Hign tech is like a double-edged sword. It may on the one hand faciliate teaching and learning in the classroom while it may, on the other hand, cause distractions and thus affect both teachers' instructions and students' performances.
I tend to agree with Tan Dinghua that teachers should not allow students to use laptops in class since they are diverting both the teacher and the students' attention. However, asking students to shut down their computers is not a good solution, because not all the students are doing sth. unrelated to the lecture with their computers. What if a student is using his/her computer to take notes?
Therefore, high tech brings us great convenience while does us harm at the same time. Digital distraction in future classrooms of China will be the teacher's biggest headache. Actually, it has already! With so many college students own mobilephones, there is too much disturbance in classroom.
What I do in my daily teaching practice is I make it clear in my first lecture that all students must power off their mobile phones in class. The most important thing is I require myself to be a role model to them---I never brought my mobile phone to classroom and of course never talked to a mobile phone in class, which unfortunately so many young teachers do. Although there were a few times some students forgot to turn off their power, I did not give them any punishment as the sound of their MUSIC already made them embarassed since all the other students turned back and looked at them. Perhaps in future I will carry out some friendly PUNISHMENTS on my students, as what is mentioned in that article.
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Yes, I agree the word "High Tech---A double-edged sword".
China is developing too fast and most of the time we adopt western educating system without careful consideration of our social, econimic and educational conditions, then we in a haste try to deal with those unexpected problems.
Therefore, for teachers, we shoulder much responsibility for students. We teach them and show them the knowledge, at the same time, we need to guide them to become multimodal literate. We are not teaching them to remember the superficial idea underpinned in the text, we should let them know that those ideas and ideaology are existed in their social context.
We need to educate them not to take the knowledge in the textbooks for granted. They need to interprete and understand them on its social context, thus to decide and judge for their own choice.
yes, not all advanced things can be made use of without a second thinking. We should consider carefully the situation that we are going to put that tech in and figure out the expecting problems and corresponding answers.
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