2.1 Task 1
The similarities and differences found out by comparing and contrasting material from Gates’ The Road Ahead with the local teaching and learning circumstances in my university are as follows:
The similarities and differences found out by comparing and contrasting material from Gates’ The Road Ahead with the local teaching and learning circumstances in my university are as follows:
Similarities:
1. Many of the classrooms and offices have been connected to the network which enables students and teachers to communicate with their counterparts across town and around the world.
2. It is true that communication between parents and teachers has become more efficient and more frequent due to the network.
3. The classroom has expanded its walls via the information and communication links to other parts of the community and world made possible by the Information Highway. One of the schools in my university, for example, has been making good profits by opening such educational courses to faraway students.
2. It is true that communication between parents and teachers has become more efficient and more frequent due to the network.
3. The classroom has expanded its walls via the information and communication links to other parts of the community and world made possible by the Information Highway. One of the schools in my university, for example, has been making good profits by opening such educational courses to faraway students.
Differences:
There are a great many differences, some of which are as follows:
1. Gates predicts in The Road Ahead that teachers will remain centrally important but will probably spend more time with small groups of students working together using a personal computer that is connected to the network. It is not the case however in my local circumstances. The computer has not been so effectively or widely used in teaching by us.
2. The miraculous Digital White Board in The Road Ahead seems too far away for teachers in my local circumstances.
3. It is obviously hard for us to teach via multimedia as is expressed in The Road Ahead.
2 comments:
Dear Lillian,
it is our shared dream that a teacher needs to concentrate on small groups of students to enhance the learning effect.
Lillian, I also think that cerating presentations with multimedia by ourselves are impossible. But after watching presentations in the IT course, I am expecting that we can learn something new very soon, such as movie-making, etc.
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