Lesson 3 Understanding Technology Learners

Understanding Technology Learners

Lesson 3

“If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterdays, we rob them of tomorrow.”

          -         John Dewey

          For a successful outcome of the teaching and learning process, the teacher should know and understand the students well. Well enough to engage them to several lessons which are essential to learning and well enough to carry the responsibility of being the vessel of wisdom that will attain for their educational needs as they sail the vast oceans of literacy.

          In this lesson, concerns about the ways of teaching and learning were raised. It is admitted that some of the teachers today are still using the traditional education program applicable to learners of the past. They fail to realize that the new generation of the 21^st millennium is not the kind of learner that they once were, but are information technology or digital learners.

          We cannot deny the fact that there are valid concerns which must be met, and among these is the feared underdevelopment of new learners along social face-to-face interaction skills. Another is the phenomenon of the young generation taking on multi-tasking as they perform tasks simultaneously which is viewed as either detrimental since this prevents concentration and completion of specific tasks or characterizes professional work in the new world of information technology. Thus, there is a need to balance the good and detrimental changes observed among new learners of this information technology age.

          In the field of experience, my plate won’t be empty. As a teenager and as a student I have my own learning styles and own way of doing things simultaneously like most of the other individuals. Multi-tasking is a big part of being a student because either at school or at home, time is of great importance. Moreover, as what I observed from our teachers they are really trying their best to teach us with the aid of technology to satisfy our nature of being a digital or visual learner.

          In this lesson, I contemplated that our teachers either veterans or new are really trying their best to employ the perfect approaches, strategies and instructional materials for us to attain greater chances of learning a lot of things through stimulating all of our senses. Furthermore, I realized that we, students and or teachers should be responsible for our own doings such as multi-tasking because the result will depend on us; on our way of handling and perceiving things.

          In the field of application, this lesson can contribute a lot on my preparation of being a student teacher and eventually a professional teacher. It is indeed important to understand students because they are in one way or another considered as technology learners.

The teacher as the vessel of wisdom that will attain to the students' educational needs as they sail the vast oceans of literacy.