Monday, August 8, 2011

Using modern technology for students teaching...







Education is a sector also affected by advanced technologies. The use of technology in education can by useful in many ways. Actually, Internet can display a lot of widows for research like Google and WWW. The use of these tools facilitates rapidly access to the information wanted. Other tools as Podclass can be useful for student in sharing information that they downloaded. 



Students need to be captivated in education, and sometimes need to experiment what it is taught or need to see or follow the lecture progression for more understanding. Therefore, use of technology in education with recording appliances for voice recording and cameras for capturing images are tools that are important the teacher to improve his lecture. Photoshop (Gimp), Pront, photo story3 for window and Picassa are tools for pictures that the teacher can use o design his lecture to captivate his students and make the lecture more enjoyable. In this concept, there are some students that learn by what they see. Hence, use of technology in education target to help students in better learning in accordance with their way of learning. 


Technology in education is also very helpful for disabled people. For example, Audacity is a tool for voice recording. Mostly used by singer, this can help lecturer to record the lesson and a blind student can study by listening. 
In addition, Wave Pad Master makes a text into a speech for listening for disabled people. Wave Pad Master can be used for oral presentation.
Teaching with new technologies should present some limits such as a need of all appliance available on time for the lecture. Moreover, the update of the technology needs to be kept up regard to the development. Some people think that teaching with new technologies is unhelpful because students get more entertained than educated. However, a good teacher has to know his students to make his teaching competent.