A number of years have passed since the publication of Gates’ book. Concerning about my teaching situation, I am thinking of the following similarities and differences.
1. Similarities
a. Items like networks, multimedia presentation tools are now used in my teaching situation , but they are only limited in some particular courses.
b. We have school network in which teachers and students can share information and educational material to some extent.
c. IT makes learning and teaching more interesting and motivation and converts learners from passive to active learners.
d. When IT is used wisely, it can save teachers time and physical effort.
e. Some teachers use PPT to present their teaching materials and apply some of the on-line resources as teaching material in which the classroom is more learner-centered.
2. Differences
a. The majority of teachers and students are not psychologically and technologically ready for the changes ahead.
b. Some teachers just simply convert print-based resources into digital format.
c. Many teachers and students don’t know how to find and apply rich and useful e-resources in their teaching and learning.
d. Many teachers need training in exploiting and managing IT to its fullest.
e. For teachers and students, they are not aware of the Digital literacy which related to plagiarism.
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I think you have a very clear and detailed intructioin to the situation of teaching in your univeristy. Besides, you analyzed some advantages and disadvantages of the situation. I think we may have a lot to talk about the topic.
You said "IT makes learning and teaching more interesting and motivation and converts learners from passive to active learners". But I cannot agree with you at this point. Many teachers complained that at the very beginning it is true that the students are highly motivated and eager to use IT to help with their language learning. After a while, their enthusiasm decrease greatly. Do you happen to meet with the same problem in your teaching? Then how do you solve it?
Secondly, you said "When IT is used wisely, it can save teachers time and physical effort". But what I see is that quite many teachers simply understand that using PPT to present their teaching materials means applying IT to language teaching. Making good PPT does takes a teacher a lot of effort and time. Why do you say "save time and physical effort"? Could you explain? If in the sense that some teachers make use of the same PPT stuff to teach different group of students year after year without much changes, then it is "saving time and physical effort". Unfortunately, this is not what we expect, don't we?
The third point I want to discuss with you is you said using PPT makes class more learner-centered, while what we often see is rather on the contrary: it is the teacher keeps on talking and showing slides in the front instead of students invovlment in discussion or participation. I'd say it is more like teacher-centered rather than learner-centered.
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