2009年4月2日星期四

Good technology means good writing class?

I find Hoy's article very easy to read and I really like the way students, teachers and pedagogy are put. The success of writing class with technology depends on the understanding of the students and students' need. The teachers' position is also important to facilitate effective and efficient learning. Traditional classroom attracts the attention of students with little or no help of technology. The focus is on the teacher, and the students have to pay attention or draw attention to the class. Comparing with technology rich classes, the traditional classes are boring and don't get students' full participation in the learning process. On the other hand, technology rich classes offer the teachers new methods to conduct the teaching. Students are exposed visual, audio resources that are easy for them to get interested in. But the control of technology to work for, not against the class objective might be problematic for some teachers. There are times that technology will not work, there are times teachers are not ready to make the switch from the traditional pedagogy to new ones. With all sorts of problems that may happen in the class, it is not easy to say that good technology will guarantee good writing class.

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