verbalize that she didn't need to think because the teachers told her everything that she needed to know. What does that say about us as teachers?
I also agree with your opinions about the difficulty in catching up with the teaching of the teachers. I am curious if college programs in education are teaching their courses with the connection and application of technology when teaching the necessary state curriculum.
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