I watched a video called “This will Revolutionize Education” and it was about a perspective that technology has not yet succeeded in the revolution of education. The video included the statement of others from Thomas Edison’s “The motion picture is destined to revolutionize our educational system and that in a few years, it will supplant largely, if not entirely, the use of textbooks” time to the present that technology will revolutionize education from movies to computers and YouTube to name a few. Personally, I would agree as Derek says in the video that “we can evolve education, if not revolutionize it”. Yes, because as a teacher I can only enhance my teaching strategies by showing a video to have a clearer picture of what it is like rather than replacing me with the YouTube video.
Based on aforementioned, I was really intrigued by the research behind animated pictures vs diagrams and written script. Do moving, narrated, or animated pictures better help students learn content than pictures with written script? I always assumed that the animated version would be better because it shows you how the content works or is done, but the video brought up a goal point that looking at diagrams and pictures with written text which forces the students to put the pieces together in your mind and that it could be easy to miss an important part of an animation because everything is happening at once. Here is an experience I would like to share that happened to me in my class. There was once this student who is a visual learner acknowledges and appreciates the presentation method. He understands better by watching videos, but on the other hand, another student is an auditive learner where he needs to listen and speak for him to understand. Eventually, here comes the balance teaching strategy for the teacher to pass the knowledge accordingly to the students to understand her class. Technology is important in education but essentially traditional teaching method is also needed and to stress on the teacher is also very significant in the learning process.
Check out this video for more of his thoughts on the subject: This Will Revolutionize Education (by Derek Muller)
It has become a cliché in using technology tools in the classroom that the students should understand, “it’s about the learning, not the tech”, and that’s a great thing. The mantra sticks, and it always depends given. Maybe students can use technology to help in their daily lives which would be to write a paper, check email, to conduct research, find information and to boost their general knowledge. Thus, I see technology more a tool because it is used a lot in today’s society and it would help reinforcing but personally I don’t think it would take the place of a teacher.
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